Michael Kranish, deputy chief of the Boston Globe's Washington Bureau, has been a congressional reporter, White House correspondent and national political reporter. He has produced major articles about the history of the Bush family and Senator John F. Kerry. Kranish co-authored, with other Globe reporters, John F. Kerry: The Complete Biography, which was a New York Times and Washington Post bestseller. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War. Scott Helman is the former political editor of the Boston Globe, where he has worked as a reporter and editor for ten years. Previously he was a national political reporter, serving as the paper's lead writer on the 2008 presidential campaign. He chronicled the meteoric rise of Mitt Romney and wrote extensively about Barack Obama. He has been a frequent guest analyst on CNN, MSNBC, and NPR.