This past month, Little Brown and Company published Savage's first book, "Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy." Earlier this year he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a series of articles on President George W. Bush's use of signing statements. Before joining The Boston Globe in 2003, Mr. Savage was a journalist for the Miami Herald, where he covered the local and state government beats. Mr. Savage received his undergraduate degree in English and American Literature from Harvard College and a master's degree in legal studies from Yale Law School, where he was a Knight Foundation Journalism Fellow.