The Eleventh Day

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is the author of seven bestselling nonfiction books. After leaving Oxford University, he worked in television, becoming a senior journalist for the BBC’s flagship current-affairs program. He covered the United States, the Middle East, and the Vietnam War. His previous books have included biographies of President Richard Nixon and FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.

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Summers’s coauthor and wife, graduated from Smith College. They have been partners on three books, have contributed to

Vanity Fair

, and have been consultants on documentaries for PBS, the History Channel, CNN, and the BBC.