DOUG CUMMING is an assistant professor of journalism at Washington and Lee University, a former Nieman Fellow, and a George Polk Award-winning journalist. He lives in Lexington, VA.
HODDING CARTER III is a professor of Public Policy at the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina, a former Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, and the author of The Reagan Years and The South Strikes Back. He lives in Chapel Hill, NC.