John Marshall

Not only was John Marshall one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, what he did as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court was not just significant, but the glue that held the union together after the original founding days. When Marshall took it over, the judiciary was considered not very important at all. By the time Marshall left, the judiciary was considered co-equal to the other branches of the federal government.

Robert Strauss has been a reporter at Sports Illustrated; a feature writer for the Philadelphia Daily News; a news and sports producer for KYW-TV, then the NBC affiliate in Philadelphia, and the TV critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer and Asbury Park Press. For the last two decades, he has been a freelance journalist, his most prominent client being the New York Times, where he has had more than 1000 by-lines. He has taught non-fiction writing at the University of Pennsylvania since 1999 and been an adjunct professor at Temple University, the University of Delaware and St. Joseph's University as well. He is the author of Worst. President. Ever. among other books. He lives in Haddonfield, New Jersey.