David Nasaw is the author of The Patri­arch, select­ed by the New York Times as one of the 10 Best Books of the Year and a 2013 Pulitzer Prize Final­ist in Biog­ra­phy; Andrew Carnegie, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, the recip­i­ent of the New-York His­tor­i­cal Soci­ety’s Amer­i­can His­to­ry Book Prize, and a 2007 Pulitzer Prize Final­ist in Biog­ra­phy; and The Chief, which was award­ed the Ban­croft Prize for His­to­ry and the J. Antho­ny Lukas Book Prize for Non­fic­tion. He is a past pres­i­dent of the Soci­ety of Amer­i­can His­to­ri­ans, and until 2019 he served as the Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Pro­fes­sor of His­to­ry at the CUNY Grad­u­ate Center.