Pulitzer Prize — nominated author of Churchilclass="underline" Speaker of the Century, James C. Humes is a former presidential speechwriter who worked for Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Gerald Ford, and Dwight Eisenhower. Before his speechwriting career, he represented the U.S. State Department in lectures on American government all over the world. He has served as a communications advisor to major U.S. corporations, including IBM and DuPont. He is the author of more than 30 books, and one of the few Americans alive today to have met Churchill, who told him at age 18, “Young man, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.” A widely-sought speaker across the country, Humes lives in Pueblo, Colorado, and is Visiting Historian at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.