God and Mammon

Lance Morrow is an American essayist whose op ed articles appear regularly in the Wall Street Journal. He is the Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington. His essays and book reviews also appear in City Journal, the New York Times, and other publications. For many years he was an essayist for Time magazine. He is a winner of the National Magazine Award and the author of eight books, including Evil: An Investigation, The Best Year of Their Lives: Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and John Kennedy in 1948, and two memoirs, The Chief and Heart. His essays have been collected in Fishing in the Tiber and Second Drafts of History. Born in Philadelphia, the son of two journalists, Morrow grew up in Washington DC, and graduated from Harvard, magna cum laude in English literature. After a year as a reporter for the Washington Evening Star, he joined the staff of Time in New York. Morrow lives in upstate New York with his wife, the author Susan Brind Morrow. He has two sons, James and Justin.

Since recording his first book for the Kansas Audio Reader Network in 1985, Tom Parks has enjoyed giving voice to stories. He has been nominated for Audie Awards and has received several AudioFile Earphones Awards, and reviewers have described his performances as "conversational," "energetic," "earnest," "sincere," and as having a certain "gravity." Tom is also an active workshop leader and in-demand speaker for corporations and is a featured lecturer for Carnival Cruise Lines. On the side, Tom gigs as a drummer who performs regularly on the Midwest musical theater circuit.