Michael Mandelbaum

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1. Thomas L. Friedman

   Author of The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization, Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America, Longitudes and Attitudes: The World in the Age of Terrorism

2. Michael Mandelbaum

   Author of The Ideas that Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-first Century, The Case For Goliath: How America Acts As The World's Government in the Twenty-first Century

3. Daniel Yergin

   Author of The Commanding Heights : The Battle for the World Economy, The Quest: The Global Race for Energy, Security, and Power

4. Michael Lewis

   Author of Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World

5. Tom Brokaw

   Author of The Time of Our Lives: Past, Present, Promise

6. Ron Suskind

   Author of Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

7. Bill Clinton

   Author of Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy

8. David McCullough

   Author of The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

9. Walter Russell Mead

   Author of Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World, Power, Terror, Peace, and War: America's Grand Strategy in a World at Risk

10. Daniel Kahneman

    Author of Thinking, fast and slow

11. Niall Ferguson

    Author of Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power, Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire, The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000

12. Candice Millard

    Author of Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

13. Christin Ditchfield

    Author of Volleyball (True Books: Sports), Gymnastics (True Books)

14. Robert Kagan

    Author of Of Paradise and Power, Dangerous Nation

15. Stephen Greenblatt

    Author of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

16. Charles C. Mann

    Author of 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

17. Walter Isaacson

    Author of Steve Jobs

18. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

    Author of Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy

19. Robert D. Kaplan

    Author of Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos, Imperial Grunts: On the Ground with the American Military, from Mongolia to the Philippines to Iraq and Beyond, Monsoon: the Indian Ocean and the future of American power

20. Andrew J. Bacevich

    Author of Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War, American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy