H. W. Brands

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1. David McCullough

   Author of John Adams, The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
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2. H. W. Brands

   Author of The First American, Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times, The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream

3. Joseph J. Ellis

   Author of Founding Brothers, His Excellency: George Washington, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson

4. Edmund Morris

   Author of Theodore Rex, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Colonel Roosevelt

5. Ron Chernow

   Author of Alexander Hamilton, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family

6. James M. McPherson

   Author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War

7. Gordon S. Wood

   Author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, Revolutionary Characters

8. Douglas Brinkley

   Author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America, Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress, Gerald R. Ford

9. Stephen E. Ambrose

   Author of Undaunted Courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West, Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869

10. John Ferling

    Author of Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, A Leap in the Dark, Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence

11. Doris Kearns Goodwin

    Author of Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II

12. Daniel J. Boorstin

    Author of The Americans: The Colonial Experience, The Americans: The National Experience

13. Robert A. Caro

    Author of Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson

14. Robert Dallek

    Author of Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973, Lone Star Rising, To Lead a Nation: The Presidency in the Twentieth Century

15. Jean Edward Smith

    Author of FDR, Grant

16. Thomas J. Fleming

    Author of Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America, Washington's Secret War, The Perils of Peace: America's Struggle for Survival After Yorktown

17. David Hackett Fischer

    Author of Washington's Crossing, Historians' Fallacies : Toward a Logic of Historical Thought, Champlain's dream

18. Richard Brookhiser

    Author of Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, American, America's First Dynasty : The Adamses, 1735--1918

19. Garry Wills

    Author of Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America, James Madison

20. James MacGregor Burns

    Author of Vineyard of Liberty, George Washington (The American Presidents), Three Roosevelts