Zelizer, Julian E.

Julian E. Zelizer has been among the pioneers in the revival of American political history. He is the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University, a CNN political analyst, and a regular guest on NPR’s Here and Now. He is also the author and editor of 22 books, including The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society (2015), winner of the D.B. Hardeman Prize for the Best Book on Congress; Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 (Norton), co-authored with Kevin Kruse; Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, The Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party (Penguin Press), named a New York Times Editor’s Choice and one of the 100 Notable Books 2020; and his latest, Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical Amazement (Yale University Press). Soon-to-be-released titles are Defining the Age: Daniel Bell, His Time and Ours (Columbia University Press), co-edited with Paul Starr, and a new edited collection, The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: A First Historical Assessment (Princeton University Press). Zelizer, who has published more than 1,000 op-eds, has received fellowships from the Brookings Institution, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the New York Historical Society, and New America.