Richard Brookhiser

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1. Richard Brookhiser

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

2. Joseph J. Ellis

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

3. Thomas J. Fleming

   Author of Liberty!: The American Revolution, Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America, Washington's Secret War

4. H. W. Brands

   Author of The First American, Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times, The Last Romantic

5. Gordon S. Wood

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

6. John Ferling

   Author of Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence, Setting the World Ablaze: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and the American Revolution

7. David McCullough

   Author of John Adams, Truman

8. Robert V. Remini

   Author of Henry Clay; Statesman for the Union, John Quincy Adams, The House

9. William F. Buckley, Jr.

   Author of God and Man at Yale, Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography, Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative Thought

10. Paul Johnson

    Author of Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky, Creators, George Washington: The Founding Father

11. Harlow Giles Unger

    Author of The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness, Lion of Liberty: Patrick Henry and the Call to a New Nation, American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution

12. Catherine Drinker Bowen

    Author of Miracle At Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention May - September 1787, John Adams and the American Revolution

13. David Herbert Donald

    Author of Lincoln, We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends

14. Andrew Burstein

    Author of The Passions of Andrew Jackson, Madison and Jefferson

15. Ron Chernow

    Author of Alexander Hamilton, Washington: A Life

16. James F. Simon

    Author of What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States, Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession, and the President's War Powers

17. David Hackett Fischer

    Author of Washington's Crossing, Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History of America's Founding Ideas (America: a Cultural History)

18. Garry Wills

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

19. Jack N. Rakove

    Author of Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America

20. Edmund Morris

    Author of Theodore Rex, Colonel Roosevelt