Charles B. Strozier is Professor of History at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, and Director of the Center on Terrorism at John Jay. He is the author of Apocalypse: On the Psychology of Fundamentalism in America (1994, new edition 2002) and has edited, with Michael Flynn, Trauma and Self (1996), Genocide, War, and Human Survival (1996), and The Year 2000 (1997). He also wrote a prize-winning psychological study of Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln’s Quest for Union: A Psychological Portrait, 1982, revised edition in paper 2001). He was the founding editor for 14 years of The Psychohistory Review and has written scores of essays and other pieces on aspects of history, religion, terrorism, and psychoanalysis. His most recent book, Heinz Kohut: The Making of a Psychoanalyst (2001), was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2001. Strozier is currently writing a book about the World Trade Center disaster and its repercussions in American life. Strozier has his BA from Harvard University and his MA and PhD from the University of Chicago, all in history.