Eric Burns is a former correspondent for NBC News and the TODAY Show. For ten years he was the host of the top-rated Fox News Watch, and he has won an Emmy for media criticism. He is the author of 1920: The Year that Made the Decade Roar, Infamous Scribblers, The Spirits of America, andThe Smoke of the Gods, and the latter two were named Best of the Best by the American Library Association. Eric lives in Westport, Connecticut.