Michael Beschloss
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Beschloss has completed two books in a trilogy on President Johnson's secret tapes, Taking Charge (1997) and Reaching for Glory (2001), which were both national bestsellers. His first book, Kennedy and Roosevelt: The Uneasy Alliance (1980), started as his senior honors thesis at Williams College. His book The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963 (1991) won the Ambassador Book Prize and was called by the New Yorker the "definitive" book on President Kennedy and the Cold War.
Beschloss wrote the essay on President George W. Bush for the book Character Above All and participated in the 1996 PBS television adaptation of that book. He served as chief historical adviser and appeared in a 1994 two-part documentary on President Eisenhower, which aired on The American Experience series. He also appeared in the PBS documentary The Kennedys in 1992.
As literary executor for the late Newsweek columnist Meg Greenfield, he edited her posthumously published book Washington (2001), which was a New York Times bestseller. He is now working on a history of President Lincoln's last days and his assassination.
Beschloss holds degrees from Williams College and Harvard University. He has held appointments in history at the Smithsonian Institution, St. Antony's College, Oxford University and the Harvard University Russian Research Center.