JOHN HARMON McELROY is the editor of a history of Columbus’s voyages and a diary of the US Civil War (The Sacrificial Years) and is the author of three books on American cultural history (Finding Freedom; American Beliefs; and Divided We Stand). A professor emeritus of the University of Arizona, he also held faculty appointments at Clemson University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison and, as a Fulbright Professor of American Studies, at universities in Spain (Salamanca) and Brazil (Santa Catarina). In 1981 he taught at the English Seminar in Poznań, Poland. He is a graduate of Princeton University with a doctorate from Duke University and has just completed a book titled America’s Culture, Its Nature & Enemies: A Synopsis.