Walter Isaacson - Walter Isaacson is the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute. He has been the Chairman and CEO of CNN and the Managing Editor of Time Magazine.
He is the author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003) and of Kissinger: A Biography (1992) and is the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986). His biography of Albert Einstein - Einstein: His Life and Universe - was released in April 2007.
Isaacson was born on May 20, 1952, in New Orleans. He is a graduate of Harvard College and of Pembroke College of Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
He began his career at the Sunday Times of London and then the New Orleans Times-Picayune/States-Item. He joined Time Magazine in 1978 and served as a political correspondent, national editor and editor of new media before becoming the magazine's 14th managing editor in 1996. He became Chairman and CEO of CNN in 2001, and then president and CEO of the Aspen Institute in 2003.
He was appointed after Hurricane Katrina to be the vice-chairman of the Louisiana Recovery Authority. He is on the Board of Directors of United Airlines, Tulane University, the National Constitution Center, and he is chairman of the board of Teach for America.
James Mann - James Mann, author-in-residence at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, is the author of four books, Beijing Jeep, About Face: A History of America's Curious Relationship with China from Nixon to Clinton, The Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet, and The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan.
He was previously the diplomatic correspondent and the foreign affairs columnist for the Los Angeles Times and served as the Beijing bureau chief from 1984 to 1987. He has also written for The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic and The Washington Post. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and lives in Maryland.
In The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan, New York Times bestselling author James Mann directs his keen analysis to Ronald Reagan's role in ending the Cold War.
Drawing on new interviews and previously unavailable documents, Mann offers a fresh and compelling narrative -- a new history assessing what Reagan did, and did not do, to help bring America's four-decade conflict with the Soviet Union to a close.