Sam Tanenhaus, the former editor of The New York Times Book Review, is the author of Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America, The Death of Conservatism, and Whittaker Chambers: A Biography (winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize). His feature articles and essays have appeared in the Atlantic, New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, and many other publications in the U.S. and abroad. He is currently a contributing writer for the Washington Post.