Matthew StevensonMatthew Stevenson is the author of many books, including Reading the Rails, Appalachia Spring, The Revolution as a Dinner Party (about China throughout its turbulent twentieth century), Biking with Bismarck (travelsin historical France), and Our Man in Iran. Out more recently is Donald Trump's Circus Maximus and Joe Biden's Excellent Adventure, about the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, and The View From Churchill: Travels in the Footsteps of Britain's Last Lion. He lives in Laconnex, Switzerland, which is outside Geneva.