Michael Knox Beran

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About The Author

Michael Knox Beran has written for The Wall Street JournalNational Review, and The New Yorker. A graduate of Columbia, Cambridge, and Yale Law School, he is a lawyer and lives in Westchester County, New York, with his wife and daughter.

Books by Michael Knox Beran

Forge of Empires

Three Revolutionary Statesmen and the World They Made, 1861-1871

In the space of a single decade, three leaders liberated tens of millions of souls, remade their own vast countries, and altered forever the forms of national power: Abraham Lincoln freed a subjugated race and transformed the American Republic. Tsar Alexander II broke the chains of the serfs an...
Jefferson's Demons

Portrait of a Restless Mind

"I have often wondered for what good end the sensations of Grief could be intended." -- Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson suffered during his life from periodic bouts of dejection and despair, shadowed intervals during which he was full of "gloomy forebodings" about what lay ahead.Not long before...
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