Ron Chernow

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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

2. Joseph J. Ellis

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

3. 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

4. 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

5. Gordon S. Wood

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

6. Edmund Morris

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

7. 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

8. 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
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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. Walter Isaacson

    Author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, Kissinger: A Biography

11. James M. McPherson

    Author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief

12. David Hackett Fischer

    Author of Washington's Crossing, Champlain's dream

13. John Ferling

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

14. Nathaniel Philbrick

    Author of Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, The Last Stand : Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn

15. David Herbert Donald

    Author of Lincoln

16. Jon Meacham

    Author of American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

17. Stacy Schiff

    Author of A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America

18. David Halberstam

    Author of The Best and the Brightest, The Fifties, The Reckoning

19. Daniel Walker Howe

    Author of What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848

20. Robert Middlekauff

    Author of The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789