A Rhodes Scholar and a decorated army officer, Josiah Bunting III served in Vietnam and was superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute for eight years. He is the author of the novels All Loves Excelling, The Lionheads, The Advent of Frederick Giles, and An Education for Our Time. Bunting is also a classical pianist and a long-distance runner. He lives in Newport, Rhode Island.
A Rhodes Scholar and a decorated Army officer,
JOSIAH BUNTING, III served in Vietnam and served for eight years as superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute. He is the author of the biography
Ulysses S. Grant for the American Presidents Series. He lives in Newport, Rhode Island.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., (1917-2007) was the preeminent political historian of our time. For more than half a century, he was a cornerstone figure in the intellectual life of the nation and a fixture on the political scene. He won two Pulitzer prizes for
The Age of Jackson (1946) and
A Thousand Days (1966), and in 1988 received the National Humanities Medal. He published the first volume of his autobiography,
A Life in the Twentieth Century, in 2000.