Julian Zelizer | |
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Born | 1969 (age 55–56) |
Education | Brandeis University (BA) Johns Hopkins University (MA, PhD) |
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Relatives | Viviana Zelizer (mother) |
Julian Emanuel Zelizer (born 1969) is an American professor of political history and author at Princeton University. [1] Zelizer focuses on the second half of the 20th century and the 21st century, and has authored or co-authored several books about American political history.
Raised in Metuchen, New Jersey, Zelizer was educated at Metuchen High School, a comprehensive public high school, [2] followed by Brandeis University. He obtained a PhD in History from Johns Hopkins University. [3]
Zelizer has contributed to CNN.com and The Atlantic. [4] [5] He is a regular commentator on news programs and has appeared in several documentary films. [6] He penned the introduction to a 2016 edition of the Kerner report. [7] He is the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Professor of History and Public Policy. [8]
He has twice won the D. B. Hardeman Prize, for Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945–1975 and The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society. [9] [10]
Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974, co-authored with Kevin M. Kruse, received wide critical acclaim. [11] [12] [13]
Zelizer's book, Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party, was called "insightful" by The New York Times , which also recognized it as one of the "100 Notable Books of 2020". The Washington Post wrote that it was "engaging" and "timely". [14] [15] [16]
Zelizer is the son of the Princeton sociologist Viviana Zelizer and rabbi Gerald L. Zelizer. [17] [18]
Zelizer is son of a notable Metuchen rabbi. [19] In 1996, he married Nora Kay Moran at Congregation Adas Israel in Washington, D.C., presided over by his father. [18] In 2012, he married fellow historian Meg Jacobs at the Synagogue for the Arts in New York City, again presided over by his father. [17]
In addition to authoring the books listed above, Zelizer has edited or co-edited a number of books including, most recently, Our Nation at Risk: Election Integrity as a National Security Issue. [20]