Thomas Maier s biographies have garnered critical praise and have been listed among the Entertainment Weekly s Top 10 Must-Reads; the O, The Oprah Magazine Top 10 Books; the New York Times Notable Books of the Year; and Boston Globe s Top 10 Books of the Year; and have been a pick of the Book-of-the-Month Club and the History Book Club. Meier earned a master s degree in 1982 from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has been a writer for "Newsday" and the "Chicago Sun-Times". In 2002, he won the investigative prize from the International Consortium of Investigative Reporti...