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1. Edmund Morris

   Author of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Rex, Colonel Roosevelt
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2. Robert A. Caro

   Author of The Path to Power, Means of Ascent, Master of the Senate
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3. David McCullough

   Author of Truman, John Adams, Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt
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4. David Pietrusza

   Author of 1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Transformed America, 1960: LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies, 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
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5. Robert Dallek

   Author of Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power, Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960, An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
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6. Rick Perlstein

   Author of Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
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7. Bob Woodward

   Author of The Final Days, Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate, All the President's Men
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8. Theodore H. White

   Author of The Making of the President 1960, The Making of the President 1964, The Making of the President 1968
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9. Alexis de Tocqueville

   Author of Democracy in America {abridged}, Democracy in America, Democracy in America; and Two essays on America
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10. Richard Hofstadter

    Author of The Age of Reform, The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made it, The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays
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11. Jon Meacham

    Author of American Lion, Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
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12. Kim Phillips-Fein

    Author of Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan
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13. Robert A. Slayton

    Author of Empire Statesman: The Rise and Redemption of Al Smith
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14. Glenn Beck

    Author of The Original Argument: The Federalists' Case for the Constitution, Adapted for the 21st Century, Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine, Broke: The Plan to Restore Our Trust, Truth and Treasure
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15. Doris Kearns Goodwin

    Author of No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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16. G. Calvin Mackenzie

    Author of The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s
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17. James Chace

    Author of 1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs--The Election that Changed the Country, Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World
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18. Nancy Gibbs

    Author of The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity
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19. Legs McNeil

    Author of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
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20. Michael McGerr

    Author of The Decline of Popular Politics: The American North, 1865-1928
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21. Ronald C. White

    Author of American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
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22. Jeffrey Frank

    Author of Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage
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23. Alexander Hamilton

    Author of The Federalist Papers
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24. Robert Klara

    Author of The Hidden White House: Harry Truman and the Reconstruction of America’s Most Famous Residence, FDR's Funeral Train: A Betrayed Widow, a Soviet Spy, and a Presidency in the Balance
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25. Joseph J. Ellis

    Author of His Excellency: George Washington, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
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26. Emma Goldman

    Author of Anarchism and Other Essays
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27. Clinton Heylin

    Author of Babylon's Burning: From Punk to Grunge, The Double Life of Bob Dylan: A Restless, Hungry Feeling, 1941-1966, From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World
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28. Dominic Sandbrook

    Author of Eugene McCarthy: The Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism
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29. Jimmy Carter

    Author of An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood, White House Diary
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30. Susan Dunn

    Author of 1940 : FDR, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler--The Election amid the Storm
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31. David Halberstam

    Author of The Fifties, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War, The Best and the Brightest
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32. John W. Dean

    Author of Conservatives without Conscience, The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It, Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches
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33. Greil Marcus

    Author of Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century, In the Fascist Bathroom: Punk in Pop Music, 1977-1992, Mystery train : images of America in rock 'n' roll music
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34. Edmund Wilson

    Author of To the Finland Station
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35. David Herbert Donald

    Author of Lincoln
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36. John C. Culver

    Author of American Dreamer: The Life and Times of Henry A. Wallace
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37. H. W. Brands

    Author of Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times
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38. Tom Wicker

    Author of One of Us: Richard Nixon and the American Dream
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39. Michael Kazin

    Author of The Populist Persuasion: An American History, A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan
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40. Lynne Olson

    Author of Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941
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41. Thomas Frank

    Author of What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America, The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule
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42. Simon Reynolds

    Author of Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984, Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-first Century
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43. Ralph Ketcham

    Author of The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates
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44. Elizabeth Sanders

    Author of Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917
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45. Jules Witcover

    Author of Very Strange Bedfellows: The Short and Unhappy Marriage of Richard Nixon & Spiro Agnew
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46. Frank Freidel

    Author of The Presidents of the United States of America
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47. Thurston Clarke

    Author of JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President
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48. Candice Millard

    Author of Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President, The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
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49. Richard Reeves

    Author of President Nixon: Alone in the White House
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50. Del Quentin Wilber

    Author of Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan
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