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Bill Bradley is a two-time NBA champion, former U.S. Senator, and lifelong storyteller. Raised in a small town on the banks of the Mississippi River, he was an Olympic gold medalist and national College Player of the Year, and spent 10 years as a Hall-of-Fame forward for the New York Knicks, winning two NBA titles. He later served for 18 years in the United States Senate, representing the state of New Jersey; and in 2000 was a Democratic candidate for President of the United States. A graduate of Princeton and Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, he has written seven books on basketball, politics, culture, and economics, including Life on the Run, Time Present, Time Past, The New American Story, and Values of the Game – all New York Times bestsellers. He currently hosts American Voices, a weekly show on SiriusXM radio that celebrates the goodness of the American people.

John C. Danforth served three terms representing the state of Missouri in the U.S. Senate after eight years of service as Missouri’s attorney general. Following his elected service, Danforth held appointments in both Republican and Democratic administrations. He was Special Envoy to Sudan, where his focus was negotiating an end to the civil war in the South, and later U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. He was also special counsel in the investigation of the federal raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. He is currently a partner at Dowd Bennett LLC in St. Louis, Missouri. An ordained Episcopal priest, Danforth is the author of Resurrection, Faith and Politics: How the “Moral Values” Debate Divides America and How to Move Forward Together, and The Relevance of Religion.