Brian VanDeMark teaches history at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis. He has lectured throughout the world, including at Oxford, where he was a Visiting Fellow at St. Catherine’s College and the Rothermere American Institute. He coauthored Robert S. McNamara’s #1 bestseller, In Retrospect, and assisted Clark Clifford with his bestseller, Counsel to the President. His Into the Quagmire, published by Oxford University Press, is one of the classic works on Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam.