Phillip Thomas Tucker, PhD, has authored or edited more than forty books on various aspects of the American experience. A native of St. Louis, Missouri, he has three degrees in Ame...view morePhillip Thomas Tucker, PhD, has authored or edited more than forty books on various aspects of the American experience. A native of St. Louis, Missouri, he has three degrees in American history. In 1993, his biography of Father John B. Bannon won the Douglas Southall Freeman Award for best book in Southern history. For more than two decades, he has been a military historian for the U.S. Air Force. He currently lives in the Washington, DC area.view less