Richard Brookhiser is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, a senior editor of National Review, and a columnist for American History. His books include John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court, Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln (Basic Books, 2014), and several other books on revolutionary America: Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington; Rules of Civility: The 110 Precepts That Guided Our First President in War and Peace; Alexander Hamilton, American; America’s First Dynasty: The Adamses 1735-1918; Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution; What Would the Founders Do? Our Questions, Their Answers; and George Washington on Leadership. He is author and host of two films for PBS by Michael Pack: Rediscovering George Washington (2002) and Rediscovering Alexander Hamilton (2011). He was the historian curator of “Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America,” a 2004 exhibition at the New-York Historical Society. In 2008 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal.