John Steele Gordon is one of America's leading historians, especially in the realm of business and financial history. He is the author of The Scarlet Woman of Wall Street, Hamilton's Blessing, A Thread Across the Ocean, An Empire of Wealth, and The Great Game. He has written for Forbes, Worth, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, and his columns appear regularly in the Wall Street Journal. John Steele Gordon lives in North Salem, New York.