David Davenport is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he has also served as counselor to the director and director of Washington, D.C., programs. He previously served as president of Pepperdine University, where he was also a professor of law and public policy. He is a regular columnist for Forbes.com and has previously been a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and Scripps Howard News Service. He is also a contributing editor to Townhall.com and delivers regular radio commentaries on the Salem Radio Network. He and Gordon Lloyd co-authored The New Deal and Modern American Conservatism: A Defining Rivalry. He has contributed chapters to Hoover Press books, articles for Policy Review, Defining Ideas, and the Hoover Digest, and is co-author of the book Shepherd Leadership.
Gordon Lloyd is a senior fellow at the Ashbrook Center and the Dockson Professor Emeritus of Public Policy at Pepperdine University. He is co-author of three books on the American founding and is editor of James Madison’s Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787. He is the co-author, with David Davenport, of The New Deal and Modern American Conservatism: A Defining Rivalry and author-collaborator on three books on political economy. He is also the creator of four websites on the creation and ratification of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. He also serves on the National Advisory Council for the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Presidential Learning Center through the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation.