Kevin R. C. Gutzman is a professor of history at Western Connecticut State University and the author, most recently, of Thomas Jefferson, Revolutionary: A Radical’s Struggle to Remake America (St. Martin’s, 2017) and James Madison and the Making of America (St. Martin’s, 2012). His other books are the New York Times bestseller The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution, Virginia’s American Revolution: From Dominion to Republic, 1776-1840 and (with Thomas Woods) Who Killed the Constitution? The Federal Government vs. American Liberty from World War I to Barack Obama.