Donald L. Miller is the John Henry McCracken Professor of History at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. He is the host of the PBS series A Biography of America. His articles and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Washington Post, among other publications. He is the author of five previous books, including Lewis Mumford: A Life, a New York Times notable book, and City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America, which won a Great Lakes book award for nonfiction and is the basis of a forthcoming documentary series for The American Experience on PBS Henry Steele Commager was a well-known American historian who taught at Columbia University and Amherst College. His many books won numerous prizes. He died in 1998 at age 95
