Andrew O’Shaughnessy

Andrew O’Shaughnessy is the Vice President of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Saunders Director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello and Professor of History at the University of Virginia.  He was born in Britain where he earned his undergraduate degree and doctorate at Oxford University. His most recent book The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution and the Fate of the Empire (Yale University Press, 2013) has been the recipient of five national awards including the New York Historical Society American History Book Prize and the George Washington Book Prize.