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Julian E. Zelizer

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs
Office:
226 Dickinson Hall
Phone:
609-258-8846
Fax:
609-258-5326
E-mail:
jzelizer@princeton.edu

Biography

New York Times best-selling author Julian E. Zelizer is the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University, a columnist for Foreign Policy, and publishes a Substack newsletter called The Long View. He is also a regular guest on NPR’s "Here and Now" and a popular analyst on multiple television and radio networks. He is the award-winning author and editor of 27 books, including The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society, the winner of the D.B. Hardeman Prize for the Best Book on Congress and Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974, co-authored with Kevin Kruse and Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, The Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party. The New York Times named the book as an Editor's Choice and one of the 100 Notable Books in 2020. His most recent books are Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical Amazement and The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: A First Historical Assessment (Editor), Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Lies and Legends About Our Past (co-edited with Kevin Kruse), and Our Nation at Risk: Election Security as a National Security Issue (co-edited with Karen Greenberg). He is currently working on a new book about the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the 1964 Democratic Convention entitled ‘Is this America?’: Reckoning with Racism at the 1964 Atlantic City Democratic Convention and an edited volume, The Presidency of Joseph Biden Jr: A First Historical Assessment. Zelizer has published over 1400 op-eds and received fellowships from the Brookings Institution, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the New York Historical Society, Penn Washington, and New America. His most recent book, published in January 2005, is In Defense of Partisanship (Columbia Global Reports).