A Note on the Author

Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the codirector of the Group in Military History and Contemporary Conflict; a professor of classics emeritus at California State University, Fresno; and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services. He is also the Wayne & Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History, Hillsdale College, where each fall semester he teaches courses in military history and classical culture. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in classics, was a member of the American School of Classical Studies, Athens, and received his B.A. with highest honors in classics from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He lives on his farm in Selma, California, where he was born in 1953.