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1. Barbara W. Tuchman

   Author of The Guns of August, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45

2. David Halberstam

   Author of The Best and the Brightest, War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals, The Powers That Be

3. Neil Sheehan

   Author of A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam, The Pentagon Papers: As Published by the New York Times

4. Robert A. Caro

   Author of Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson

5. Taylor Branch

   Author of Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65

6. Stanley Karnow

   Author of Vietnam: A History

7. William Manchester

   Author of American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964, The Arms of Krupp, 1587-1968

8. Eric Foner

   Author of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, The Story of American Freedom

9. Garry Wills

   Author of Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America, Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government

10. Richard Hofstadter

    Author of Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, The Age of Reform, Social Darwinism in American Thought

11. Bernard B. Fall

    Author of Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu

12. Paul Fussell

    Author of Class: A Guide Through the American Status System, Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War

13. Theodore H. White

    Author of The Making of the President 1960, In Search of History: A Personal Adventure

14. Alistair Horne

    Author of A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962

15. David Fromkin

    Author of A peace to end all peace

16. John Keegan

    Author of The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme

17. David Remnick

    Author of Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire

18. Sean Wilentz

    Author of The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008

19. Michael Herr

    Author of Dispatches

20. Philip Caputo

    Author of A Rumor of War