Joseph J. Ellis

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1. Joseph J. Ellis

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

2. 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

3. Gordon S. Wood

   Author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, The American Revolution; a History

4. Stephen E. Ambrose

   Author of Undaunted Courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West, Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869

5. Edmund Morris

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

6. John Ferling

   Author of Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, A Leap in the Dark, John Adams: A Life

7. 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

8. H. W. Brands

   Author of The First American, Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times, Benjamin Franklin (Portable Professor)

9. 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

10. Ron Chernow

    Author of Alexander Hamilton, Washington: A Life

11. Jon Meacham

    Author of American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship

12. James M. McPherson

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

13. Walter Isaacson

    Author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

14. Jay Winik

    Author of April 1865: The Month That Saved America, The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800

15. David Hackett Fischer

    Author of Washington's Crossing, Paul Revere's Ride

16. Bernard Bailyn

    Author of The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders, The Origins of American Politics

17. Garry Wills

    Author of Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America, Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, James Madison

18. 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

19. Alexander Hamilton

    Author of The Federalist Papers

20. Pauline Maier

    Author of American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence, Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788, From Resistance to Revolution