Arthur Brooks is an acclaimed author, professor at the Harvard University, and columnist at The Atlantic, where he writes the popular weekly “How to Build a Life” column.

Brooks is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 13 books, including Build the Life You Want in 2023, coauthored with Oprah Winfrey, and From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life. He is one of the world’s leading experts on the science of human happiness, appearing in the media and traveling the world to teach people how they can live happier lives and bring greater well-being to others.

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Larry Sabato is a New York Times best-selling author, Emmy Award winner and respected political analyst! He directs Sabato’s Crystal Ball website, a leader in accurately predicting elections since its inception, and he is the author or editor of two dozen books on American politics.

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Doris Kearns Goodwin is a world-renowned presidential historian, public speaker and Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times #1 best-selling author. Since 2020, she has served as executive producer for the History Channel’s miniseries events “Washington,” “Abraham Lincoln,”, and “Theodore Roosevelt” with more to come!

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James Carville is America’s best-known political consultant. His long list of electoral successes evidences a knack for steering overlooked campaigns to unexpected landslide victories and for re-making political underdogs into upset winners. 

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George F. Will is the country’s most widely read political columnist, as well as its foremost conservative voice. His popular twice-weekly column for The Washington Post syndicate reaches 400 newspapers throughout the United States and Europe. Perhaps there’s no political acumen more finely honed than Will’s. And perhaps no one has more or better insights into the issues and political realities of today. 

Jon Meacham is a presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. As a skilled orator with a depth of knowledge about politics, religion and current affairs, Meacham brings historical context to the issues and events impacting our daily lives.

His New York Times Best Seller, The Soul of America, The Battle for our Better Angels, examines the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in U.S history, when hope overcame division and fear.