About the Author

James Robert Carroll has been a reporter for three decades, covering Washington since 1983. A graduate of Boston University, he started his career as a correspondent for The Boston Globe, then worked for The Daily Transcript in Dedham and the now-defunct Beverly Times, both in Massachusetts, and was a writer and editor at Boston's WEEI radio when it was an all-news station. He covered California government and politics in Sacramento for The Orange County Register for more than five years before moving to Washington for the Long Beach (California) Press-Telegram and Knight-Ridder Newspapers. He joined The Louisville Courier-Journal as its Washington reporter in 1997. Among other honours, Carroll has won the National Press Club's award for best regional reporter in Washington and the National Press Foundation's award for energy and environmental reporting. He is also the author of 'The Real Woodrow Wilson: An Interview with Arthur S Link', Editor of the Wilson Papers. Carroll has long had a deep and abiding interest in Ireland and its history and culture. He and his wife, Carol Vernon, and their daughters Fiona and Brenna, live in Alexandria, Virginia.