Ronald C. White’s new biography, On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, was published in October 2023. Ron is also the narrator for the audiobook, and the paperback edition will be published on November 12.

Originally a Bowdoin College professor, Gen. Chamberlain’s big moment was the famous bayonet charge at Gettysburg. After the war he served as governor of Maine and president of Bowdoin. He became a prominent figure in the literary battles of the so-called “Second Civil War,” the period beginning in the 1870s when Civil War veterans wrote in defense of their actions in the war.

Ron is the author of two New York Times bestselling presidential biographies: A. Lincoln: A Biography in 2009, and American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant in 2016. USA Today said, “If you read one book about Lincoln, make it A. Lincoln.” His American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant won our Seward Award—our award!—for “Excellence in Civil War Biography.” Other books include Lincoln’s Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural in 2002, The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words in 2005, and Lincoln in Private: What His Most Personal Reflections Tell Us About Our Greatest President in 2021.

White is a graduate of UCLA and Princeton Theological Seminary and received a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He is a Senior Fellow at the Trinity Forum in Washington, D.C., and has taught at UCLA, Whitworth University, Colorado College, and Princeton Theological Seminary.

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