Margaret MacMillan is the author of "Women of the Raj "and "Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World," which won the Duff Cooper Prize, the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History, a Silver Medal for the Arthur Ross Book Award of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Governor General's Literary Award for nonfiction. It was selected by the editors of "The New York Times" as one of the best books of 2002. Currently the provost of Trinity College and a professor of history at the University of Toronto, MacMillan takes up the position of warden of St. A
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The author behind the New York Times best-sellers Paris 1919 and Nixon Mao, Margaret MacMillan presents a remarkable treatise on history's importance. 'MacMillan is a superb writer who can bring history to life.'-Philadelphia Inquirer