Ben Judge is the creator and executive producer of the documentary Right Makes Might: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates. He is also the author of Mr. California: The Political Life of Pete Wilson, as well as the editor of United and Independent: John Quincy Adams on American Foreign Policy and Samuel Flagg Bemis's Diplomacy of the American Revolution. Judge holds a PhD from Claremont Graduate University, a BA from Claremont McKenna College, and served in the United States Navy Reserve.