Brian Lamb

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1. Brian Lamb

   Author of Booknotes: Stories from American History, Booknotes : Life Stories : Notable Biographers on the People Who Shaped America, Booknotes on American Character: People, Politics, and Conflict in American History

2. Nicholas A. Basbanes

   Author of A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books, A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World, Among the Gently Mad: Strategies and Perspectives for the Book-Hunter in the 21st Century

3. 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

4. Gabor S. Boritt

   Author of The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows, Lincoln, the War President, The Historian's Lincoln: Pseudohistory, Psychohistory, and History

5. Daniel J. Boorstin

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

6. Lawrence Goldstone

   Author of Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World, Slightly Chipped: Footnotes in Booklore, Warmly Inscribed

7. Michael Dirda

   Author of Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life, Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-Volume Literary Education, An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland

8. Stephen E. Ambrose

   Author of Undaunted Courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West, Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869, To America : Personal Reflections of an Historian

9. James M. McPherson

   Author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief, To the Best of My Ability: The American Presidents

10. Joseph J. Ellis

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

11. David Herbert Donald

    Author of Lincoln, We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends, Lincoln in the Times: The Life of Abraham Lincoln, as Originally Reported in The New York Times

12. Harold Holzer

    Author of Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President, Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861

13. Paul F. Boller

    Author of Presidential Anecdotes, Presidential Campaigns

14. Allen C. Guelzo

    Author of Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America

15. Tom Raabe

    Author of Biblioholism: The Literary Addiction

16. David Halberstam

    Author of The Fifties, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War, The Powers That Be

17. Ronald C. White Jr.

    Author of A. Lincoln: A Biography, Lincoln's Greatest Speech : The Second Inaugural

18. Henry Petroski

    Author of The Book on the Bookshelf

19. Ronald B. Shwartz

    Author of For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most

20. Shelby Foote

    Author of The Civil War, a narrative : Fort Sumter to Perryville, The Civil War, a narrative : Red River to Appomattox, The Civil War, A Narrative: Fredericksburg to Meridian