Robert A Rosenstone, a Professor of History at the California Institute of Technology for fifty years, has published fifteen books, including works of biography, history, criticism, and fiction. He has won three Fulbright fellowships, four from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and has been a Fellow at the Getty Research Institute and the East-West Center in Honolulu. Rosenstone has served as a visiting faculty member at the University of St. Andrews, the European University Institute in Florence, the University of Barcelona, Manchester University, Kyushu University in Japan, Tolima U...