About the Contributors

Steven Forde is Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas. He is the author of The Ambition to Rule: Alcibiades and the Politics of Imperialism in Thucydides and several articles on classical and modern political philosophy including American political thought.

Mackubin Thomas Owens is professor of strategy and force planning at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, where he also teaches courses on the American Founding and U.S. civil-military relations. He is a regular columnist for The Providence Journal.

Colleen Sheehan is Associate Professor of Political Science at Villanova University, and has served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. She is the co-editor of Friends of the Constitution: Writings of the Other Federalists 1787-1788, and is currently working on a book exploring the political and ethical thought of Jane Austen.

Matthew Spalding is Director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. He is the co-author of A Sacred Union of Citizens: George Washington's Farewell Address and the American Character and co-editor of Patriot Sage: George Washington and the American Political Tradition.

C. Bradley Thompson is an Associate Professor and Chairman of the Department of History and Politics at Ashland University, in Ashland, Ohio. He is the author of John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty and the editor of The Revolutionary Writings of John Adams.

Dorothea Wolfson is a Teaching Fellow in American Government at the Johns Hopkins University. She has taught at Loyola University in Baltimore, Maryland, and collaborated with William J. Bennett on Our Sacred Honor: Words of Advice from the Founders in Stories, Letters, Poems and Speeches.