Five Days In Philadelphia: 1940, Wendell Willkie, FDR, and the Political Convention that Freed FDR to Win World War II
Charles Petersmanaged John F. Kennedy's 1960 primary in West Virginia's largest county, then moved to Washington D.C. to help launch the Peace Corps and to found theWashington Monthly, which he edited for thirty-one years. He won the Columbia Journalism Award and the first Richard M. Clurman award for mentoring young journalists, such as James Fallows, Nicholas  Lemann, Michael Kinsley, and Pulitzer Prize winners Katharine Boo and Taylor Branch. His previous books includeHow Washington Really Works, which theNew York Timescalled, "wise, funny."