Jay Winik
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Jay Winik, one of the nation's leading historians, is renowned for his gifted and creative approaches to history. He is the author of The New York Times and #1 bestseller April 1865 (2001), which received wide international acclaim and became an award-wining documentary on the History Channel, watched by 50 million viewers.
His prior book to 1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History, is The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World 1788-1800 (HarperCollins, 2007), which was a New York Times bestseller and a Best Book of the Year for both USA Today and the Christian Science Monitor, as well as a main selection of the Book of the Month club and the History Book club. In the UK it was also selected for the prestigious Financial Times list of best books of the year. Reviewed separately by three distinguished Pulitzer Prize winners, David Shribman in The Wall Street Journal hailed it as a “remarkable work,” Joseph Ellis in the New York Times praised Winik as a “born storyteller,” while in the New York Review of Books, Gordon Wood, the dean of early American historians, called the book “superb.”
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