Barbara A. Perry is a renowned Kennedy scholar, presidency and U.S. Supreme Court expert. She serves on the White House Historical Association’s Board of Directors, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library’s Advisory Board, and the John F. Kennedy National Historical Site’s Friends Board. Previously in the Department of Government at Sweet Briar College, she is currently the J. Wilson Newman Professor in Presidential Studies at the University of Virginia's Miller Center and co-chair of Presidential Oral History Program. She is the author of numerous titles including Reconcilable Differences: The Unlikely Political Alliance of John F. Kennedy and Eleanor Roosevelt; Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch; Jacqueline Kennedy: First Lady of the New Frontier; and Edward Kennedy: An Oral History.