James C. Humes

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1. Winston S. Churchill

   Author of The Gathering Storm, A history of the English-speaking peoples, Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches

2. Martin Gilbert

   Author of The First World War: A Complete History, Churchill: A Life, In Search of Churchill: A Historian's Journey

3. William Manchester

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4. James C. Humes

   Author of The Wit & Wisdom of Winston Churchill, Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln: 21 Powerful Secrets of History's Greatest Speakers, The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln

5. Edward Steers

   Author of Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln Legends: Myths, Hoaxes, and Confabulations Associated with Our Greatest President, The Lincoln Assassination Encyclopedia

6. Randolph S. Churchill

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7. Harold Holzer

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8. Richard Nixon

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9. David Herbert Donald

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10. Benjamin Franklin

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11. Robert A. Caro

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12. Paul Johnson

    Author of Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky, Napoleon

13. John Keegan

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

14. Richard Dowis

    Author of The Lost Art of the Great Speech: How to Write One--How to Deliver It

15. James M. McPherson

    Author of Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution, To the Best of My Ability: The American Presidents, Gettysburg: The Paintings of Mort Kunstler

16. John Gabriel Hunt

    Author of Essential Abraham Lincoln, The Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents: Revised and Updated

17. Forrest C. Pogue

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18. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

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19. Jerry Weissman

    Author of The Power Presenter: Technique, Style, and Strategy from America's Top Speaking Coach

20. Roy Jenkins

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