Historian and journalist Richard Brookhiser is the author of several books about the Founding Fathers, including What Would the Founders Do? Our Questions, Their Answers. Previous books include Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington; Rules of Civility: The 110 Precepts That Guided Our First President in War and Peace; Alexander Hamilton, American; America’s First Dynasty: The Adamses 1735–1918; and Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, The Rake Who Wrote the Constitution.

A senior editor at National Review, Brookhiser is also a political columnist for The New York Observer. His freelance writing has appeared in publications such as American Heritage, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Time, Vanity Fair, and many others.

Brookhiser curated the museum exhibit “Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America,” which ran at The New-York Historical Society in 2004–2005. He also wrote and hosted the PBS program Rediscovering George Washington. He has spoken at venues ranging from the Air Force Academy to Mount Vernon to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

A graduate of Yale University, Brookhiser received an honorary degree from Washington College. He resides in New York City.