Uri Kaufman is the author of the newly released Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East (St. Martin’s Press), the first history of the Yom Kippur War to be released in twenty years, which draws from never-before-seen declassified documents. He's been published in Foreign Affairs, Mosaic, and The Forward. After putting himself through CUNY’s Queens College at night, he attended New York University School of Law and graduated with honors in 1989. Mr. Kaufman subsequently became a real estate developer, specializing in adaptively restoring historic buildings, winning awards at the national and state level. His Harmony Mills project appears on the homepage of the New York State Historic Preservation Office’s website, hailed by officials as perhaps the finest example of restoring New York’s rich architectural heritage. He lives with his family in Lawrence, New York.