Lloyd C. Gardner is professor emeritus of history at Rutgers University. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including The Long Road to Baghdad, Three Kings, The Road to Tahrir Square, and Killing Machine, and a co-editor (with Marilyn B. Young) of The New American Empire and Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam, all published by The New Press. He lives in Newtown, Pennsylvania.

Praise for The War on Leakers:“[An] engaging and thoroughly researched investigation.”—Booklist“[The War on Leakers is] well-written and tightly-argued. . . A worthwhile contribution to our ongoing national debate about the balance between national security and privacy and about the line between sedition and dissent.”—Kirkus ReviewsPraise for Killing Machine:"Gardner’s treatment of this brave new mode of presidential war-making is admirably comprehensive."—Bookforum"Gardner delivers an engrossing blow-by-blow account of a decade of fierce debates and painful events that offer excruciating parallels with the Vietnam War."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)Praise for Three Kings:"Gardner’s meticulous review and perceptive analysis provides a rich background for understanding what is unfolding today, and is likely to persist."—Noam Chomsky