New York, N.Y. Random House, 2015. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xv, [1], 619, [5] pages. DJ is price clipped. Footnotes. Illustrations. Acknowledgments, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Includes Introduction: The Fatalistic Optimist. Also includes Sections on The Striver; At the Mountaintop; and The Fall. Also includes Epilogue: Rise Again. Red dot on the bottom edge. Evan Welling Thomas III (born April 25, 1951) is an American journalist, historian, and author. He is the author of nine books, including two New York Times bestsellers. Thomas was a graduate of Phillips Academy, Harvard University (B.A.), and the University of Virginia School of Law (J.D.), from 1991 he was a reporter, writer, and editor at Newsweek for 24 years. Prior to that, he was at Time Magazine. Thomas began his reporting career at The Bergen Record in northeastern New Jersey. Thomas was, for 20 years, a regular panelist on the weekly public affairs TV show Inside Washington until the show ceased production in December 2013. He taught writing and journalism at Harvard and Princeton between 2003 and 2014. For seven years, from 2007 to 2014, he was the Ferris Professor of Journalism in residence at Princeton. More