Ken Ackerman is the author of “Young J. Edgar: Hoover and the Red Scare, 1919-1920″ (Viral History Press) , a book that partly inspired the recent film J. Edgar, directed by Clint Eastwood.  Ackerman has authored three previous books, including one on Boss Tweed, and another on President James Garfield.  Ken Ackerman, a writer and [...]

Steve Coll is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning author and journalist, whose latest book, “Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power” (Penguin Press), investigates the notoriously secretive ExxonMobil Corporation, revealing the true extent of its power. Coll is president of New America Foundation, and a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. Previously he spent 20 years as a [...]

Clint Hill was a Secret Service Agent assigned to the White House and served Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Ford.  He was in the motorcade in Dallas on November 22, 1963, assigned to protect First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, when President Kennedy was assassinated.  He is credited with saving Mrs. Kennedy’s life. After rising through [...]

Gregg Jones is the author of “Honor in the Dust: Theodore Roosevelt, War in the Philippines, and the Rise and Fall of America’s Imperial Dream” (NAL Hardcover).  A Missouri native, Jones was a Pulitzer Prize-finalist investigative reporter and foreign correspondent before writing books full time. He has been a staff writer for the Los Angeles [...]

Marvin and Deborah Kalb are a father-daughter journalism team who joined forces to write their new book, “Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama” (Brookings Institution Press). Marvin Kalb’s journalism career covers 30 years of award-winning reporting and commentary for CBS and NBC News, including a stint as host of Meet the [...]

Kitty Kelley is an internationally acclaimed author whose last five books reached number one on The New York Times Best Seller List.  Her latest book is “Capturing Camelot: The Iconic Images of Stanley Tretick”, and in 2013 she will publish “Let Freedom Ring” to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.   She’s [...]

Linda Killian, author of “The Swing Vote: The Untapped Power of Independents” (St. Martin’s Press), is a Washington journalist and a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She is a columnist and national political writer for The Atlantic, Newsweek/The Daily Beast and has also written for Politico, Politics Daily and U.S. News & World Report.com. Her television appearances include MSNBC, Fox News, C-SPAN, CNN, and ”Hardball.” She [...]

Jim Lehrer is best known as the former news anchor for “NewsHour” on PBS and for his role as a frequent debate moderator during presidential elections. He has written 28 non-fiction and fiction books, drawing from his experiences and interests in history and politics. In his latest book, “Tension City: Inside the Presidential Debates, from [...]

Timothy Noah writes the TRB column for the New Republic. He wrote for Slate for a dozen years, and previously worked at the Wall Street Journal, U.S. News & World Report, and the Washington Monthly. Noah received the 2011 Hillman Prize for public service magazine journalism for the series in Slate that forms the basis [...]

David O. Stewart is a historian whose third book, “American Emperor: Aaron Burr’s Challenge to Jefferson’s America” (Simon & Schuster), tells the story of America’s third Vice President as a daring, and perhaps deluded, figure who shook the nation’s foundations in its earliest, most vulnerable decades. The book follows his well-received books, “The Summer of 1787” [...]

Evan Thomas is the author of eight books, including “The War Lovers,” The New York Times best-seller “Sea of Thunder,” and his latest, “Ike’s Bluff: President Eisenhower’s Secret Battle to Save the World.” He frequently appears as a commentator on TV and radio, and he teaches writing at Princeton. Evan was editor-at-large of Newsweek until he [...]

Brent Wolfingbarger is the author of “The Dirty Secret” (Smallridge Publishing), a political thriller about two star-crossed former lovers from opposite sides of the political fence who are drawn back together by a legal battle over the closest presidential election in history, where the difference between victory and defeat in the Electoral College comes down [...]