John J. Miller is the author of The Big Scrum: How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football. He writes for National Review, the Wall Street Journal, and other publications. The First Assassin, a Civil War thriller published in 2010, is his first novel. His nonfiction books include Our Oldest Enemy, A Gift of Freedom, and The Unmaking of Americans. The Chronicle of Higher Education has called him "one of the best literary journalists in the country." A native of Detroit, he lives on a dirt road in rural Michigan.
