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David G. Dalin, author of The Myth of Hitler's Pope and an ordained rabbi, is a professor of history and political science at Ave Maria University in Naples, Florida. Rabbi Dalin is the author or co-author of several books,  including The Presidents of the United States and the Jews and (with Jonathan D. Sarna) Religion and State in the American Jewish Experience. His articles and reviews have appeared in American Jewish History,  Commentary, Conservative Judaism,  First Things, the Weekly Standard, and the American Jewish Year Book. He received his B.A. degree from the University of California at Berkeley, his M.A. and Ph.D. from Brandeis University, and his Rabbinic Ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

Mark W. Davis is the coauthor of Madame Hillary. As a White House speechwriter, he drafted the prime-time address before the U.S. Congress declaring President George H. W. Bush’s determination to evict Saddam Hussein’s forces from Kuwait. He has also served as a speechwriter to California governor Pete Wilson, served in the Republican National Committee during the Reagan years, and has advised many campaigns. Now a business consultant, he helped research Barbara Olson’s New York Times bestseller Hell to Pay, and is a frequent contributor to many national publications.

Brett M. Decker, author of Bowing to Beijing and Global Filipino, is the Editorial Page Editor of The Washington Times. A former Governor of the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents' Club, he has been an editor and writer for The Wall Street Journal, a reporter and television producer for Robert Novak, and speechwriter to Majority Whip Tom DeLay in the U.S. House of Representatives. Decker has served as Senior Vice President for the Export-Import Bank and Pentagon Federal Credit Union. A native of Michigan, he is a graduate of Albion College, the U.S. Naval War College and Johns Hopkins University, where he is an adjunct professor of government.

 

Jim DeFelice, author of Omar Bradley, is an award-winning writer, former political columnist, and prolific, bestselling author of more than three dozen military books and spy thrillers. His previous works explore the effects of war, politics, terrorism, and technology on soldiers and civilians. DeFelice lives with his family in Warwick, New York.

Kenneth E. DeGraffenreid, author of The Cox Report, is professor of Intelligence Studies at the Institute of World Politics. He served in the Reagan White House as senior director of intelligence programs at the National Security Council. He also served on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

 

James Delingpole, author of 365 Ways to Drive a Liberal Crazy and Welcome to Obamaland, terrorizes liberals on both sides of the Atlantic, writing for the conservative national newsweekly Human Events as well as The Times (of London), The Spectator, and The Daily Telegraph (where he helped break the Climategate story). He is the author of How to Be Right: The Essential Guide to Making Left Liberals History and several comic novels, including an ongoing series of World War II novels featuring Dick Coward.

Deke DeLoach, author of Hoover’s FBI, served as an FBI agent for more than twenty-eight years. He rose from field agent to deputy director—a position he kept until retiring from the Bureau in 1970—putting him third in line in the FBI hierarchy. After his service in the FBI, DeLoach served as vice president of PepsiCo for fifteen years. Following the death of Director Hoover, DeLoach was twice offered the directorship of the Bureau but chose to stay in corporate life. He currently lives on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, and serves as chairman of a mortgage banking company.

Lieutenant General Mike DeLong, USMC (retired), author of Inside CentCom, capped a distinguished thirty-six-year military career as deputy commander of United States Central Command. He is a graduate of the Naval Academy and a much-decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, the 1991 Gulf War, and other military actions. Gen. DeLong lives in Florida, where he is corporate vice president of Global Planning and Operations for the Shaw Group.

Chris DeRose, author of Founding Rivals, is an attorney and also serves as a political strategist for candidates in state and federal office. For the past fifteen years, he has been involved in campaigns at every level in five different states. DeRose lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

Ralph de Toledano, author and journalist, was formerly assistant chief of the Washington Bureau of Newsweek magazine. His coverage of the Hiss trial ultimately led him to write the 1950 bestseller Seeds of Treason. He is the author of numerous other books, including Spies, Dupes, and Diplomats and One Man Alone: Richard Nixon. His articles have appeared in The Washington Times, Reader’s Digest, National Review, and Chronicles, among others. He lives in Washington, DC.

Wade Dokken, author of New Century, New Deal: How To Turn Your Wages Into Wealth Through Social Security Choice, is president and chief executive officer of American Skandia, Inc., one of the fastest growing financial services companies in the United States. He lives with his wife and three sons in Weston, Connecticut.

Dinesh D’Souza, bestselling author of The Roots of Obama’s Rage, Life After Death, What’s So Great About Christianity, and What’s So Great About America, is the president of The King’s College in New York City. He is a former White House domestic policy analyst and research scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. His other bestselling books include Illiberal Education, and The End of Racism. Websites: dineshdsouza.com, tkc.edu.

Charlie Daniels, author of Ain’t No Rag, has recorded six platinum albums over his four-decade career, playing a combination of country, Southern rock, gospel, and rhythm & blues that can only be characterized as Charlie Daniels Band music. He has performed for U.S. troops all over the world and was honored by two U.S. presidents after he won the Pioneer Award from the Academy of Country Music in 1998. Born in Wilimington, North Carolina, Daniels and his wife, Hazel, live in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee.

Johnny Dodd, coauthor of Higher Purpose, has been on staff at People magazine since 1994. His writing has also appeared in Bike, Powder, Outside, the Los Angeles Times, and the Seattle Weekly. In 1995 he competed in the first Eco-Challenge endurance race.

James P. Duffy, author of Lindbergh vs. Roosevelt, is the author of fifteen previous books, most on military history. He has written extensively on World War II, as well as books on the American Civil War and on the rulers of Imperial Russia. He lives with his wife, two daughters, and granddaughter in New Jersey.

Lee Edwards, author of Goldwater, is a senior editor at The World and I, a monthly magazine of politics and culture. He is an adjunct professor of politics at Catholic University and sits as a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, Washington’s preeminent think tank. He is the author of eleven books, including The Conservative Revolution: The Movement That Remade America. He and his wife have two daughters and four grandchildren and reside in Virginia.

Erick Erickson, author of Red State Uprising, is managing editor of RedState.com, the largest online community of conservative activists and the most widely read right of center blog on Capitol Hill. He is also a regular political commentator on CNN’s John King, and often appears on top-tier radio and TV. Influential media personalities such as Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity read RedState.com and RedState’s Morning Briefing Newsletter daily, and frequently consult with Erick. Prior to RedState.com and CNN, Erickson was a lawyer and also worked as a political consultant assisting in presidential, congressional, state, and local elections. He lives in Macon, Georgia with wife and daughter.

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, author of The Secret Life of Bill Clinton, has built a stellar career as a journalist. He covered Central America for The Economist and The Daily Telegraph and has reported from the United States for both The Spectator and The Sunday Telegraph, for which he was Washington bureau chief. Cambridge-educated and internationally renowned, Evans-Pritchard has reluctantly returned to England, where he will serve as The Daily Telegraph’s roving European correspondent.

Michael Farris founded the Home School Legal Defense Association in 1983. An attorney, ordained Baptist minister, and former nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, he is a frequent commentator on national news networks. He and his wife home school their six daughters and four sons in Paeonian Springs, Virginia.

Don Feder, author of Who’s Afraid of the Religious Right?, has been a columnist and editorial writer for the Boston Herald for twelve years and is syndicated in forty newspapers nationwide. Prior to writing for the Herald, Feder practiced law in New York state, was editorial director of WEEI newsradio, and executive director of both the Second Amendment Foundation and Citizens for a Limited Taxation. Also the author of A Jewish Conservative Looks at pagan America, he lives with his family near Boston.

Randall Fitzgerald, author of Mugged by the State, was a Reader’s Digest contributing editor for twenty years and is now a full-time freelance writer. His articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Capitol Hill News, Houston Post, and other publications.

Cuban-born Humberto Fontova, author of Fidel, came to the United States when he was six years old and grew up in New Orleans. He is a graduate of the University of New Orleans and has an master's degree in Latin American studies from Tulane University. His critically acclaimed true-life adventure books are The Helldiver's Rodeo (a Publisher's Weekly "Book of the Week") and The Hellpig Hunt. Fontova writes and comments frequently on Latin American affairs for
both English- and Spanish-language media. He lives in New Orleans with his family.

Steve Forbes, author of Flat Tax Revolution and The New Birth of Freedom, is president and chief executive officer of Forbes and editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine. Forbes is also chairman of the company’s American Heritage division and publisher of American Heritage magazine and two quarterlies, American Legacy and American Heritage of Invention & Technology. In both 1996 and 2000, Forbes campaigned for the Republican nomination for the presidency. Key to his platform were a flat tax, medial savings accounts, a new Social Security system for working Americans, school choice, term limits, and a strong national defense. Forbes continues to promote this agenda. He lives with his wife and family in New Jersey.

David Freddoso, author of Gangster Government and the New York Times bestseller The Case Against Barack Obama, is a political reporter for The Washington Examiner. Previously he covered Capitol Hill for National Review Online and was a reporter for Human Events and the Evans-Novak Political Report. A graduate of Notre Dame and the Columbia School of Journalism, he lives with his family in Washington, D.C.

 

Kevin D. Freeman, author of Secret Weapon, is one of the world’s leading experts in economic warfare and financial terrorism. He is currently CEO of Freeman Global Holdings, LLC, and he previously worked for Franklin Templeton Investment Services. Freeman was also Chairman of Separate Solutions, Inc., which he co-founded. He has consulted for congressional members as well as past and present CIA, FBI, SEC, Homeland Security, and government department officials.

Mark Fuhrman, author of The Murder Business, is a retired LAPD homicide detective who gained national recognition during the O. J. Simpson case. That case was the subject of his first book, Murder in Brentwood, which became a New York Times bestseller. Since then, he has written five other books on crime and is currently employed as a FOX News consultant. Mark lives in North Idaho with his wife and two children.