Jonathan Law was born in Westonzoyland, Somerset, in 1961 and obtained his degree in English from Oxford University. Since 1989 he has worked as an editor at Market House Books, where he has contributed to numerous dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works. He is the editor or co-editor of European Culture- A Contemporary Companion (1993), The Cassell Companion to Cinema (1995), Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1999), The Macmillan Dictionary of Contemporary Phrase and Fable (2002), Oxford's A Concise Encyclopedia (2004) and A Dictionary of Business and Management (2006). He lives in Buckinghamshire with his wife and three children.
?The Fourth Chapter, Defending the Free World is one of the most densely argued, critically insightful pieces ever written about Ike. Medhurst is a very gifted critic. Almost every sentence is a zinger. The section on the use of surrogates is so brilliant that I read it to my political science classes, and when I had finished they longed to hear more. They asked me why persons in our field did not write as lucidly and as powerfully as Medhurst.?-Source unknown