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name: Kevin R.C. Gutzman
about: Kevin R. C. Gutzman is the New York Times best-selling author of five books--with a sixth forthcoming. Professor of History at Western Connecticut State University, Gutzman holds a bachelor’s degree, a master of public affairs degree, and a law degree from the University of Texas at Austin, as well as an MA and a PhD in American history from the University of Virginia. Happy to be a former attorney, Gutzman devotes his intellectual energy to teaching courses in the Revolutionary and constitutional history of the United States, to writing books and articles in these fields, and to public speaking on related topics.Dr. Gutzman's first book was the New York Times best-seller The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution, an account of Am Kevin R. C. Gutzman is the New York Times best-selling author of five books--with a sixth forthcoming. Professor of History at Western Connecticut State University, Gutzman holds a bachelor’s degree, a master of public affairs degree, and a law degree from the University of Texas at Austin, as well as an MA and a PhD in American history from the University of Virginia. Happy to be a former attorney, Gutzman devotes his intellectual energy to teaching courses in the Revolutionary and constitutional history of the United States, to writing books and articles in these fields, and to public speaking on related topics.Dr. Gutzman's first book was the New York Times best-seller The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution, an account of American constitutional history from the pre-Revolutionary days to the present. This work is unique in joining the fruits of the latest scholarship, a very readable presentation, and a distinctly Jeffersonian point of view. His second book, Virginia’s American Revolution: From Dominion to Republic, 1776-1840, explores the issue what the Revolutionaries made of the Revolution in Thomas Jefferson’s home state. After that, he co-authored Who Killed the Constitution? The Federal Government vs. American Liberty from World War I to Barack Obama with New York Times best-selling author Thomas E. Woods, Jr. and wrote James Madison and the Making of America--a Main Selection of the History Book Club. Most recently, he wrote Thomas Jefferson--Revolutionary: A Radical's Struggle to Remake America (St. Martin's Press, 2017), a selection of the History Book Club. His latest, coming on December 13, 2022 from St. Martin's Press, is The Jeffersonians: The Visionary Presidencies of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe.Gutzman has edited new editions of John Taylor of Caroline’s Tyranny Unmasked and New Views of the Constitution of the United States. His essay “Lincoln as Jeffersonian: The Colonization Chimera” appeared in editor Brian Dirck’s collection Lincoln Emancipated: The President and the Politics of Race, and his "James Madison and the Ratification of the Constitution: A Triumph Over Adversity" appeared in editor Stuart Leiberger's collection A Companion to James Madison and James Monroe (Blackwell 2012)."Gutzman has appeared on over 500 radio programs, on Dave Rubin's and Tom Woods' popular podcasts (among others), on syndicated shows such as The Michael Medved Show, the Janet Parshall Show, and the Curtis Sliwa Show and multiple programs on Air America, on Sirius Satellite Radio (including as guest host), on America's Radio News Network, as well as on C-SPAN 2's "BookTV," CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight," and Fox News's "The Glenn Beck Program." He has also been interviewed by reporters from the AP, the Washington Times, the Philadelphia Enquirer, the Washington Post, The Hartford Business Journal, the Houston Chronicle online, and the New York Times.Kevin Gutzman was a featured expert in the documentary films “John Marshall: Citizen, Statesman, Jurist," "Nullification: The Rightful Remedy," and "Safeguard: An Electoral College Story." ...more