**David Reynolds *is professor of international history at Christ's College, Cambridge. A regular visitor to the United States for forty years, he is the multiple prizewinning author of thirteen books ranging across the modern world, including In Command of History and, most recently, Island Stories...

**David Reynolds *is professor of international history at Christ's College, Cambridge. A regular visitor to the United States for forty years, he is the multiple prizewinning author of thirteen books ranging across the modern world, including In Command of History and, most recently, Island Stories *. He lives in Cambridge, England.