Harlow Giles Unger
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Harlow Giles Unger

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HARLOW GILES UNGER is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster, educator, and historian. A New York Times Bestselling author of more than 30 books, he is a former Distinguished Visiting Fellow in American History at George Washington’s Mount Vernon. Among his books, "Lafayette" won the American Revolution Round Table Book Prize and the Daughters of the American Revolution book award among others. His best-seller, "The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness," earned him the Washington Post designation as a "Premier Presidential Biographer." Among his other books are biographies of Patrick Henry ("Lion of Liberty"); Lafayette; John Quincy Adams, John Marshall, George Washington, and, most recently, Thomas Paine. Cited by one critic as “America’s most readable historian,” he is a graduate of Yale University and spent many years as a foreign correspondent for leading newspapers and magazines. He is a former associate professor of English and journalism and author of many books on American education as well as American history. These include the popular "But What if I Don't Want to Go to College? A Guide to Success Through Alternative Education" and the award-winning, three volume Encyclopedia of American Education, a standard reference in academic and reference libraries.
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