James Oliver Rigney, Jr., a.k.a. Robert Jordan (born in 1948) is best known as the author of the bestselling The Wheel of Timefantasy series. Jordan holds an undergraduate degree in physics from The Citadel, the military college of South Carolina. He is a history buff and served two tours in Vietnam with the U.S. Army.
... it did not always have inherently negative implications, it merely designated anyone who assumed power for any period of time without a legitimate basis of ...