A Pulitzer Prize-winner, Stacy Schiff is the author, most recently, of “The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams,” hailed as “enthralling” by The New York Times, a “tour de force” by The Wall Street Journal, “superb” by NPR and as “wildly entertaining” by The New Yorker. “The Revolutionary” appeared on most 2022 best-of lists, including The Wall Street Journal’s Top Ten Books of the Year and President Obama’s “Favorite Books of 2022.” Winner of the Colonial Dames of America Book Award, “The Revolutionary” was a finalist for the George Washington Book Prize.

Schiff’s other titles include “Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov),” winner of the Pulitzer Prize; “Saint-Exupéry,” a Pulitzer Prize finalist; and “A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America,” winner of the George Washington Book Prize, the Ambassador Award in American Studies and the Gilbert Chinard Prize of the Institut Français d’Amérique.

Allen Guelzo is the Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar and director of the James Madison Program Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship

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