Summer 2002

Michael Nelson is professor of political science at Rhodes College. A former editor of The Washington Monthly, he has published twenty books on the American presidency, national elections, and higher education. In recent years he has written articles for VQR about Abraham Lincoln, C. S. Lewis, Garrison Keilloir, Frank Sinatra, Ward Just, Stephen Carter, Robert Caro, and other subjects. More than forty of his articles have been anthologized in works of political science, history, and English composition.

Melvin I. Urofsky is Professor Emeritus of History at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he continues as director of the doctoral program in public policy. The author or editor of more than fifty books and one hundred articles, his work in recent years has focused on constitutional history. He has recently been awarded an NEH Senior Fellowship to write a biography of Justice Louis D. Brandeis.