David O. Stewart
American Emperor
Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America
Simon & Schuster, October 2011
Impeached
The Trial of President Andrew Jackson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy
Simon and Schuster, May 2009
The Summer of 1787
The Men Who Invented the Constitution
Simon and Schuster, May 2008
After practicing law for more than 25 years, David O. Stewart turned to writing history (though he still practices law). His first book, The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution, was a Washington Post bestseller and won the Washington Writing Award as Best Book of 2007. Two years later, Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln’s Legacy, was a Davis-Kidd Bestseller and was called “by all means the best account of this troubled episode” by Professor David Donald of Harvard. David’s latest work is American Emperor, Aaron Burr’s Challenge to Jefferson’s America, an examination of Burr’s remarkable Western expedition, an undertaking that shook the nation’s foundations at a time when those foundations were none too solid. His first novel, The Lincoln Deception, will be released in September 2013 from Kensington Publishing. David also is president of the Washington Independent Review of Books, an online book review.
