Dr. Ben-Atar is the author of The Origins of Jeffersonian Commercial Policy and Diplomacy (1993); Forbidden Knowledge: Technology Piracy and Intellectual Property in the Early Republic (forthcoming), and editor, together with Barbara B. Oberg of Federalists Reconsidered. Dr. Ben-Atar has recently finished co-writing the memoirs of teenage years spent in the Nazi death camps. He is currently working on a study of the social and cultural history of Litchfield Connecticut.