New York Times bestselling author HW Brands was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Franklin Roosevelt, The First American and Traitor to His Class, respectively. Ranging in topic from Aaron Burr and Andrew Jackson to the Vietnam War and Bill Gates, his more than two dozen other books “weave together keen political history with anecdote and marvelous sense of place” (The Boston Globe). He currently chairs the history department at the University of Texas at Austin. In his new biography of Ronald Reagan, Brands provides fresh perspective on the importance of the 40th President’s unlikely ascension and consequential legacy.