[  Authors:   A-C    D-F    G-J    K-L    M-N    O-R    S    T-Z  ]    Katherine Tallmadge RD, MA, author of Diet Simple (LifeLine Press), is a weight-loss and nutrition expert with a twenty-year private practice in Washington, DC. She is also a national spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association. A registered dietician with a master’s degree in behavioral science, Tallmadge has counseled ordinary people as well as many of the nation’s power brokers-congressmen and -women, diplomats, renowned journalists, and presidential cabinet members. Kenneth R. Timmerman, author of Shakedown: Exposing the Real Jesse Jackson and an investigative reporter with more than two decades of experience, has written for many newspapers and magazines, including Time, Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, Reader’s Digest, and the American Spectator, and has appeared on Nightline, 60 Minutes, and many other television programs. He lives in Maryland with his wife and five children. Edward Timperlake, author of The Year of the Rat: How Bill Clinton Compromised U.S. Security for Chinese Cash and Naval Academy graduate with an MBA from Cornell, has served as a Marine Corps fighter pilot, as a professional staffer in Congress, and in the Defense Department. He now serves on the board of the Vietnam Children’s Fund, a pro bono effort to rebuild elementary schools in Vietnam. Timperlake lives with his family near Annapolis, Maryland. William C. Triplett II, author of Rogue State and The Year of the Rat: How Bill Clinton Compromised U.S. Security for Chinese Cash, is the former chief Republican counsel to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He has more than thirty years of experience working on China and national security. He lives with his family near Annapolis, Maryland. Marilyn Tucker, author of The Nashville Diet, has specialized in natural medicine for over 20 years, and has a thriving nutritional counseling practice in Nashville. She was featured on the August 28th 2001 cover issue of Woman’s World Magazine with a feature story on her own personal weight struggle and the headline, “The Diet That’s Making Nashville Slim.” Sara Trollinger, Founder and President of the House of Hope, one of the most successful teen residential programs in the nation, can now help all parents prepare for the threats their teenagers faces in today’s society. In her book, Unglued and Tattooed, Trollinger gives parents practical advice on how to communicate effectively with their teenagers and steer them towards safe and realistic solution. R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., author of Madame Hillary, is founder and editor in chief of the American Spectator. His previous books include the New York Times bestseller Boy Clinton, The Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton, The Liberal Crack-Up, The Conservative Crack-Up, Public Nuisances, and The Future that Doesn’t Work: Social Democracy’s Failure in Britain. A nationally syndicated columnist, his articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun, Washington Times, National Review, Harper’s Commentary, The (London) Spectator, Le Figaro (Paris), and elsewhere. He is also an adjunct fellow of the Hudson Institute and a contributing editor to the New York Sun. Paul Vallely, U.S. Army (retired), coauthor of Endgame, served in the Army for thirty-two years and retired as deputy commanding general, U.S. Army, Pacific, in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is the senior military analyst for FOX News Channel, a regular guest lecturer and guest on nationally syndicated radio shows, and has served on numerous U.S. security assistance missions. He is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and served in many overseas theaters, as well as two combat tours in Vietnam. He now lives with his wife in Bigfork, Montana. Dale Van Atta, author of Trust Betrayed: Inside the AARP, wrote a nationally syndicated column (over 800 newspapers) with Jack Anderson for seven years. He is the author of Stormin’ Norman, the New York Times best-selling biography of Norman Schwarzkopf. He is now a full-time freelance journalist writing frequently for Reader’s Digest. He lives with his wife and children in Virginia. Balint Vazsonyi, author of America’s Thirty Years War: Who Is Winning?, is a Hungarian-born historian and world-renowned concert pianist. He is the director of the Center for the American Founding and writes for National Review, the Washington Times, the Indianapolis Star, and First Edition. He lives in Washington, DC. Dr. Kevin Vigilante, author of Low-Fat Lies, High-Fat Frauds, is a true activist, dedicating much of his time and medical talent to the medically under- served. He has cared for poor, minority women who suffer from drug addiction and the effects of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse. Having received his B.A. in Philosophy from Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Vigilante earned his Medical Degree from Cornell University in 1982, did his residency at Yale, and got his masters in Public Health at Harvard in 1991. Takesato Watanabe, coauthor of A Public Betrayed, is a professor of media ethics at Doshisha University in Kyoto and was a visiting scholar at Harvard University in 2001. He is the author of a dozen Japanese-language books, including Information Democracy and The People’s Right to Communicate (2000). He is coauthor of the Encyclopedia of Media & Communication Studies (1999). His next book, The Media and Power Structure in Modern Japan, 1945–2000, will be published in English in 2005 through Harvard University’s East Asia Monograph Series. Ben Wattenberg is the host of Think Tank, seen weekly on public television, and essayist of the PBS special Values Matter Most. His syndicated column appears in 200 newspapers. He is a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and worked as a speechwriter/assistant for President Lyndon Johnson, Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey and Sen. Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson. He lives in Washington, DC. Caspar W. Weinberger, author of In the Arena: A Twentieth Century Memoir, served in cabinet positions in the Nixon, Ford, and Reagan administrations, as well as in the California legislature and governor’s office. During the Second World War, he served with the Forty-first Infantry Division and later as a member of General Douglas MacArthur’s intelligence staff. He has been awarded the Medal of Freedom with Distinction, been named an Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II, and received the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun from Japan. A proud graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, he is currently chairman of Forbes, Inc. When not traveling the world for Forbes, he divides his time between Maine and Washington, DC. Jonathan Wells, author of Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth?, is no stranger to controversy. After spending two years in the US Army from 1964 to 1966, he entered the University of California at Berkeley to become a science teacher. When the Army called him back from reserve status in 1968, he chose to go to prison rather than continue to serve during the Vietnam War. He subsequently earned a Ph.D. in religious studies at Yale University, where he wrote a book about the nineteenth-century Darwinian controversies. In 1989 he returned to Berkeley to earn a second Ph.D., this time in molecular and cell biology. He is now a senior fellow at Discovery Institute’s Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture in Seattle, where he lives with his wife, two children, and mother. He still hopes to become a science teacher. Julian Whitaker runs the Whitaker Wellness Institute in Newport Beach, California, and is the editor of the nation’s leading health newsletter, Health & Healing. Dr. Whitaker received his medical degree at Emory University but turned away from conventional medicine to practice preventive medicine, using nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle changes as the primary treatment tools for patients with heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, and obesity. He is the author of several books including Reversing Heart Disease and Dr. Whitaker’s Guide to Natural Healing. From waitress to restaurant owner to head chef aboard the Chesapeake Bay charter skipjack Oyster Catcher, Suzanne Caciola White has been lovingly preparing and serving food for over two decades. When not sailing the seas in search of new flavors—and friends to share them with—Suzanne, author of The Daily Bean, and her husband live aboard their sailboat in Virginia. Tom Whittaker, author of Higher Purpose, has tackled some of the world’s tallest and most difficult mountains, including Mount Everest, Mount McKinley, the Matterhorn, and Aconcagua, in his three decades of climbing. He will soon become the first amputee to climb the “Seven Summits,” the highest peak on each of the world’s continents. In 1981 he founded the Cooperative Wilderness Handicapped Outdoor Group (“The HOGs”), a remarkable organization that gets the disabled out in the wilderness as physical and emotional therapy. Also an accomplished rock climber, kayaker, and river rafter, Whittaker taught for nine years at Prescott College (Arizona) in one of the nation’s premier adventure education and wilderness leadership programs. A much sought-after motivational trainer and speaker, he lives with his wife and two daughters in Arizona. Ian Wilson, author of Jesus: The Evidence, was born in London in 1941 and was educated at Emanuel School, Wandsworth and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated in modern history in 1963. During his early career he became deeply interested in the Turin Shroud, and articles based on his researches led to a commission to write a book on the subject. Published in the UK and US in 1978, this became a worldwide bestseller. Simultaneously, he co-authored a television documentary on the Shroud, The Silent Witness, which received wide acclaim and won the BAFTA award for TV documentary films. In 1979 Ian Wilson became a full-time author, his Jesus: The Evidence, published in 1984 as a companion to a major three-part TV series of the same name, proving another bestseller and attracting critical acclaim. Shakespeare: The Evidence was published in 1993 to comparable acclaim and The Bible: The Evidence is among his future projects. Bob Zelnick, author of Gore: A Political Life, is a former ABC News correspondent who over the course of more than two decades covered Capitol Hill, the Middle East, Russia, and the Pentagon. A graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, he is a frequent commentator in leading newspapers and magazines around the country. He has won numerous journalism awards, including two American Bar Association Gavel Awards and two Emmys. He now teaches at Boston University.