David Nasaw is the Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center and the current president of the Society of American Historians. Hiss most recent publication, “The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy,” was selected by the New York Times as one of the Ten Best Books of the Year and was a 2013 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Biography. He is also the author of “Andrew Carnegie,” a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, the recipient of the New-York Historical Society’s American History Book Prize, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.