Jeremi Suri

Jeremi Suri holds the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. He is a professor in the University’s Department of History and the LBJ School of Public Affairs. Jeremi is the author and editor of eleven books on contemporary politics and foreign policy, most recently Civil War By Other Means: America’s Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy . His other books include The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America’s Highest Office ; Henry Kissinger and the American Century ; Liberty’s Surest Guardian: American Nation-Building from the Founders to Obama ; and Foreign Policy Breakthroughs: Cases in Successful Diplomacy (with Robert Hutchings). Jeremi writes for major newspapers and magazines including the New York Times , Washington Post , Los Angeles Times , New York Daily News , Dallas Morning News , Houston Chronicle , Boston Globe , The Atlantic , Foreign Policy , Foreign Affairs , Fortune , The American Prospect an