Brian VanDeMark matriculated at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Majoring in history, Brian VanDeMark studied at UCLA from 1983 until 1988, at which time he graduated with a PhD. After working as a Research Assistant on Clark Clifford’s memoirs, Brian VanDeMark was hired by the History Department at the United States Naval Academy in 1990. Serving as a tenured Associate Professor of History in Annapolis, Maryland, Brian VanDeMark educates students on the many defining names and moments that comprise the history of the United States. Over the course of his career as an educator, Brian VanDeMark has written and contributed to almost a dozen nonfiction books covering American history. In 1991, Brian VanDeMark’s Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War was published by Oxford University Press. Brian VanDeMark sets the stage for this book by recounting Lyndon B. Johnson’s victory over Barry Goldwater while South Vietnam’s government was in ruin. As Brian VanDeMark goes deeper into the events that paved the way for America’s involvement in Vietnam, readers learn facts both startling and insightful. Brian VanDeMark released Pandora’s Keepers: Nine Men and the Atomic Bomb in 2003. In Pandora’s Keepers, Brian VanDeMark invites readers to learn hitherto-unknown facts concerning the nine physicists who were pulled from their research and instructed to create the A-bomb, a literal weapon of mass destruction. By visiting Amazon.com, readers can learn even more about Brian VanDeMark’s many works.