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Notes and Links to Joan Silber's Work    Joan Silber was raised in New Jersey and received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied writing with Grace Paley. She moved to New York after college and has made it her home ever since. She holds an M.A. from New York University. She's written ten books of fiction--most recently, Mercy, out in fall 2025.  Secrets of Happiness was a Washington Post Best Book of the year and a Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction of the Year.  Improvement won The National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award.  She also received the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story.  Her other works of fiction include Fools, longlisted for the National Book Award and finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, The Size of the World, finalist for the Los Angeles Times Prize in Fiction, and Ideas of Heaven, finalist for the National Book Award and the Story Prize.  She's also written Lucky Us, In My Other Life, and In the City (to be reissued by Hagfish in 2026), and her first book, Household Words, won the PEN/Hemingway Award. She's the author of The Art of Time in Fiction, which looks at how fiction is shaped and determined by time, with examples from world writers.  Her short fiction has been chosen for the O. Henry Prize, Best American Short Stories, and the Pushcart Prize.  Stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, The Southern Review, Ploughshares, Zyzzyva, and other magazines. She's been the recipient of an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. For many years Joan taught fiction writing at Sarah Lawrence College and in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.  Joan lives on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, with Jolie, her rescued street dog from Taiwan, and she travels as often as she can, with a particular interest in Asia. Buy Mercy   Joan Silber's Website   Joan Silber's Wikipedia Page   Boston Globe Review of Mercy   At about 2:55, Joan talks about responses about her new novel and how uncertainty is always  At about 3:45, Joan talks about places to buy her new novel and upcoming book events At about 5:05, Joan traces her early relationship with reading and writing and talks about early inspirations like Louisa May Alcott At about 6:55, Joan responds to Pete's question about the catalysts for her writing career, and she references the wonderful Grace Paley and her generative teaching methods At about 8:35, Joan talks about contemporary writers and influences like Charles Baxter, Andrea Barrett, and Margo Livesy At about 9:50, Pete bumbles through a vague comparison in complimenting Joan on her depiction of New York in the 1970s and gives some exposition of the book, especially regarding the book's main protagonist, Ivan  At about 11:25, Joan reflects on Ivan and Eddie as “intellectuallizing” their drug adventures  At about 12:35, Joan responds to Pete asking about Eddie and his mindset and personality  At about 14:45, the two trace the book's inciting incident, involving Eddie and Ivan indulging in drugs to an extreme  At about 17:30, Joan expands on her initial thoughts for the book, and on the secret that Ivan keeps to himself, as well as how she views Ivan in a “complicated” way At about 18:45, Joan responds to Pete's question about whether or not she “sit[s] in judgment of [her] characters” At about 20:20, Pete highlights Ivan and asks Joan's about Eddie “hav[ing] his own kingdom” in Ivan's life, especially with regard to his atonement for Alcoholics Anonymous At about 21:50, Pete traces Astrid/Ginger's career arc, as Ivan sees her rise and connects to Eddie, and Joan expands on why her film being done in Malaysia is connected to real-life regulations in China At about 23:30, Pete asks Joan about how she gets into the mindset to write about “What if?” At about 24:50, Chapter Two is discussed, with a new narrator in Astrid, and her tragedies and triumphs At about 26:10, Joan talks about the movie that takes place in the book, with Astrid as a star; Joan expands upon the “circle” of heroin/opioids in the novel At about 28:30, Joan discusses the “echo in the title” about heroin as the “drug of mercy” At about 29:00, Joan gives background on her choice in including Cara as a character who is a “bystander” to Eddie's abandonment  At about 30:15, Joan and Pete discuss the whys of Cara leaving and getting on the road At about 31:40, Joan talks about Chapter Three as a previously-published chapter/standalone, and how she likes “getting her characters in trouble” At about 32:00, Joan explains how she “follows” Nini into the next chapter, based on a previous quote, and how Joan's own travels influenced her writing about the Iu Mien of Thailand and Laos At about 35:00, Joan describes how Nini's injury in Southeast Asia serves as a vessel for a description of opium's uses/the way it's viewed in a variety of ways around the world  At about 36:15, Pete and Joan discuss the roles of anthropologists and their roles At about 38:30, Cara's chapter is highlighted, with Cara's relationship with her previously-absent father discussed   At about 41:00, Pete asks Joan to discuss the book's title-its genesis and connections to the book's events and characters  At about 42:30, Joan differentiates between mercy and forgiveness  At about 43:00, Pete compliments Joan's work in tracing a long but coherent storyline and her depiction of New York At about 44:10, Joan discusses an exciting upcoming project  At about 45:20, Pete and Joan discuss youth and innocence and aging as key parts    You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. 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If you're enjoying the content, please like, subscribe, and comment! Please consider supporting the show! https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/worldxppodcast/supportDr. Brands' Substack: https://hwbrands.substack.com/America First: https://www.amazon.com/America-First-Roosevelt-Lindbergh-Shadow/dp/0385550413 Dr. H. W. Brands was born in Portland, Oregon, and later moved to California for college. He attended Stanford University, where he studied history and mathematics. He continued his formal education, earning graduate degrees in mathematics and history, and eventually a doctorate in history from the University of Texas at Austin. He worked as an oral historian at the University of Texas Law School for a year, then became a visiting professor of history at Vanderbilt University. In 1987, he joined the history faculty at Texas A&M University, where he taught for seventeen years. In 2005, he returned to the University of Texas, where he holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History.He has written thirty books, coauthored or edited five others, and published dozens of articles and reviews. His work has 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, and many other publications. The First American and Traitor to His Class were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Prize.______________________Follow us!@worldxppodcast Instagram - https://bit.ly/3eoBwyr@worldxppodcast Twitter - https://bit.ly/2Oa7BzmSpotify - http://spoti.fi/3sZAUTGYouTube - http://bit.ly/3rxDvUL#history #historyfacts #charleslindbergh #fdr #roosevelt #america #american #americafirst #trump #churchill #hitler #ukraine #russia #germany #ww2 #wwii #ww1 #explore #explorepage #podcastshow #longformpodcast #longformpodcast #podcasts #podcaster #newpodcast #podcastshow #podcasting #newshow #worldxppodcast

Lauren Groff is the author of six books of fiction, the most recent the novel Matrix. Her work has won The Story Prize, the ABA Indies' Choice Award, and France's Grand Prix de l'Héroïne, was twice a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and the Kirkus Prize, and was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Prize, the Southern Book Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Prize. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and was named one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages. She lives in Gainesville, Florida. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the next few weeks, Storybound will honor 2021 National Book Awards finalists who have appeared on this show by re-airing their episodes. This week, Lauren Groff reads her short story "Flower Hunters" from her short story collection Florida, with sound design and music composition from Naomi LaViolette. Lauren Groff is the author of six books of fiction, the most recent the novel “Matrix” (September 2021). Her work has won The Story Prize, the ABA Indies' Choice Award, and France's Grand Prix de l'Héroïne, was twice a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and the Kirkus Prize, and was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Prize, the Southern Book Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Prize, and is a finalist for a 2021 National Book Award. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and was named one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages. She lives in Gainesville, Florida. Naomi LaViolette's original music has been reviewed by publications like Oregon Music News, The Oregonian, The Portland Tribune, Willamette Week, The Inessa Blog, KATU's AM Northwest, KINK.fm, and KMHD.fm. Her latest single was released in 2021. Support Storybound by supporting our sponsors: Norton brings you Michael Lewis' The Premonition: A Pandemic Story, a nonfiction thriller that pits a band of medical visionaries against a wall of ignorance as the COVID-19 pandemic looms. Scribd combines the latest technology with the best human minds to recommend content that you'll love. Go to try.scribd.com/storybound to get 60 days of Scribd for free. Finding You is an inspirational romantic drama full of heart and humor about finding the strength to be true to oneself. Now playing only in theaters. Acorn.tv is the largest commercial free British streaming service with hundreds of exclusive shows from around the world. Try acorn.tv for free for 30 days by going to acorn.tv and using promo code Storybound. Storybound is hosted by Jude Brewer and brought to you by The Podglomerate and Lit Hub Radio. Let us know what you think of the show on Instagram and Twitter @storyboundpod. *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy.  Since you're listening to Storybound, you might enjoy reading, writing, and storytelling. We'd like to suggest you also try the History of Literature or Book Dreams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's episode, Kendra talks with Lauren Groff about her book, Matrix, which is out now from Riverhead Books. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Books Mentioned Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff Florida by Lauren Groff Matrix by Lauren Groff Lauren Recommends Agatha of Little Neon by Claire Luchette 2666 by Roberto Bolaño, Translated by Natasha Wimmer Amulet by Roberto Bolaño, Translated by Chris Andrews Harrow by Joy Williams About the AuthorLauren Groff is the author of six books of fiction, the most recent the novel MATRIX (September 2021). Her work has won The Story Prize, the ABA Indies' Choice Award, and France's Grand Prix de l'Héroïne, was twice a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and the Kirkus Prize, and was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Prize, the Southern Book Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Prize. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and was named one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages. She lives in Gainesville, Florida. Website | Twitter CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us hello@readingwomenpodcast.com.  SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Miki Saito with Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

IAN MCEWAN is a novelist whose works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. He is the recipient of the Man Booker Prize for Amsterdam (1998), the National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award, and the Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction for Atonement (2003). His most recent novel is Machines Like Me (http://www.amazon.com/Machines-Like-Me-Ian-McEwan/dp/0385545118?SubscriptionId=AKIAJ6DR67ZTZ3XJCIHQ&tag=edgeorg-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=0385545118). Ian McEwan's Edge Bio Page (www.edge.org/memberbio/ian_mcewan)

Joan Silber's first book, the novel Household Words won the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her other works of fiction are In the City, In My Other Life, Lucky Us, Ideas of Heaven, finalist for the National Book Award and the Story Prize, The Size of the World, finalist for the Los Angeles Times Prize in Fiction, and Fools, longlisted for the National Book Award and finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Her latest novel is called Improvement.. 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.

This episode features Michael Collier reading from his latest collection Dark Wild Realm. Michael Collier has been the director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference for five years and has taught English at the University of Maryland, College Park, for fifteen years. His previous volumes of poetry are The Clasp and Other Poems, The Flooded Heart, The Neighbor, and most recently The Ledge, finalist for the Los Angeles Times Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Collier is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, NEA fellowships, and the Discovery/The Nation Award, among other honors.

This episode features Michael Collier reading from his latest collection Dark Wild Realm. Michael Collier has been the director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference for five years and has taught English at the University of Maryland, College Park, for fifteen years. His previous volumes of poetry are The Clasp and Other Poems, The Flooded Heart, The Neighbor, and most recently The Ledge, finalist for the Los Angeles Times Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Collier is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, NEA fellowships, and the Discovery/The Nation Award, among other honors.