Executive editor and executive vice president at Random House and Pulitzer Prize-winning author for his 2008 biography, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, his latest book is Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush; former editor of Newsweek
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