Andrew CarrollSpeaker and Booking Agent Information

Carrolls interest in letters began in 1989 after his home in Washington, D.C. burned down. Although no one was hurt in the fire, all of Carrolls possessions, including his letters, were destroyed. The loss prompted Carroll to realize the value of letters and how important it is to preserve them for posterity.

Carroll is fast becoming one of the nations foremost military historians, and his efforts to promote the value of letters and the art of letter-writing have been profiled on Oprah, NBCs Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, FOX News, CNN, The History Channel (two different documentaries), C-Span, National Public Radio, CBS Sunday Morning, the Today Show, Good Morning America, and Nightline (which devoted a full broadcast to the Legacy Project). Carroll was featured as a Person of the Week on ABCs World News Tonight.

Carroll andor his Legacy Project have also been profiled in the New York Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, New York Times Sunday Magazine, US News & World Report, Newsweek, Time magazine, and almost every major newspaper in the United States. Carroll has also been a contributing editor andor writer to many local and national publications, including Time magazine, the New Yorker, Guideposts, and National Geographic.

In 2001, Carroll revived the Armed Services Editions (ASEs), which are pocket-sized books made especially for the military and handed out to U.S. troops abroad. More than 1,300 titles in all were first published during World War II, including mysteries, biographies, crime stories, adventure novels, and classic works of literature. (The original ASEs were discontinued in 1947.) Carroll has been working with major publishers to reissue them, and he has distributed hundreds of thousands of free ASEs to U.S. servicemen and women around the world, including thousands of books he personally handed out in Iraq.

Carroll graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University in 1993, and, among other accolades, he is the recipient of the DARs Medal of Honor; The Order of Saint Maurice, bestowed by the National Infantrymans Association; and The Free Spirit Award, presented by the Freedom Forum.