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Former Chief of Staff for President George H.W. Bush; New York Times Best-selling Author

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Damon Young

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John W. Dower

Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Co-Founder of MIT's "Visualizing Cultures" Project & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

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