ABOUT THE AUTHORS

James MacGregor Burns is the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Government Emeritus at Williams College and a senior scholar at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond. He is the author of numerous books, including Transforming Leadership: A New Pursuit of Happiness, Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom. He is a past president of the American Political Science Association.

Susan Dunn is Professor of Humanities at Williams College. She is the author of many books, including Sister Revolutions: French Lightning, American Light, The Deaths of Louis XVI, and The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America (with James MacGregor Burns). Burns and Dunn live in Williamstown, Massachusetts.