Julian E. Zelizer, Professor of History and Public Affairs

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Julian E. Zelizer has been one of the pioneers in the revival of American political history. He is the author of Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945-1975 (1998), On Capitol Hill: The Struggle to Reform Congress and its Consequences, 1948-2000 (2004), Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security—From World War II to the War on Terrorism (2010), Jimmy Carter (2010), and Conservatives in Power: The Reagan Years, 1981-1989 (2010), and Governing America: The Revival of Political History. His most recent book is The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society (2015). He has edited 10 books on American political history, with subjects ranging from the politics and the media to the presidency of George W. Bush. In addition to his scholarly articles and book chapters, Zelizer is a frequent commentator in the international and national media on political history and contemporary politics. He has published over seven hundred op-eds, including his weekly column on CNN.Com. He is a regular news commentator on radio, television and in print. He has received fellowships from the Brookings Institution, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and New America.

	Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 ( To be released January 8, 2019) by Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer

	The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society by Julian E. Zelizer
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Recent Interviews About The Fierce Urgency of Now
New Books in History (Podcast), July 6, 2015 WNYC, April 17, 2015 YouTube: The Great Society Half a Centruy Later, April 12, 2015 HEC-TV, April 9, 2015 Fighting Poverty: From LNJ to Obama-John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum, March 3, 2015 America's Democrats, February 22, 2015 John Batchelor Show, February 20, 2015 Wall Street Journal, February 20, 2015 National Review, February 20, 2015 The Daily Beast, February 20, 2015 The Washington Post, February 6, 2015 WOSU (NPR-Columbus), February 5, 2015 Aspen Institute, February 3, 2015 Al Jazeera, January 30, 2015 WNYC, January 28, 2015 ABC/Yahoo News, January 27, 2015 Youtube, January 26, 2015 CSPAN, Janaury 26, 2015 WJBC, January 25, 2015 Boston Herald Radio, January 23, 2015 WMNF-FM, January 22, 2015 LBJ's Legacy and the Limits or Presidential Power, January 22, 2015 The Political Junkie (Podcast), January 22, 2015 Post-Gazette, January 18, 2015 Washington Post, January 18, 2015 MSNBC, January 18, 2015 Vox-January 17, 2015 WTOP-January 12, 2015 NY Times, January 12, 2015 Bill's Books (NBC-New York), January 11, 2015 MSNBC-"Selma" portrays MLK as an imperfect man, January 11, 2015 MSNBC-Ava DuVernay:LBJ controversy a distraction, January 11, 2015 MSNBC-Why the Selma campaign was a success, January 11, 2015 MSNBC-How "Selma" portrays brutality of violence, January 11, 2105 MSNBC- Selma's youngest marcher recounts movement, January 11, 2105 MSNBC-"Selma" bolsters role of women in movement, January 11, 2015 The Gist (Slate), January 9, 2015 SoundCloud, January 9, 2015 WHYY, January 9, 2015 Washingto Post, January 9, 2015 KPFK (LA Radio) Ian Masters, January 9, 2015 Majority Report, January 8, 2015 The Leslie Marshall Show, January 8, 2015 The Majority Report, January 8, 2015 Biographile, January 8, 2015 New York Times, January 6, 2015 WBUR, January 7, 2015 New York Times, January 6, 2015

Julian E. Zelizer

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs, Princeton University

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Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941
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