About the Author

Michael Kranish, has worked for The Boston Globe for twenty years, including the last sixteen in the newspaper's Washington Bureau. Brian C. Mooney has been a reporter for at The Boston Globe for sixteen years. Nina J. Easton, deputy chief of the Boston Globe's Washington bureau, is author of the critically acclaimed Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Ascendancy, which chronicles the rise of power of today's conservative movement.