Robert Vincent Remini is a historian and a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of numerous works about President Andrew Jackson and the Jacksonian Era. For the third volume of Andrew Jackson, subtitled The Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845, he won the 1984 U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction. He has also written biographies of Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, Martin van Buren, Joseph Smith and Daniel Webster. Remini received his B.S. from Fordham University in 1943 and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University . He is professor of history... emeritus and research professor of humanities emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago. On April 28, 2005, Remini was appointed the Historian of the United States House of Representatives. His most recent work is At the Edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise that Saved the Union .
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