Benjamin Franklin Martin is the Katheryn J., Lewis C., and Benjamin Price Professor of History at Louisiana State University. He is the author of six previous books, among them, The Hypocrisy of Justice in the Belle Epoque and Years of Plenty, Years of Want: France and the Legacy of the Great War (NIU Press, 2013). He has been a consulting scholar to the Jewish Museum in New York for the celebrated exhibition "The Dreyfus Affair: Art, Truth and Justice," and a featured contributor to documentaries by The History Channel.