Julian E. Zelizer is a New York Times best-selling author and the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He is a columnist for Foreign Policy and publishes a popular Substack called The Long View. A regular guest on NPR’s Here and Now, Zelizer is also a prominent analyst on numerous television and radio networks. He is the award-winning author and editor of 28 books, including The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society, which won the D.B. Hardeman Prize for the Best Book on Congress, and Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974. His book Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party was named an Editor’s Choice and one of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2020. Recent books include The Presidency of Joseph R. Biden Jr.,: A First Historical Assessment; In Defense of Partisanship, Our Nation at Risk: Election Security as a National Security Issue (co-edited with Karen Greenberg), Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Lies and Legends About Our Past (co-edited with Kevin Kruse), The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: A First Historical Assessment (editor), and Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical Amazement. Zelizer has published over 1,500 op-eds and received fellowships from the Brookings Institution, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the New-York Historical Society, Penn Washington, New America, and the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU.

He is completing a new book: Rumble on the Promenade: The Clash of Justice and Power at the 1964 Democratic Convention that will be published by Norton in 2027.