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H.W. Brands is a Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. Bill is a two-time Pulitzer Prize Finalist who will discuss his biography Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times. Andrew Jackson was the first populist president. He attacked the established norms for governing and that caused turmoil in Washington. Several of my friends have commented on the similarities between Jackson and Trump, so I thought it would be worthwhile to do a podcast and dig deep into the history to see what relevance there might have for today's politics. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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It might well be on its way to becoming the most widely read Torah commentary of our time—and by non-Jews as well as by Jews." — Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, bestselling author of Jewish Literacy Why do so many people think the Bible, the most influential book in world history, is outdated? Why do our friends and neighbors – and sometimes we ourselves – dismiss the Bible as irrelevant, irrational, immoral, or all of these things? This explanation of the Book of Exodus, the second book of the Bible, will demonstrate that the Bible is not only powerfully relevant to today’s issues, but completely consistent with rational thought. Do you think the Bible permitted the trans-Atlantic slave trade? You won’t after reading this book. Do you struggle to love your parents? If you do, you need this book. Do you doubt the existence of God because belief in God is “irrational?” This book will give you reason after reason to rethink your doubts. The title of this commentary is, “The Rational Bible” because its approach is entirely reason-based. The reader is never asked to accept anything on faith alone. As Prager says, “If something I write does not make rational sense, I have not done my job.” The Rational Bible is the fruit of Dennis Prager’s forty years of teaching the Bible to people of every faith, and no faith. On virtually every page, you will discover how the text relates to the contemporary world and to your life. His goal: to change your mind – and then change your life. Highly Recommended by ACU.Purchase his book at-https://www.amazon.com/Rational-Bible-Exodus-Dennis-Prager/dp/1621577724  The Rational Bible: Genesis by Dennis Prager USA Today bestsellerPublishers Weekly bestsellerWall Street Journal bestseller Many people today think the Bible, the most influential book in world history, is not only outdated but irrelevant, irrational, and even immoral. 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On June 6, we will be reviewing a book on the 7 th President. It is readable, but long and we suggest getting started right away.

There's more mudslinging going on. This time, it's the ladies' turn. Join us as we discuss... Andrew Jackson's first term as President, the Eaton/Petticoat Affair, "treaties" with the Native Americans, Andrew Jackson's reelection, and more! Further Reading... Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times The Petticoat Affair: Manners, Mutiny, and Sex in Andrew Jackson's White House ________________________ Be sure to subscribe to the show! Leave us a review on iTunes - It really helps us out! Facebook  |  Twitter  | Instagram ________________________ Sign up for the Social Media Success Summit today! ________________________ Election College is recorded using Audacity and produced with help from the BossJock for iPad App. ________________________ Get a free month of Audible and a free audiobook to keep at ElectionCollege.com/Audible ________________________ Get $10 free from Canva at ElectionCollege.com/Canva! ________________________ Make sure you sign up for our newsletter for news, resources, freebies, and more! ElectionCollege.com/Newsletter ________________________  Music from: http://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music ________________________ Some links in these show notes are affiliate links that could monetarily benefit Election College, but cost you nothing extra. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nothing make an election more fun than a little mudslinging and talking bad about someone's wife, right? Join us as we discuss... John Quincy "Q" Adams trivia, political mudslinging, the introduction of modern campaigning, Andrew Jackson's election, and more! Further Reading... Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times The Birth of Modern Politics: Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828 ________________________ Be sure to subscribe to the show! Leave us a review on iTunes - It really helps us out! Facebook  |  Twitter  | Instagram ________________________ Sign up for the Social Media Success Summit today! ________________________ Election College is recorded using Audacity and produced with help from the BossJock for iPad App. ________________________ Get a free month of Audible and a free audiobook to keep at ElectionCollege.com/Audible This week, we recommend Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times ________________________ Get $10 free from Canva at ElectionCollege.com/Canva! ________________________ Make sure you sign up for our newsletter for news, resources, freebies, and more! ElectionCollege.com/Newsletter ________________________  Music from: http://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music ________________________ Some links in these show notes are affiliate links that could monetarily benefit Election College, but cost you nothing extra. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"I believe in democracy and I believe democracy works best if there's an awareness of what's come before," said H. W. Brands in an interview.* "Otherwise we try to reinvent the wheel." His belief in the promise of democracy is why Dr. Brand's books appear as often in the aisles of Barnes & Noble as the stacks of colleges and universities. It also accounts for his continuing desire to travel around the country, lecturing to capacity audiences, and to teach survey courses to packed auditoriums of undergraduate students. "I want to make my classrooms as big as possible," said Brands. "The more people I can fit, the better." Dr. Brands, the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History and professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin, has won numerous teaching awards for courses on U.S. history and international relations. Holding Bachelor's and Doctoral degrees in history from Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin, respectively, as well as Master's degrees in liberal studies and mathematics from Reed College and Portland State University, Brands began his career teaching high school and community college students. He later taught at Vanderbilt University and, for 23 years, Texas A & M University before returning to Austin in 2005. Dr. Brands has written twenty books and coauthored or edited five others. His books include: Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times (Doubleday, 2005) Woodrow Wilson (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2003) The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream (Doubleday, 2002) The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (Doubleday, 2000) What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy (Cambridge UP, 1998) TR: The Last Romantic (Basic Books, 1997) His writings have received critical and popular acclaim. The First American was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Prize, as well as a New York Times bestseller. The Age of Gold was a Washington Post Best Book of 2002 and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Andrew Jackson was a Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2005 and a Washington Post bestseller. What America Owes the World was a finalist for the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes and the Lionel Gelber Prize in international affairs. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, National Interest, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Political Science Quarterly, American History, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and many other newspapers, magazines and journals. Dr. Brands is an elected member of various honorary societies, including the Society of American Historians and the Philosophical Society of Texas. He is associate editor for Presidential Studies Quarterly and serves on the editorial board for Rhetoric and Public Affairs. He is a regular guest on national radio and television programs, and is frequently interviewed by the American and foreign press. His writings have been published in several countries and translated into German, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Dr. Brands was born in Portland, Oregon, where he lived until he went to California for college. After graduating he became a traveling salesman, with a territory that spanned the West from the Pacific to Colorado. His wanderlust diminished after several trips across the Great Basin, and he turned to sales of a different sort, namely teaching. He lives in Austin with his wife and their youngest child.

"I believe in democracy and I believe democracy works best if there's an awareness of what's come before," said H. W. Brands in an interview.* "Otherwise we try to reinvent the wheel." His belief in the promise of democracy is why Dr. Brand's books appear as often in the aisles of Barnes & Noble as the stacks of colleges and universities. It also accounts for his continuing desire to travel around the country, lecturing to capacity audiences, and to teach survey courses to packed auditoriums of undergraduate students. "I want to make my classrooms as big as possible," said Brands. "The more people I can fit, the better." Dr. Brands, the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History and professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin, has won numerous teaching awards for courses on U.S. history and international relations. Holding Bachelor's and Doctoral degrees in history from Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin, respectively, as well as Master's degrees in liberal studies and mathematics from Reed College and Portland State University, Brands began his career teaching high school and community college students. He later taught at Vanderbilt University and, for 23 years, Texas A & M University before returning to Austin in 2005. Dr. Brands has written twenty books and coauthored or edited five others. His books include: Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times (Doubleday, 2005) Woodrow Wilson (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2003) The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream (Doubleday, 2002) The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (Doubleday, 2000) What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy (Cambridge UP, 1998) TR: The Last Romantic (Basic Books, 1997) His writings have received critical and popular acclaim. The First American was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Prize, as well as a New York Times bestseller. The Age of Gold was a Washington Post Best Book of 2002 and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Andrew Jackson was a Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2005 and a Washington Post bestseller. What America Owes the World was a finalist for the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes and the Lionel Gelber Prize in international affairs. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, National Interest, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Political Science Quarterly, American History, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and many other newspapers, magazines and journals. Dr. Brands is an elected member of various honorary societies, including the Society of American Historians and the Philosophical Society of Texas. He is associate editor for Presidential Studies Quarterly and serves on the editorial board for Rhetoric and Public Affairs. He is a regular guest on national radio and television programs, and is frequently interviewed by the American and foreign press. His writings have been published in several countries and translated into German, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Dr. Brands was born in Portland, Oregon, where he lived until he went to California for college. After graduating he became a traveling salesman, with a territory that spanned the West from the Pacific to Colorado. His wanderlust diminished after several trips across the Great Basin, and he turned to sales of a different sort, namely teaching. He lives in Austin with his wife and their youngest child.

"I believe in democracy and I believe democracy works best if there's an awareness of what's come before," said H. W. Brands in an interview.* "Otherwise we try to reinvent the wheel." His belief in the promise of democracy is why Dr. Brand's books appear as often in the aisles of Barnes & Noble as the stacks of colleges and universities. It also accounts for his continuing desire to travel around the country, lecturing to capacity audiences, and to teach survey courses to packed auditoriums of undergraduate students. "I want to make my classrooms as big as possible," said Brands. "The more people I can fit, the better." Dr. Brands, the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History and professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin, has won numerous teaching awards for courses on U.S. history and international relations. Holding Bachelor's and Doctoral degrees in history from Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin, respectively, as well as Master's degrees in liberal studies and mathematics from Reed College and Portland State University, Brands began his career teaching high school and community college students. He later taught at Vanderbilt University and, for 23 years, Texas A & M University before returning to Austin in 2005. Dr. Brands has written twenty books and coauthored or edited five others. His books include: Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times (Doubleday, 2005) Woodrow Wilson (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2003) The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream (Doubleday, 2002) The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (Doubleday, 2000) What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy (Cambridge UP, 1998) TR: The Last Romantic (Basic Books, 1997) His writings have received critical and popular acclaim. The First American was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Prize, as well as a New York Times bestseller. The Age of Gold was a Washington Post Best Book of 2002 and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Andrew Jackson was a Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2005 and a Washington Post bestseller. What America Owes the World was a finalist for the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes and the Lionel Gelber Prize in international affairs. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, National Interest, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Political Science Quarterly, American History, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and many other newspapers, magazines and journals. Dr. Brands is an elected member of various honorary societies, including the Society of American Historians and the Philosophical Society of Texas. He is associate editor for Presidential Studies Quarterly and serves on the editorial board for Rhetoric and Public Affairs. He is a regular guest on national radio and television programs, and is frequently interviewed by the American and foreign press. His writings have been published in several countries and translated into German, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Dr. Brands was born in Portland, Oregon, where he lived until he went to California for college. After graduating he became a traveling salesman, with a territory that spanned the West from the Pacific to Colorado. His wanderlust diminished after several trips across the Great Basin, and he turned to sales of a different sort, namely teaching. He lives in Austin with his wife and their youngest child.

"I believe in democracy and I believe democracy works best if there's an awareness of what's come before," said H. W. Brands in an interview.* "Otherwise we try to reinvent the wheel." His belief in the promise of democracy is why Dr. Brand's books appear as often in the aisles of Barnes & Noble as the stacks of colleges and universities. It also accounts for his continuing desire to travel around the country, lecturing to capacity audiences, and to teach survey courses to packed auditoriums of undergraduate students. "I want to make my classrooms as big as possible," said Brands. "The more people I can fit, the better." Dr. Brands, the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History and professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin, has won numerous teaching awards for courses on U.S. history and international relations. Holding Bachelor's and Doctoral degrees in history from Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin, respectively, as well as Master's degrees in liberal studies and mathematics from Reed College and Portland State University, Brands began his career teaching high school and community college students. He later taught at Vanderbilt University and, for 23 years, Texas A & M University before returning to Austin in 2005. Dr. Brands has written twenty books and coauthored or edited five others. His books include: Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times (Doubleday, 2005) Woodrow Wilson (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2003) The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream (Doubleday, 2002) The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (Doubleday, 2000) What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy (Cambridge UP, 1998) TR: The Last Romantic (Basic Books, 1997) His writings have received critical and popular acclaim. The First American was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Prize, as well as a New York Times bestseller. The Age of Gold was a Washington Post Best Book of 2002 and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Andrew Jackson was a Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2005 and a Washington Post bestseller. What America Owes the World was a finalist for the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes and the Lionel Gelber Prize in international affairs. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, National Interest, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Political Science Quarterly, American History, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and many other newspapers, magazines and journals. Dr. Brands is an elected member of various honorary societies, including the Society of American Historians and the Philosophical Society of Texas. He is associate editor for Presidential Studies Quarterly and serves on the editorial board for Rhetoric and Public Affairs. He is a regular guest on national radio and television programs, and is frequently interviewed by the American and foreign press. His writings have been published in several countries and translated into German, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Dr. Brands was born in Portland, Oregon, where he lived until he went to California for college. After graduating he became a traveling salesman, with a territory that spanned the West from the Pacific to Colorado. His wanderlust diminished after several trips across the Great Basin, and he turned to sales of a different sort, namely teaching. He lives in Austin with his wife and their youngest child.

"I believe in democracy and I believe democracy works best if there's an awareness of what's come before," said H. W. Brands in an interview.* "Otherwise we try to reinvent the wheel." His belief in the promise of democracy is why Dr. Brand's books appear as often in the aisles of Barnes & Noble as the stacks of colleges and universities. It also accounts for his continuing desire to travel around the country, lecturing to capacity audiences, and to teach survey courses to packed auditoriums of undergraduate students. "I want to make my classrooms as big as possible," said Brands. "The more people I can fit, the better." Dr. Brands, the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History and professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin, has won numerous teaching awards for courses on U.S. history and international relations. Holding Bachelor's and Doctoral degrees in history from Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin, respectively, as well as Master's degrees in liberal studies and mathematics from Reed College and Portland State University, Brands began his career teaching high school and community college students. He later taught at Vanderbilt University and, for 23 years, Texas A & M University before returning to Austin in 2005. Dr. Brands has written twenty books and coauthored or edited five others. His books include: Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times (Doubleday, 2005) Woodrow Wilson (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2003) The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream (Doubleday, 2002) The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (Doubleday, 2000) What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy (Cambridge UP, 1998) TR: The Last Romantic (Basic Books, 1997) His writings have received critical and popular acclaim. The First American was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Prize, as well as a New York Times bestseller. The Age of Gold was a Washington Post Best Book of 2002 and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Andrew Jackson was a Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2005 and a Washington Post bestseller. What America Owes the World was a finalist for the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes and the Lionel Gelber Prize in international affairs. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, National Interest, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Political Science Quarterly, American History, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and many other newspapers, magazines and journals. Dr. Brands is an elected member of various honorary societies, including the Society of American Historians and the Philosophical Society of Texas. He is associate editor for Presidential Studies Quarterly and serves on the editorial board for Rhetoric and Public Affairs. He is a regular guest on national radio and television programs, and is frequently interviewed by the American and foreign press. His writings have been published in several countries and translated into German, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Dr. Brands was born in Portland, Oregon, where he lived until he went to California for college. After graduating he became a traveling salesman, with a territory that spanned the West from the Pacific to Colorado. His wanderlust diminished after several trips across the Great Basin, and he turned to sales of a different sort, namely teaching. He lives in Austin with his wife and their youngest child.

"I believe in democracy and I believe democracy works best if there's an awareness of what's come before," said H. W. Brands in an interview.* "Otherwise we try to reinvent the wheel." His belief in the promise of democracy is why Dr. Brand's books appear as often in the aisles of Barnes & Noble as the stacks of colleges and universities. It also accounts for his continuing desire to travel around the country, lecturing to capacity audiences, and to teach survey courses to packed auditoriums of undergraduate students. "I want to make my classrooms as big as possible," said Brands. "The more people I can fit, the better." Dr. Brands, the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History and professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin, has won numerous teaching awards for courses on U.S. history and international relations. Holding Bachelor's and Doctoral degrees in history from Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin, respectively, as well as Master's degrees in liberal studies and mathematics from Reed College and Portland State University, Brands began his career teaching high school and community college students. He later taught at Vanderbilt University and, for 23 years, Texas A & M University before returning to Austin in 2005. Dr. Brands has written twenty books and coauthored or edited five others. His books include: Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times (Doubleday, 2005) Woodrow Wilson (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2003) The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream (Doubleday, 2002) The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (Doubleday, 2000) What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy (Cambridge UP, 1998) TR: The Last Romantic (Basic Books, 1997) His writings have received critical and popular acclaim. The First American was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Prize, as well as a New York Times bestseller. The Age of Gold was a Washington Post Best Book of 2002 and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Andrew Jackson was a Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2005 and a Washington Post bestseller. What America Owes the World was a finalist for the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes and the Lionel Gelber Prize in international affairs. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, National Interest, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Political Science Quarterly, American History, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and many other newspapers, magazines and journals. Dr. Brands is an elected member of various honorary societies, including the Society of American Historians and the Philosophical Society of Texas. He is associate editor for Presidential Studies Quarterly and serves on the editorial board for Rhetoric and Public Affairs. He is a regular guest on national radio and television programs, and is frequently interviewed by the American and foreign press. His writings have been published in several countries and translated into German, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Dr. Brands was born in Portland, Oregon, where he lived until he went to California for college. After graduating he became a traveling salesman, with a territory that spanned the West from the Pacific to Colorado. His wanderlust diminished after several trips across the Great Basin, and he turned to sales of a different sort, namely teaching. He lives in Austin with his wife and their youngest child.

"I believe in democracy and I believe democracy works best if there's an awareness of what's come before," said H. W. Brands in an interview.* "Otherwise we try to reinvent the wheel." His belief in the promise of democracy is why Dr. Brand's books appear as often in the aisles of Barnes & Noble as the stacks of colleges and universities. It also accounts for his continuing desire to travel around the country, lecturing to capacity audiences, and to teach survey courses to packed auditoriums of undergraduate students. "I want to make my classrooms as big as possible," said Brands. "The more people I can fit, the better." Dr. Brands, the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History and professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin, has won numerous teaching awards for courses on U.S. history and international relations. Holding Bachelor's and Doctoral degrees in history from Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin, respectively, as well as Master's degrees in liberal studies and mathematics from Reed College and Portland State University, Brands began his career teaching high school and community college students. He later taught at Vanderbilt University and, for 23 years, Texas A & M University before returning to Austin in 2005. Dr. Brands has written twenty books and coauthored or edited five others. His books include: Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times (Doubleday, 2005) Woodrow Wilson (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2003) The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream (Doubleday, 2002) The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (Doubleday, 2000) What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy (Cambridge UP, 1998) TR: The Last Romantic (Basic Books, 1997) His writings have received critical and popular acclaim. The First American was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Prize, as well as a New York Times bestseller. The Age of Gold was a Washington Post Best Book of 2002 and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Andrew Jackson was a Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2005 and a Washington Post bestseller. What America Owes the World was a finalist for the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes and the Lionel Gelber Prize in international affairs. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, National Interest, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Political Science Quarterly, American History, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and many other newspapers, magazines and journals. Dr. Brands is an elected member of various honorary societies, including the Society of American Historians and the Philosophical Society of Texas. He is associate editor for Presidential Studies Quarterly and serves on the editorial board for Rhetoric and Public Affairs. He is a regular guest on national radio and television programs, and is frequently interviewed by the American and foreign press. His writings have been published in several countries and translated into German, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Dr. Brands was born in Portland, Oregon, where he lived until he went to California for college. After graduating he became a traveling salesman, with a territory that spanned the West from the Pacific to Colorado. His wanderlust diminished after several trips across the Great Basin, and he turned to sales of a different sort, namely teaching. He lives in Austin with his wife and their youngest child.

"I believe in democracy and I believe democracy works best if there's an awareness of what's come before," said H. W. Brands in an interview.* "Otherwise we try to reinvent the wheel." His belief in the promise of democracy is why Dr. Brand's books appear as often in the aisles of Barnes & Noble as the stacks of colleges and universities. It also accounts for his continuing desire to travel around the country, lecturing to capacity audiences, and to teach survey courses to packed auditoriums of undergraduate students. "I want to make my classrooms as big as possible," said Brands. "The more people I can fit, the better." Dr. Brands, the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History and professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin, has won numerous teaching awards for courses on U.S. history and international relations. Holding Bachelor's and Doctoral degrees in history from Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin, respectively, as well as Master's degrees in liberal studies and mathematics from Reed College and Portland State University, Brands began his career teaching high school and community college students. He later taught at Vanderbilt University and, for 23 years, Texas A & M University before returning to Austin in 2005. Dr. Brands has written twenty books and coauthored or edited five others. His books include: Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times (Doubleday, 2005) Woodrow Wilson (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2003) The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream (Doubleday, 2002) The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (Doubleday, 2000) What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy (Cambridge UP, 1998) TR: The Last Romantic (Basic Books, 1997) His writings have received critical and popular acclaim. The First American was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Prize, as well as a New York Times bestseller. The Age of Gold was a Washington Post Best Book of 2002 and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Andrew Jackson was a Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2005 and a Washington Post bestseller. What America Owes the World was a finalist for the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes and the Lionel Gelber Prize in international affairs. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, National Interest, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Political Science Quarterly, American History, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and many other newspapers, magazines and journals. Dr. Brands is an elected member of various honorary societies, including the Society of American Historians and the Philosophical Society of Texas. He is associate editor for Presidential Studies Quarterly and serves on the editorial board for Rhetoric and Public Affairs. He is a regular guest on national radio and television programs, and is frequently interviewed by the American and foreign press. His writings have been published in several countries and translated into German, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Dr. Brands was born in Portland, Oregon, where he lived until he went to California for college. After graduating he became a traveling salesman, with a territory that spanned the West from the Pacific to Colorado. His wanderlust diminished after several trips across the Great Basin, and he turned to sales of a different sort, namely teaching. He lives in Austin with his wife and their youngest child.

"I believe in democracy and I believe democracy works best if there's an awareness of what's come before," said H. W. Brands in an interview.* "Otherwise we try to reinvent the wheel." His belief in the promise of democracy is why Dr. Brand's books appear as often in the aisles of Barnes & Noble as the stacks of colleges and universities. It also accounts for his continuing desire to travel around the country, lecturing to capacity audiences, and to teach survey courses to packed auditoriums of undergraduate students. "I want to make my classrooms as big as possible," said Brands. "The more people I can fit, the better." Dr. Brands, the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History and professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin, has won numerous teaching awards for courses on U.S. history and international relations. Holding Bachelor's and Doctoral degrees in history from Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin, respectively, as well as Master's degrees in liberal studies and mathematics from Reed College and Portland State University, Brands began his career teaching high school and community college students. He later taught at Vanderbilt University and, for 23 years, Texas A & M University before returning to Austin in 2005. Dr. Brands has written twenty books and coauthored or edited five others. His books include: Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times (Doubleday, 2005) Woodrow Wilson (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2003) The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream (Doubleday, 2002) The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (Doubleday, 2000) What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy (Cambridge UP, 1998) TR: The Last Romantic (Basic Books, 1997) His writings have received critical and popular acclaim. The First American was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Prize, as well as a New York Times bestseller. The Age of Gold was a Washington Post Best Book of 2002 and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Andrew Jackson was a Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2005 and a Washington Post bestseller. What America Owes the World was a finalist for the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes and the Lionel Gelber Prize in international affairs. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, National Interest, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Political Science Quarterly, American History, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and many other newspapers, magazines and journals. Dr. Brands is an elected member of various honorary societies, including the Society of American Historians and the Philosophical Society of Texas. He is associate editor for Presidential Studies Quarterly and serves on the editorial board for Rhetoric and Public Affairs. He is a regular guest on national radio and television programs, and is frequently interviewed by the American and foreign press. His writings have been published in several countries and translated into German, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Dr. Brands was born in Portland, Oregon, where he lived until he went to California for college. After graduating he became a traveling salesman, with a territory that spanned the West from the Pacific to Colorado. His wanderlust diminished after several trips across the Great Basin, and he turned to sales of a different sort, namely teaching. He lives in Austin with his wife and their youngest child.

"I believe in democracy and I believe democracy works best if there's an awareness of what's come before," said H. W. Brands in an interview.* "Otherwise we try to reinvent the wheel." His belief in the promise of democracy is why Dr. Brand's books appear as often in the aisles of Barnes & Noble as the stacks of colleges and universities. It also accounts for his continuing desire to travel around the country, lecturing to capacity audiences, and to teach survey courses to packed auditoriums of undergraduate students. "I want to make my classrooms as big as possible," said Brands. "The more people I can fit, the better." Dr. Brands, the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History and professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin, has won numerous teaching awards for courses on U.S. history and international relations. Holding Bachelor's and Doctoral degrees in history from Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin, respectively, as well as Master's degrees in liberal studies and mathematics from Reed College and Portland State University, Brands began his career teaching high school and community college students. He later taught at Vanderbilt University and, for 23 years, Texas A & M University before returning to Austin in 2005. Dr. Brands has written twenty books and coauthored or edited five others. His books include: Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times (Doubleday, 2005) Woodrow Wilson (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2003) The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream (Doubleday, 2002) The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (Doubleday, 2000) What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy (Cambridge UP, 1998) TR: The Last Romantic (Basic Books, 1997) His writings have received critical and popular acclaim. The First American was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Prize, as well as a New York Times bestseller. The Age of Gold was a Washington Post Best Book of 2002 and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Andrew Jackson was a Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2005 and a Washington Post bestseller. What America Owes the World was a finalist for the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes and the Lionel Gelber Prize in international affairs. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, National Interest, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Political Science Quarterly, American History, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and many other newspapers, magazines and journals. Dr. Brands is an elected member of various honorary societies, including the Society of American Historians and the Philosophical Society of Texas. He is associate editor for Presidential Studies Quarterly and serves on the editorial board for Rhetoric and Public Affairs. He is a regular guest on national radio and television programs, and is frequently interviewed by the American and foreign press. His writings have been published in several countries and translated into German, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Dr. Brands was born in Portland, Oregon, where he lived until he went to California for college. After graduating he became a traveling salesman, with a territory that spanned the West from the Pacific to Colorado. His wanderlust diminished after several trips across the Great Basin, and he turned to sales of a different sort, namely teaching. He lives in Austin with his wife and their youngest child.

"I believe in democracy and I believe democracy works best if there's an awareness of what's come before," said H. W. Brands in an interview.* "Otherwise we try to reinvent the wheel." His belief in the promise of democracy is why Dr. Brand's books appear as often in the aisles of Barnes & Noble as the stacks of colleges and universities. It also accounts for his continuing desire to travel around the country, lecturing to capacity audiences, and to teach survey courses to packed auditoriums of undergraduate students. "I want to make my classrooms as big as possible," said Brands. "The more people I can fit, the better." Dr. Brands, the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History and professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin, has won numerous teaching awards for courses on U.S. history and international relations. Holding Bachelor's and Doctoral degrees in history from Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin, respectively, as well as Master's degrees in liberal studies and mathematics from Reed College and Portland State University, Brands began his career teaching high school and community college students. He later taught at Vanderbilt University and, for 23 years, Texas A & M University before returning to Austin in 2005. Dr. Brands has written twenty books and coauthored or edited five others. His books include: Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times (Doubleday, 2005) Woodrow Wilson (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2003) The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream (Doubleday, 2002) The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (Doubleday, 2000) What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy (Cambridge UP, 1998) TR: The Last Romantic (Basic Books, 1997) His writings have received critical and popular acclaim. The First American was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Prize, as well as a New York Times bestseller. The Age of Gold was a Washington Post Best Book of 2002 and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Andrew Jackson was a Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2005 and a Washington Post bestseller. What America Owes the World was a finalist for the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes and the Lionel Gelber Prize in international affairs. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, National Interest, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Political Science Quarterly, American History, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and many other newspapers, magazines and journals. Dr. Brands is an elected member of various honorary societies, including the Society of American Historians and the Philosophical Society of Texas. He is associate editor for Presidential Studies Quarterly and serves on the editorial board for Rhetoric and Public Affairs. He is a regular guest on national radio and television programs, and is frequently interviewed by the American and foreign press. His writings have been published in several countries and translated into German, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Dr. Brands was born in Portland, Oregon, where he lived until he went to California for college. After graduating he became a traveling salesman, with a territory that spanned the West from the Pacific to Colorado. His wanderlust diminished after several trips across the Great Basin, and he turned to sales of a different sort, namely teaching. He lives in Austin with his wife and their youngest child.

"I believe in democracy and I believe democracy works best if there's an awareness of what's come before," said H. W. Brands in an interview.* "Otherwise we try to reinvent the wheel." His belief in the promise of democracy is why Dr. Brand's books appear as often in the aisles of Barnes & Noble as the stacks of colleges and universities. It also accounts for his continuing desire to travel around the country, lecturing to capacity audiences, and to teach survey courses to packed auditoriums of undergraduate students. "I want to make my classrooms as big as possible," said Brands. "The more people I can fit, the better." Dr. Brands, the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History and professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin, has won numerous teaching awards for courses on U.S. history and international relations. Holding Bachelor's and Doctoral degrees in history from Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin, respectively, as well as Master's degrees in liberal studies and mathematics from Reed College and Portland State University, Brands began his career teaching high school and community college students. He later taught at Vanderbilt University and, for 23 years, Texas A & M University before returning to Austin in 2005. Dr. Brands has written twenty books and coauthored or edited five others. His books include: Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times (Doubleday, 2005) Woodrow Wilson (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2003) The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream (Doubleday, 2002) The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (Doubleday, 2000) What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy (Cambridge UP, 1998) TR: The Last Romantic (Basic Books, 1997) His writings have received critical and popular acclaim. The First American was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Prize, as well as a New York Times bestseller. The Age of Gold was a Washington Post Best Book of 2002 and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Andrew Jackson was a Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2005 and a Washington Post bestseller. What America Owes the World was a finalist for the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes and the Lionel Gelber Prize in international affairs. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, National Interest, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Political Science Quarterly, American History, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and many other newspapers, magazines and journals. Dr. Brands is an elected member of various honorary societies, including the Society of American Historians and the Philosophical Society of Texas. He is associate editor for Presidential Studies Quarterly and serves on the editorial board for Rhetoric and Public Affairs. He is a regular guest on national radio and television programs, and is frequently interviewed by the American and foreign press. His writings have been published in several countries and translated into German, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Dr. Brands was born in Portland, Oregon, where he lived until he went to California for college. After graduating he became a traveling salesman, with a territory that spanned the West from the Pacific to Colorado. His wanderlust diminished after several trips across the Great Basin, and he turned to sales of a different sort, namely teaching. He lives in Austin with his wife and their youngest child.

"I believe in democracy and I believe democracy works best if there's an awareness of what's come before," said H. W. Brands in an interview.* "Otherwise we try to reinvent the wheel." His belief in the promise of democracy is why Dr. Brand's books appear as often in the aisles of Barnes & Noble as the stacks of colleges and universities. It also accounts for his continuing desire to travel around the country, lecturing to capacity audiences, and to teach survey courses to packed auditoriums of undergraduate students. "I want to make my classrooms as big as possible," said Brands. "The more people I can fit, the better." Dr. Brands, the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History and professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin, has won numerous teaching awards for courses on U.S. history and international relations. Holding Bachelor's and Doctoral degrees in history from Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin, respectively, as well as Master's degrees in liberal studies and mathematics from Reed College and Portland State University, Brands began his career teaching high school and community college students. He later taught at Vanderbilt University and, for 23 years, Texas A & M University before returning to Austin in 2005. Dr. Brands has written twenty books and coauthored or edited five others. His books include: Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times (Doubleday, 2005) Woodrow Wilson (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2003) The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream (Doubleday, 2002) The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (Doubleday, 2000) What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy (Cambridge UP, 1998) TR: The Last Romantic (Basic Books, 1997) His writings have received critical and popular acclaim. The First American was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Prize, as well as a New York Times bestseller. The Age of Gold was a Washington Post Best Book of 2002 and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Andrew Jackson was a Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2005 and a Washington Post bestseller. What America Owes the World was a finalist for the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes and the Lionel Gelber Prize in international affairs. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, National Interest, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Political Science Quarterly, American History, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and many other newspapers, magazines and journals. Dr. Brands is an elected member of various honorary societies, including the Society of American Historians and the Philosophical Society of Texas. He is associate editor for Presidential Studies Quarterly and serves on the editorial board for Rhetoric and Public Affairs. He is a regular guest on national radio and television programs, and is frequently interviewed by the American and foreign press. His writings have been published in several countries and translated into German, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Dr. Brands was born in Portland, Oregon, where he lived until he went to California for college. After graduating he became a traveling salesman, with a territory that spanned the West from the Pacific to Colorado. His wanderlust diminished after several trips across the Great Basin, and he turned to sales of a different sort, namely teaching. He lives in Austin with his wife and their youngest child.

"I believe in democracy and I believe democracy works best if there's an awareness of what's come before," said H. W. Brands in an interview.* "Otherwise we try to reinvent the wheel." His belief in the promise of democracy is why Dr. Brand's books appear as often in the aisles of Barnes & Noble as the stacks of colleges and universities. It also accounts for his continuing desire to travel around the country, lecturing to capacity audiences, and to teach survey courses to packed auditoriums of undergraduate students. "I want to make my classrooms as big as possible," said Brands. "The more people I can fit, the better." Dr. Brands, the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History and professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin, has won numerous teaching awards for courses on U.S. history and international relations. Holding Bachelor's and Doctoral degrees in history from Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin, respectively, as well as Master's degrees in liberal studies and mathematics from Reed College and Portland State University, Brands began his career teaching high school and community college students. He later taught at Vanderbilt University and, for 23 years, Texas A & M University before returning to Austin in 2005. Dr. Brands has written twenty books and coauthored or edited five others. His books include: Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times (Doubleday, 2005) Woodrow Wilson (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2003) The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream (Doubleday, 2002) The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (Doubleday, 2000) What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy (Cambridge UP, 1998) TR: The Last Romantic (Basic Books, 1997) His writings have received critical and popular acclaim. The First American was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Prize, as well as a New York Times bestseller. The Age of Gold was a Washington Post Best Book of 2002 and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Andrew Jackson was a Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2005 and a Washington Post bestseller. What America Owes the World was a finalist for the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes and the Lionel Gelber Prize in international affairs. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, National Interest, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Political Science Quarterly, American History, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and many other newspapers, magazines and journals. Dr. Brands is an elected member of various honorary societies, including the Society of American Historians and the Philosophical Society of Texas. He is associate editor for Presidential Studies Quarterly and serves on the editorial board for Rhetoric and Public Affairs. He is a regular guest on national radio and television programs, and is frequently interviewed by the American and foreign press. His writings have been published in several countries and translated into German, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Dr. Brands was born in Portland, Oregon, where he lived until he went to California for college. After graduating he became a traveling salesman, with a territory that spanned the West from the Pacific to Colorado. His wanderlust diminished after several trips across the Great Basin, and he turned to sales of a different sort, namely teaching. He lives in Austin with his wife and their youngest child.

"I believe in democracy and I believe democracy works best if there's an awareness of what's come before," said H. W. Brands in an interview.* "Otherwise we try to reinvent the wheel." His belief in the promise of democracy is why Dr. Brand's books appear as often in the aisles of Barnes & Noble as the stacks of colleges and universities. It also accounts for his continuing desire to travel around the country, lecturing to capacity audiences, and to teach survey courses to packed auditoriums of undergraduate students. "I want to make my classrooms as big as possible," said Brands. "The more people I can fit, the better." Dr. Brands, the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History and professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin, has won numerous teaching awards for courses on U.S. history and international relations. Holding Bachelor's and Doctoral degrees in history from Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin, respectively, as well as Master's degrees in liberal studies and mathematics from Reed College and Portland State University, Brands began his career teaching high school and community college students. He later taught at Vanderbilt University and, for 23 years, Texas A & M University before returning to Austin in 2005. Dr. Brands has written twenty books and coauthored or edited five others. His books include: Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times (Doubleday, 2005) Woodrow Wilson (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2003) The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream (Doubleday, 2002) The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (Doubleday, 2000) What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy (Cambridge UP, 1998) TR: The Last Romantic (Basic Books, 1997) His writings have received critical and popular acclaim. The First American was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Prize, as well as a New York Times bestseller. The Age of Gold was a Washington Post Best Book of 2002 and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Andrew Jackson was a Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2005 and a Washington Post bestseller. What America Owes the World was a finalist for the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes and the Lionel Gelber Prize in international affairs. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, National Interest, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Political Science Quarterly, American History, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and many other newspapers, magazines and journals. Dr. Brands is an elected member of various honorary societies, including the Society of American Historians and the Philosophical Society of Texas. He is associate editor for Presidential Studies Quarterly and serves on the editorial board for Rhetoric and Public Affairs. He is a regular guest on national radio and television programs, and is frequently interviewed by the American and foreign press. His writings have been published in several countries and translated into German, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Dr. Brands was born in Portland, Oregon, where he lived until he went to California for college. After graduating he became a traveling salesman, with a territory that spanned the West from the Pacific to Colorado. His wanderlust diminished after several trips across the Great Basin, and he turned to sales of a different sort, namely teaching. He lives in Austin with his wife and their youngest child.

"I believe in democracy and I believe democracy works best if there's an awareness of what's come before," said H. W. Brands in an interview.* "Otherwise we try to reinvent the wheel." His belief in the promise of democracy is why Dr. Brand's books appear as often in the aisles of Barnes & Noble as the stacks of colleges and universities. It also accounts for his continuing desire to travel around the country, lecturing to capacity audiences, and to teach survey courses to packed auditoriums of undergraduate students. "I want to make my classrooms as big as possible," said Brands. "The more people I can fit, the better." Dr. Brands, the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History and professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin, has won numerous teaching awards for courses on U.S. history and international relations. Holding Bachelor's and Doctoral degrees in history from Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin, respectively, as well as Master's degrees in liberal studies and mathematics from Reed College and Portland State University, Brands began his career teaching high school and community college students. He later taught at Vanderbilt University and, for 23 years, Texas A & M University before returning to Austin in 2005. Dr. Brands has written twenty books and coauthored or edited five others. His books include: Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times (Doubleday, 2005) Woodrow Wilson (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2003) The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream (Doubleday, 2002) The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (Doubleday, 2000) What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy (Cambridge UP, 1998) TR: The Last Romantic (Basic Books, 1997) His writings have received critical and popular acclaim. The First American was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Prize, as well as a New York Times bestseller. The Age of Gold was a Washington Post Best Book of 2002 and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Andrew Jackson was a Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2005 and a Washington Post bestseller. What America Owes the World was a finalist for the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes and the Lionel Gelber Prize in international affairs. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, National Interest, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Political Science Quarterly, American History, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and many other newspapers, magazines and journals. Dr. Brands is an elected member of various honorary societies, including the Society of American Historians and the Philosophical Society of Texas. He is associate editor for Presidential Studies Quarterly and serves on the editorial board for Rhetoric and Public Affairs. He is a regular guest on national radio and television programs, and is frequently interviewed by the American and foreign press. His writings have been published in several countries and translated into German, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Dr. Brands was born in Portland, Oregon, where he lived until he went to California for college. After graduating he became a traveling salesman, with a territory that spanned the West from the Pacific to Colorado. His wanderlust diminished after several trips across the Great Basin, and he turned to sales of a different sort, namely teaching. He lives in Austin with his wife and their youngest child.

"I believe in democracy and I believe democracy works best if there's an awareness of what's come before," said H. W. Brands in an interview.* "Otherwise we try to reinvent the wheel." His belief in the promise of democracy is why Dr. Brand's books appear as often in the aisles of Barnes & Noble as the stacks of colleges and universities. It also accounts for his continuing desire to travel around the country, lecturing to capacity audiences, and to teach survey courses to packed auditoriums of undergraduate students. "I want to make my classrooms as big as possible," said Brands. "The more people I can fit, the better." Dr. Brands, the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History and professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin, has won numerous teaching awards for courses on U.S. history and international relations. Holding Bachelor's and Doctoral degrees in history from Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin, respectively, as well as Master's degrees in liberal studies and mathematics from Reed College and Portland State University, Brands began his career teaching high school and community college students. He later taught at Vanderbilt University and, for 23 years, Texas A & M University before returning to Austin in 2005. Dr. Brands has written twenty books and coauthored or edited five others. His books include: Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times (Doubleday, 2005) Woodrow Wilson (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2003) The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream (Doubleday, 2002) The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (Doubleday, 2000) What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy (Cambridge UP, 1998) TR: The Last Romantic (Basic Books, 1997) His writings have received critical and popular acclaim. The First American was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Prize, as well as a New York Times bestseller. The Age of Gold was a Washington Post Best Book of 2002 and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Andrew Jackson was a Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2005 and a Washington Post bestseller. What America Owes the World was a finalist for the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes and the Lionel Gelber Prize in international affairs. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, National Interest, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Political Science Quarterly, American History, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and many other newspapers, magazines and journals. Dr. Brands is an elected member of various honorary societies, including the Society of American Historians and the Philosophical Society of Texas. He is associate editor for Presidential Studies Quarterly and serves on the editorial board for Rhetoric and Public Affairs. He is a regular guest on national radio and television programs, and is frequently interviewed by the American and foreign press. His writings have been published in several countries and translated into German, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Dr. Brands was born in Portland, Oregon, where he lived until he went to California for college. After graduating he became a traveling salesman, with a territory that spanned the West from the Pacific to Colorado. His wanderlust diminished after several trips across the Great Basin, and he turned to sales of a different sort, namely teaching. He lives in Austin with his wife and their youngest child.

"I believe in democracy and I believe democracy works best if there's an awareness of what's come before," said H. W. Brands in an interview.* "Otherwise we try to reinvent the wheel." His belief in the promise of democracy is why Dr. Brand's books appear as often in the aisles of Barnes & Noble as the stacks of colleges and universities. It also accounts for his continuing desire to travel around the country, lecturing to capacity audiences, and to teach survey courses to packed auditoriums of undergraduate students. "I want to make my classrooms as big as possible," said Brands. "The more people I can fit, the better." Dr. Brands, the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History and professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin, has won numerous teaching awards for courses on U.S. history and international relations. Holding Bachelor's and Doctoral degrees in history from Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin, respectively, as well as Master's degrees in liberal studies and mathematics from Reed College and Portland State University, Brands began his career teaching high school and community college students. He later taught at Vanderbilt University and, for 23 years, Texas A & M University before returning to Austin in 2005. Dr. Brands has written twenty books and coauthored or edited five others. His books include: Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times (Doubleday, 2005) Woodrow Wilson (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2003) The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream (Doubleday, 2002) The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (Doubleday, 2000) What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy (Cambridge UP, 1998) TR: The Last Romantic (Basic Books, 1997) His writings have received critical and popular acclaim. The First American was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Prize, as well as a New York Times bestseller. The Age of Gold was a Washington Post Best Book of 2002 and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Andrew Jackson was a Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2005 and a Washington Post bestseller. What America Owes the World was a finalist for the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes and the Lionel Gelber Prize in international affairs. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, National Interest, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Political Science Quarterly, American History, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and many other newspapers, magazines and journals. Dr. Brands is an elected member of various honorary societies, including the Society of American Historians and the Philosophical Society of Texas. He is associate editor for Presidential Studies Quarterly and serves on the editorial board for Rhetoric and Public Affairs. He is a regular guest on national radio and television programs, and is frequently interviewed by the American and foreign press. His writings have been published in several countries and translated into German, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Dr. Brands was born in Portland, Oregon, where he lived until he went to California for college. After graduating he became a traveling salesman, with a territory that spanned the West from the Pacific to Colorado. His wanderlust diminished after several trips across the Great Basin, and he turned to sales of a different sort, namely teaching. He lives in Austin with his wife and their youngest child.

"I believe in democracy and I believe democracy works best if there's an awareness of what's come before," said H. W. Brands in an interview.* "Otherwise we try to reinvent the wheel." His belief in the promise of democracy is why Dr. Brand's books appear as often in the aisles of Barnes & Noble as the stacks of colleges and universities. It also accounts for his continuing desire to travel around the country, lecturing to capacity audiences, and to teach survey courses to packed auditoriums of undergraduate students. "I want to make my classrooms as big as possible," said Brands. "The more people I can fit, the better." Dr. Brands, the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History and professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin, has won numerous teaching awards for courses on U.S. history and international relations. Holding Bachelor's and Doctoral degrees in history from Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin, respectively, as well as Master's degrees in liberal studies and mathematics from Reed College and Portland State University, Brands began his career teaching high school and community college students. He later taught at Vanderbilt University and, for 23 years, Texas A & M University before returning to Austin in 2005. Dr. Brands has written twenty books and coauthored or edited five others. His books include: Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times (Doubleday, 2005) Woodrow Wilson (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2003) The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream (Doubleday, 2002) The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (Doubleday, 2000) What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy (Cambridge UP, 1998) TR: The Last Romantic (Basic Books, 1997) His writings have received critical and popular acclaim. The First American was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Prize, as well as a New York Times bestseller. The Age of Gold was a Washington Post Best Book of 2002 and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Andrew Jackson was a Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2005 and a Washington Post bestseller. What America Owes the World was a finalist for the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes and the Lionel Gelber Prize in international affairs. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, National Interest, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Political Science Quarterly, American History, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and many other newspapers, magazines and journals. Dr. Brands is an elected member of various honorary societies, including the Society of American Historians and the Philosophical Society of Texas. He is associate editor for Presidential Studies Quarterly and serves on the editorial board for Rhetoric and Public Affairs. He is a regular guest on national radio and television programs, and is frequently interviewed by the American and foreign press. His writings have been published in several countries and translated into German, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Dr. Brands was born in Portland, Oregon, where he lived until he went to California for college. After graduating he became a traveling salesman, with a territory that spanned the West from the Pacific to Colorado. His wanderlust diminished after several trips across the Great Basin, and he turned to sales of a different sort, namely teaching. He lives in Austin with his wife and their youngest child.

"I believe in democracy and I believe democracy works best if there's an awareness of what's come before," said H. W. Brands in an interview.* "Otherwise we try to reinvent the wheel." His belief in the promise of democracy is why Dr. Brand's books appear as often in the aisles of Barnes & Noble as the stacks of colleges and universities. It also accounts for his continuing desire to travel around the country, lecturing to capacity audiences, and to teach survey courses to packed auditoriums of undergraduate students. "I want to make my classrooms as big as possible," said Brands. "The more people I can fit, the better." Dr. Brands, the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History and professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin, has won numerous teaching awards for courses on U.S. history and international relations. Holding Bachelor's and Doctoral degrees in history from Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin, respectively, as well as Master's degrees in liberal studies and mathematics from Reed College and Portland State University, Brands began his career teaching high school and community college students. He later taught at Vanderbilt University and, for 23 years, Texas A & M University before returning to Austin in 2005. Dr. Brands has written twenty books and coauthored or edited five others. His books include: Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times (Doubleday, 2005) Woodrow Wilson (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2003) The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream (Doubleday, 2002) The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (Doubleday, 2000) What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy (Cambridge UP, 1998) TR: The Last Romantic (Basic Books, 1997) His writings have received critical and popular acclaim. The First American was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Prize, as well as a New York Times bestseller. The Age of Gold was a Washington Post Best Book of 2002 and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Andrew Jackson was a Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2005 and a Washington Post bestseller. What America Owes the World was a finalist for the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes and the Lionel Gelber Prize in international affairs. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, National Interest, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Political Science Quarterly, American History, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and many other newspapers, magazines and journals. Dr. Brands is an elected member of various honorary societies, including the Society of American Historians and the Philosophical Society of Texas. He is associate editor for Presidential Studies Quarterly and serves on the editorial board for Rhetoric and Public Affairs. He is a regular guest on national radio and television programs, and is frequently interviewed by the American and foreign press. His writings have been published in several countries and translated into German, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Dr. Brands was born in Portland, Oregon, where he lived until he went to California for college. After graduating he became a traveling salesman, with a territory that spanned the West from the Pacific to Colorado. His wanderlust diminished after several trips across the Great Basin, and he turned to sales of a different sort, namely teaching. He lives in Austin with his wife and their youngest child.

"I believe in democracy and I believe democracy works best if there's an awareness of what's come before," said H. W. Brands in an interview.* "Otherwise we try to reinvent the wheel." His belief in the promise of democracy is why Dr. Brand's books appear as often in the aisles of Barnes & Noble as the stacks of colleges and universities. It also accounts for his continuing desire to travel around the country, lecturing to capacity audiences, and to teach survey courses to packed auditoriums of undergraduate students. "I want to make my classrooms as big as possible," said Brands. "The more people I can fit, the better." Dr. Brands, the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History and professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin, has won numerous teaching awards for courses on U.S. history and international relations. Holding Bachelor's and Doctoral degrees in history from Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin, respectively, as well as Master's degrees in liberal studies and mathematics from Reed College and Portland State University, Brands began his career teaching high school and community college students. He later taught at Vanderbilt University and, for 23 years, Texas A & M University before returning to Austin in 2005. Dr. Brands has written twenty books and coauthored or edited five others. His books include: Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times (Doubleday, 2005) Woodrow Wilson (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2003) The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream (Doubleday, 2002) The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (Doubleday, 2000) What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy (Cambridge UP, 1998) TR: The Last Romantic (Basic Books, 1997) His writings have received critical and popular acclaim. The First American was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Prize, as well as a New York Times bestseller. The Age of Gold was a Washington Post Best Book of 2002 and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Andrew Jackson was a Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2005 and a Washington Post bestseller. What America Owes the World was a finalist for the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes and the Lionel Gelber Prize in international affairs. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, National Interest, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Political Science Quarterly, American History, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and many other newspapers, magazines and journals. Dr. Brands is an elected member of various honorary societies, including the Society of American Historians and the Philosophical Society of Texas. He is associate editor for Presidential Studies Quarterly and serves on the editorial board for Rhetoric and Public Affairs. He is a regular guest on national radio and television programs, and is frequently interviewed by the American and foreign press. His writings have been published in several countries and translated into German, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Dr. Brands was born in Portland, Oregon, where he lived until he went to California for college. After graduating he became a traveling salesman, with a territory that spanned the West from the Pacific to Colorado. His wanderlust diminished after several trips across the Great Basin, and he turned to sales of a different sort, namely teaching. He lives in Austin with his wife and their youngest child.

"I believe in democracy and I believe democracy works best if there's an awareness of what's come before," said H. W. Brands in an interview.* "Otherwise we try to reinvent the wheel." His belief in the promise of democracy is why Dr. Brand's books appear as often in the aisles of Barnes & Noble as the stacks of colleges and universities. It also accounts for his continuing desire to travel around the country, lecturing to capacity audiences, and to teach survey courses to packed auditoriums of undergraduate students. "I want to make my classrooms as big as possible," said Brands. "The more people I can fit, the better." Dr. Brands, the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History and professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin, has won numerous teaching awards for courses on U.S. history and international relations. Holding Bachelor's and Doctoral degrees in history from Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin, respectively, as well as Master's degrees in liberal studies and mathematics from Reed College and Portland State University, Brands began his career teaching high school and community college students. He later taught at Vanderbilt University and, for 23 years, Texas A & M University before returning to Austin in 2005. Dr. Brands has written twenty books and coauthored or edited five others. His books include: Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times (Doubleday, 2005) Woodrow Wilson (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2003) The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream (Doubleday, 2002) The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (Doubleday, 2000) What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy (Cambridge UP, 1998) TR: The Last Romantic (Basic Books, 1997) His writings have received critical and popular acclaim. The First American was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Prize, as well as a New York Times bestseller. The Age of Gold was a Washington Post Best Book of 2002 and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Andrew Jackson was a Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2005 and a Washington Post bestseller. What America Owes the World was a finalist for the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes and the Lionel Gelber Prize in international affairs. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, National Interest, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Political Science Quarterly, American History, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and many other newspapers, magazines and journals. Dr. Brands is an elected member of various honorary societies, including the Society of American Historians and the Philosophical Society of Texas. He is associate editor for Presidential Studies Quarterly and serves on the editorial board for Rhetoric and Public Affairs. He is a regular guest on national radio and television programs, and is frequently interviewed by the American and foreign press. His writings have been published in several countries and translated into German, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Dr. Brands was born in Portland, Oregon, where he lived until he went to California for college. After graduating he became a traveling salesman, with a territory that spanned the West from the Pacific to Colorado. His wanderlust diminished after several trips across the Great Basin, and he turned to sales of a different sort, namely teaching. He lives in Austin with his wife and their youngest child.

"I believe in democracy and I believe democracy works best if there's an awareness of what's come before," said H. W. Brands in an interview.* "Otherwise we try to reinvent the wheel." His belief in the promise of democracy is why Dr. Brand's books appear as often in the aisles of Barnes & Noble as the stacks of colleges and universities. It also accounts for his continuing desire to travel around the country, lecturing to capacity audiences, and to teach survey courses to packed auditoriums of undergraduate students. "I want to make my classrooms as big as possible," said Brands. "The more people I can fit, the better." Dr. Brands, the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History and professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin, has won numerous teaching awards for courses on U.S. history and international relations. Holding Bachelor's and Doctoral degrees in history from Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin, respectively, as well as Master's degrees in liberal studies and mathematics from Reed College and Portland State University, Brands began his career teaching high school and community college students. He later taught at Vanderbilt University and, for 23 years, Texas A & M University before returning to Austin in 2005. Dr. Brands has written twenty books and coauthored or edited five others. His books include: Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times (Doubleday, 2005) Woodrow Wilson (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2003) The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream (Doubleday, 2002) The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (Doubleday, 2000) What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy (Cambridge UP, 1998) TR: The Last Romantic (Basic Books, 1997) His writings have received critical and popular acclaim. The First American was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Prize, as well as a New York Times bestseller. The Age of Gold was a Washington Post Best Book of 2002 and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Andrew Jackson was a Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2005 and a Washington Post bestseller. What America Owes the World was a finalist for the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes and the Lionel Gelber Prize in international affairs. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, National Interest, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Political Science Quarterly, American History, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and many other newspapers, magazines and journals. Dr. Brands is an elected member of various honorary societies, including the Society of American Historians and the Philosophical Society of Texas. He is associate editor for Presidential Studies Quarterly and serves on the editorial board for Rhetoric and Public Affairs. He is a regular guest on national radio and television programs, and is frequently interviewed by the American and foreign press. His writings have been published in several countries and translated into German, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Dr. Brands was born in Portland, Oregon, where he lived until he went to California for college. After graduating he became a traveling salesman, with a territory that spanned the West from the Pacific to Colorado. His wanderlust diminished after several trips across the Great Basin, and he turned to sales of a different sort, namely teaching. He lives in Austin with his wife and their youngest child.

"I believe in democracy and I believe democracy works best if there's an awareness of what's come before," said H. W. Brands in an interview.* "Otherwise we try to reinvent the wheel." His belief in the promise of democracy is why Dr. Brand's books appear as often in the aisles of Barnes & Noble as the stacks of colleges and universities. It also accounts for his continuing desire to travel around the country, lecturing to capacity audiences, and to teach survey courses to packed auditoriums of undergraduate students. "I want to make my classrooms as big as possible," said Brands. "The more people I can fit, the better." Dr. Brands, the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History and professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin, has won numerous teaching awards for courses on U.S. history and international relations. Holding Bachelor's and Doctoral degrees in history from Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin, respectively, as well as Master's degrees in liberal studies and mathematics from Reed College and Portland State University, Brands began his career teaching high school and community college students. He later taught at Vanderbilt University and, for 23 years, Texas A & M University before returning to Austin in 2005. Dr. Brands has written twenty books and coauthored or edited five others. His books include: Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times (Doubleday, 2005) Woodrow Wilson (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2003) The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream (Doubleday, 2002) The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (Doubleday, 2000) What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy (Cambridge UP, 1998) TR: The Last Romantic (Basic Books, 1997) His writings have received critical and popular acclaim. The First American was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Prize, as well as a New York Times bestseller. The Age of Gold was a Washington Post Best Book of 2002 and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Andrew Jackson was a Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2005 and a Washington Post bestseller. What America Owes the World was a finalist for the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes and the Lionel Gelber Prize in international affairs. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, National Interest, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Political Science Quarterly, American History, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and many other newspapers, magazines and journals. Dr. Brands is an elected member of various honorary societies, including the Society of American Historians and the Philosophical Society of Texas. He is associate editor for Presidential Studies Quarterly and serves on the editorial board for Rhetoric and Public Affairs. He is a regular guest on national radio and television programs, and is frequently interviewed by the American and foreign press. His writings have been published in several countries and translated into German, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Dr. Brands was born in Portland, Oregon, where he lived until he went to California for college. After graduating he became a traveling salesman, with a territory that spanned the West from the Pacific to Colorado. His wanderlust diminished after several trips across the Great Basin, and he turned to sales of a different sort, namely teaching. He lives in Austin with his wife and their youngest child.