FERGUS M. BORDEWICH is the author of Centennial: The Great Fair of 1876 and the Invention of America’s Future (Knopf) and nine previous nonfiction books, including Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction; The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government, which won the 2019 D. B. Hardeman Prize in American History; America’s Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union, named best history book of 2012 by the Los Angeles Times; ak Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America’s First Civil Rights Movement. Bordewich lives in Washington, D.C., and Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Jean Parvin Bordewich, a playwright and the president of Guilford College.
