Donald E. Davis received his PhD in Russian history at Indiana University and continued his teaching career at Illinois State University until 2004. He has published a number of articles and books and, while at Illinois State University, initiated student-faculty exchange programs with a number of Russian institutions. Davis is the editor of No East or West: The Memoirs of Paul B. Anderson. Since meeting in graduate school, Trani and Davis have had a working collaboration for almost thirty years.  They have co-authored: The First Cold War; Distorted Mirrors; The Reporter Who Knew Too Much.