Adam Bellow is editorial director of Broadside Books/HarperCollins and president of Liberty Island Media, an independent publisher of conservative-themed fiction. Previously he was executive editor-at-large for Doubleday/Random House and editorial director of The Free Press/Simon & Schuster. A publishing professional for nearly 30 years specializing in books for the conservative/libertarian audience, he is the editor of numerous intellectual bestsellers including many that were highly controversial. He is also the author or editor of several books of his own, including New Threats to Freedom (Templeton 2010), The State of the American Mind (Templeton 2015), and IN PRAISE OF NEPOTISM: A History of Family Enterprise from King David to George W. Bush (Anchor 2003).