Receive a handwritten note from a five-time undefeated Jeopardy! champion and author of The Death of Expertise.

Tom Nichols is a professor at the Naval War College and at the Harvard Extension School, as well as a Senior Associate of the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs in New York City and a Fellow of the International History Institute at Boston University. He is also the author of several works on foreign policy and international security affairs, including The Death of Expertise, The Sacred Cause, No Use: Nuclear Weapons and U.S. National Security, Eve of Destruction: The Coming Age of Preventive War, and The Russian Presidency.

Tom is a five-time undefeated Jeopardy! champion, and is listed in the Jeopardy! Hall of Fame. In addition to various academic grants, Tom has also won awards for teaching at the Naval War College and at the Harvard Extension School, where he was the 2012 recipient of the Petra Shattuck Award for Excellence in Teaching.