Princeton University

Julian E. Zelizer is the author of Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945-1975 (1998) and On Capitol Hill: The Struggle to Reform Congress and its Consequences, 1948-2000 (2004). He is the editor of New Directions in American Political History (2005), The American Congress: The Building of Democracy (2004) and the co-editor of Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s (2008), The Constitution and Public Policy in America (2008), and The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History (2003). Zelizer was a Guggenheim Fellow and a Brookings Institution Research Fellow. His first book, Taxing America, was awarded the 2000 Ellis Hawley Prize and the 1998 D.B. Hardeman Prize. 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 is a co-editor for the Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America series of Princeton University Press, and he serves on the Board of Directors of the Dirksen Congressional Center. Zelizer is currently writing a book about the history of national security politics since the 1940s that will be published by Basic Books in the Fall of 2009 as well as a history of President Jimmy Carter that will be published by Times Books. He is also editing a book about the presidency of George W. Bush (Princeton University Press) and co-writing a book with Professor Meg Jacobs, entitled The Reagan Revolution (Bedford Books). The History News Network named Professor Zelizer as one of the top young historians in the country. Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University.