William Nester is a professor at St. John's University in Queens, New York. He has written more than forty books on global politics/power and the history of warfare, including books about Europe's colonial wars in North America, Napoleon, Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles De Gaulle, and Winston Churchill. His book George Rogers Clark: "I Glory in War" received a 2013 Distinguished Writing Award from the Army Historical Foundation; bestselling author Douglas Brinkley praised it as "an important contribution to early U.S. history." He lives in Fresh Meadows, New York.