Alan Axelrod, PhD, is the author of many books on history, leadership, and military history, including How America Won World War I, Miracle at Belleau Wood: The Birth of the Modern U.S. Marine Corps, The Gilded Age, Lost Destiny: Joe Kennedy Jr. and the Doomed WWII Mission to Save London, and Generals South, Generals North: The Commanders of the Civil War Reconsidered. He has taught at University of Iowa, Lake Forest College, and Furman University. He was most recently a creative consultant for The Great War in the PBS American Experience television series.
