James B. Conroy - Jeffersons White House: Monticello on the Potomac

James B. Conroy, a trial lawyer in Boston for more than thirty-five years, is the author of Our One Common Country: Abraham Lincoln and the Hampton Roads Peace Conference of 1865 (Lyons Press, 2014), a finalist for the prestigious Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, and Lincolns White House: The Peoples House in Wartime (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017), which won the Lincoln Prize and the Abraham Lincoln Institutes Annual Book Award. A former Naval reservist, Conroy served on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., as a House and Senate aide in the 1970s and early 1980s, and earned his JD degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1982. He and his wife, Lynn, are the parents of two accomplished grown children, the parents-in-law of an NBC News journalist, and the grandparents of two young boys and a girl.

Conroy is an elected fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society and a member of the Boston Bar Association. He lives in Hingham, Massachusetts, on Bostons South Shore, where he serves as a member of the Hingham Historical Commission, has coached youth baseball and basketball teams, and has chaired the Towns Advisory Committee, which advises the Hingham Town Meeting, an exercise in direct democracy through which the Town has governed itself since 1635.

Learn more about the author at his website, www.jamesbconroy.com.

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