William I. Hitchcock is the James Madison Professor of History at the University of Virginia. In addition to A Shadow Over the World, he is the author of The Bitter Road to Freedom, a 2009 Pulitzer Prize finalist, and New York Times bestseller The Age of Eisenhower. His research focuses on global history during the two world wars and cold war era. Hitchcock has been a Fulbright Scholar,  a Fellow of the Nobel Institute in Oslo, the holder of the Henry Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress, and a Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. He is also a presidential counselor at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.