Phillip Thomas Tucker, PhD, is the award-winning author of nearly eighty books of history. He received his PhD from St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, in 1990. Tucker has long specialized in producing groundbreaking history in many fields of study, including women's history and African American history. He has been recently recognized as "the Stephen King of History" after more than three decades of authoring important books of unique distinction. His previous books include Pickett's Charge, How the Irish Won the American Revolution, George Washington's Surprise Attack, Exodus from the Alamo, and Father of the Tuskegee Airmen, John C. Robinson. He lives in Central Florida.