Haynes Johnson

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1. Bob Woodward

   Author of Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987, Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate, The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House

2. Haynes Johnson

   Author of Sleepwalking Through History: America in the Reagan Years, The Best of Times: America in the Clinton Years, The System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point

3. David Halberstam

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

4. Kevin Phillips

   Author of American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush, Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich, The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath

5. 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

6. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

   Author of A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House, The Coming of the New Deal, 1933-1935 (The Age of Roosevelt, Vol. 2), The Cycles of American History

7. Theodore H. White

   Author of The Making of the President 1960, The Making of the President 1964, The Making of the President 1972

8. 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, A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon

9. Frances FitzGerald

   Author of Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam, Way Out There In the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War

10. Molly Ivins

    Author of Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America, Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush

11. Joe Conason

    Author of Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth, The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton

12. Garry Wills

    Author of A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government, Certain Trumpets: The Nature of Leadership, Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man

13. Rick Perlstein

    Author of Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

14. Jonathan Alter

    Author of The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope, The Promise: President Obama, Year One

15. Taylor Branch

    Author of Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63, The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President

16. Sidney Blumenthal

    Author of The Clinton Wars

17. James B. Stewart

    Author of Den of Thieves, Blood Sport: The Truth Behind the Scandals in the Clinton White House

18. Stephen E. Ambrose

    Author of The Victors : Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II, To America : Personal Reflections of an Historian

19. H. R. Haldeman

    Author of The Ends of Power, The Haldeman Diaries: Inside the Nixon White House

20. Michael R. Beschloss

    Author of The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945, The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963