Harold Evans

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1. The American Society of Magazine Editors

   Author of The Best American Magazine Writing 2003, The Best American Magazine Writing 2002, The Best American Magazine Writing 2000

2. 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

3. Daniel J. Boorstin

   Author of The Seekers: The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World, The Americans: The Democratic Experience, The Americans: The National Experience

4. Geoffrey C. Ward

   Author of The West: An Illustrated History, Jazz; A History of America’s Music, The Best American Essays 1996

5. Harold Evans

   Author of The American Century, Good Times, Bad Times, Pictures on a Page: Photo-Journalism, Graphics and Picture Editing

6. James M. McPherson

   Author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, To the Best of My Ability: The American Presidents

7. H. W. Brands

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8. John Keegan

   Author of The First World War, The Second World War

9. Peter Guralnick

   Author of Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley

10. David Halberstam

    Author of The Best and the Brightest, The Fifties

11. John Simpson

    Author of A Mad World, My Masters: Tales from a Traveller's Life, Strange Places, Questionable People, News from No Man's Land: Reporting the World

12. Library of America

    Author of Reporting World War II Part Two: American Journalism 1944-46 (Library of America), Reporting World War II Vol. 1: American Journalism 1938-1944 (Library of America)

13. David M. Kennedy

    Author of Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

14. Eudora Welty

    Author of Eudora Welty : Complete Novels: The Robber Bridegroom, Delta Wedding, The Ponder Heart, Losing Battles, The Optimist's D, Eudora Welty : Stories, Essays & Memoir (Library of America, 102)

15. Doris Kearns Goodwin

    Author of No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II

16. Theodore Draper

    Author of A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution

17. Joy Hakim

    Author of Freedom: A History of US

18. Nan Robertson

    Author of The Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men, and the New York Times

19. Robert Hughes, 1938-

    Author of American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America

20. George Washington

    Author of George Washington : Writings (Library of America)