David Contosta has for many years been a professor of history at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia. He is the author of some two dozen books, including Rebel Giants: The Revolutionary Lives of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, America's Needless Wars, The Private Life of James Bond, and a personal memoir with his cousin Philip Hazelton entitled An American Childhood. He has also co-produced, written, and appeared in several documentary films. Contosta lives at the edge of a former crossroads village outside Philadelphia and is the father of three daughters and two sons.
With the world inhibited by progressive thinkers dabbling in revolutionary ideas, amidst political upheavals at one hand and technological advancements on the other, it is mindsets that prove to be the stumbling blocks at every step, all the way.
