Authors

William E. Leuchtenburg, a prominent 20th century historian, is the William Rand Kenan, Jr. professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He has won the Bancroft and Parkman prizes, and has written numerous books on Franklin D. Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, and the New Deal. He won the 2007 North Carolina Award for Literature.

Stuart Leuthner designs Chronos , the magazine for the connoisseur of fine timepieces. His latest book, Starlight on the Rails , will be published next year by HarperCollins.

Richard Levick, Esq., is Chairman and CEO of LEVICK, a strategic communications firm, and a frequent television, radio, online, and print commentator. He hosts regular podcasts in partnership with major magazines including the Corporate Counsel Business Journal, In-House Community (Asian-MENA Counsel), and American Heritage. Mr. Levick has co-authored five books including The Communicators: Leadership in the Age of Crisis; Stop the Presses; The Crisis and Litigation PR Desk Reference; 365 Marketing Meditations; and Lessons for Absent Children. You can follow him on Twitter @richardlevick. More info is at: Visit levick.com/about/richard-s-levick/  

Yuval Levin is the founder and editor of National Affairs and the director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He is also a senior editor at The New Atlantis, a contributing editor at National Review, and a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times. Dr. Levin is the author of six books, including American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation―and Could Again and The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left. He has published essays and articles in numerous publications, including Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Commentary, and is interviewed frequently on radio and television.

Alexandra Lee Levin, granddaughter of Fanny Knight, lives in Baltimore. She is now at work on a study of English women playwrights of the eighteen century.

David Levine is a freelance writer whose work has been published in the New York Times, American Heritage, Sports Illustrated and many other publications. He is a contributing writer at Hudson Valley Magazine, Arrive and Governing, among other publications. He is the author or co-author of six books about sports, among them Life on the Rim and In the Land of Giants. He lives in Albany, NY with his wife, Kimberly, and daughter, Grace.

Mr. Levine, an associate professor of history at Berkeley, is the author of Defender of the Faith , a study of William Jennings Bryan (1965), and co-editor of The Shaping of Twentieth Century America (1965) and The National Temper (1968). He is currently writing a study of Negro culture in twentieth-century America.

Robert A. Levy is chairman of the board of the Cato Institute and the organizer and financial backer behind District of Columbia v. Heller, the landmark 2008 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to gun ownership.  Mr. Levy's writing has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post, National Review, and many other publications. His latest book is The Dirty Dozen: How 12 Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom.  He frequently discusses public policy on national radio and TV programs, including ABC’s Nightline, Fox’s The O’Reilly Factor, PBS’s Newshour, and NBC’s Today Show.

Before becoming a professor of business history at the University of Michigan in 1966, David L. Lewis spent twelve years on the public relations staffs of Borden’s, Ford, and General Motors. He has published numerous articles on Henry Ford and his company in automotive journals and various other periodicals.

JAMES E. LEWIS, JR., is professor of history at Kalamazoo College. His books include The Louisiana Purchase: Jefferson’s Noble Bargain? and John Quincy Adams: Policymaker for the Union.

Michael Lewis, a senior editor at The New Republic and the author of Liar’s Poker , has just finished his first novel, The Troublemaker.

Philip H. Liberman, M.D. New York, N.Y.

Grace Lichtenstein is the Rocky Mountain correspondent for the New York Times .

Allan J. Lichtman is Distinguished Professor of History at American University, where he has taught since 1973.  Holding a B.A .magna cum laude from Brandeis University, he received his PhD from Harvard University in 1973.  The recipient of the university's Scholar/Teacher of the Year for 1992-93, he is the author of many books and has lectured widely in the United States and elsewhere.

Sir Basil (known as Capt. B.H. Littell Hart before he was knighted in 1966) was one of the 20th Century's foremost authorities on military tactics and strategy, and especially on mechanized warfare. After being highly decorated during World War I and surviving a gas attack, he retired from the British Army in 1927. Liddell Hart worked as the Military Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph from 1925–1935, and of The Times, 1935-1939. He then wrote a number of highly regarded military biographies, and books such as The Strategy of Indirect Approach (1941) and The Way to Win Wars (1942).

In addition to his writing, Michael S. Lief works as a senior deputy district attorney in Southern California. He co-authored The Devil's Advocates with H. Mitchell Caldwell in 2007 after previously writing And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: Greatest Closing Arguments Protecting Civil Liberties and Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury with Mr. Caldwell. "And the Walls Came Tumbling Down" was cited in a brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Kiyemba et. al. v. Obama. During the Cold War, Lief served in the United States Navy as a submarine driver.

Paul R. Lilly has been a schoolteacher, a parole officer, and a construction worker in West Virginia. Now retired, he lives in Lewisburg.

Eric Lindner is an attorney and businessman, and the author of Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival, which tells the harrowing story of a flight piloted by his father-in-law, John Murray, that crashed in the North Atlantic. His first book, Hospice Voices: Lessons for Living at the End of Life, was based on Lindner's work as a hospice volunteer, helping patients cope with the reality of dying.  Mr. Lindner's career has mostly focused on parking and real estate in the U.S. and Europe as Chairman and CEO of Colonial Parking based in Washington, DC. He has also worked in criminology, clerked for a U.S. Attorney, and served as a George Washington University trustee for nine years.

David Lindsay is the author of Madness in the Making: The Triumphant Rise and Untimely Fall of America’s Show Inventors (Kodansha International, 1997).

Les Line is editor of Audubon , the magazine of the National Audubon Society, and is writing books on The World of the Nature Photographer and on the history and natural history of the Great Lakes region.

Richard Lingeman, executive editor of The Nation , is author of Don’t You Know There’s a War On? , Small Town America , and a two-volume biography of Dreiser.

Andro Linklater’s book Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy is being published in November by Walker & Company.

The late Robert N. Linscott, a former editor of Random House, had retired to a farmstead in Ashfield, Massachusetts, when, in 1960, he first encountered the papers of Sylvester Judd. This article was sent to us by his wife.

A former resident of Concord, David B. Little now lives in Salem, Massachusetts, where he is director of the noted Essex Institute, which operates a historical museum, research library, and five houses that date from 1684 to 1804.

Leon Litwack is the A.F. and May T. Morrison Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, former president of the Organization of American Historians (OAH, and Pulitzer-prize winning author. His publications include North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860 (1961); Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery (1980), winner of the Pulitzer and Francis Parkman prizes; Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (1998); and How Free is Free? The Long Death of Jim Crow (2009).

Ray Locker is the author of Haig's Coup: How Richard Nixon's Closest Aide Forced Him from Office and Nixon's Gamble: How a President’s Own Secret Government Destroyed His Administration. Previously, he was Washington enterprise editor at USA TODAY, where he supervised coverage of the White House, military, money in politics and health care.  His work as a reporter and editor has been nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes.

Heather Lockman is a freelance writer who continues to volunteer at the Bigelow House Museum and frequently teaches workshops on historic home preservation. The Bigelow House is open on weekends from 1:00 to 3:00 P.M. For more information, call 360-753-1215.

James L. Loewen is a sociologist, professor, and author whose best-known work is Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, published in 1995. It has sold a reported 1,500,000 copies. Loewen taught race relations at the University of Vermont for 20 years before starting a visiting professorship teaching sociology at the Catholic University of America in 1997. More information is at his website: Visit sundown.tougaloo.edu/

Andy Logon is a New Yorker writer who, incidentally, voted happily for both Jack and Bobby Kennedy.

Mr. Lomask was the author of Beauty and the Traitor: The Story of Mrs. Benedict Arnold. Other books by Mr. Lomask include The Curé of Ars (1958), John Carroll, Bishop and Patriot (1956), St. Augustine and His Search for Faith (1957), and St. Isaac and the Indians (1956). General Phil Sheridan and the Union Cavalry (1959), is in Kennedy's American Background Books; he also coauthored St. Thomas and the Preaching Beggars (1957).

Alfred F. Loomis, associate editor of Yachting magazine and of the English publication Yachts and Yachting , has been writing about sailing since 1912. Among his many books are Ocean Racing and (with Herbert L. Stone) Millions for Defense , a history of the America’s Cup.

—Phillip Lopate’s latest essay collection is a volume of film criticism, Totally, Tenderly, Tragically . He teaches at Hofstra University.

Enrique Hank Lopez is a free-lance writer as well as an international lawyer. He is currently working on a book about Harvard University.

The Titanic is Walter Lord’s hobby and passion; he has been in touch with over 100 survivors, rescuers and others connected with the disaster and sifted out all the conflicting evidence and legend. On such research he has based this article and his book, A Night To Remember (just published by Henry Holt), which should remain a classic of the sea. He is a Yale law graduate and an advertising executive.

Mr. Lord is a British writer-producer currently working in New York City for NBC-TV News. He wrote and produced a documentary called Four Days to Omaha , which was televised by NBC in 1968 and which will be repeated this year. In World War II he was an infantry platoon commander with a British division and fought in Normandy.

Robert Love is the Managing Editor of Rolling Stone.

Sylvia Lovegren is the author of Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads (Hungry Minds, 1995).

Frances Low, wife of New York City Councilman Robert Low, is a freelance writer living in New York. Among her sources for this article was Empire State, A Pictorial Record of Its Construction , by Vernon H. Bailey (W. E. Rudge, 1931). For further reading on Lewis Hine: Judith Mara Gutman’s Lewis Hine and the American Social Conscience (Walker, 1967).

David Lowe, a former editor of AMERICAN HERITAGE , is now a free-lance writer and frequent contributor to our pages. He is currently at work on a book for Houghton Mifflin about great Chicago architecture that has been destroyed.

Sara Lowen is the associate editor of Baltimore magazine.