David Contosta

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.‎