Rick Rinehart is a publisher and author of three books. A former Colorado Humanities Scholar, he is also chair of the Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation's awards program for talented, emerging authors. He is member of The Leander Club, Henley-on-Thames, England--the oldest, largest, and most successful rowing club in the world, having won more Olympic and World championship gold medals than any other club—and is a contributor to the websites American Thinker, Icecap, and Denver Examiner. He is currently Executive Editor at Globe Pequot, the trade division of Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. He lives in Essex, Connecticut.