Robert Dallek is the author of John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life, 1917-1963 , Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President __and Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power. He won the Bancroft Prize in 1980 for his classic Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945 , and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Society of American Historians, for which he served as president from 2004 to 2005. He lives in Washington, DC.