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Tired of the frenetic pace of the blizzard of daily news stories about American politics, where separating the wheat from the chaff is almost impossible? Let’s take a breath, step back, and learn more about the big picture in presidential politics with The Long View. As a professor and presidential historian who has worked in the media for decades, I will put the twists and turns in a broad historical context with weekly newsletters and exclusive interviews. With this distinct perspective, I’ll help guide readers with a steady hand as we move deeper and deeper into one of the most turbulent periods of American history. Bringing together the classroom and political commentary, The Long View will allow you to digest and discuss the day’s events with thoughtful and engaging insight.
As a free subscriber, you’ll get a weekly post and many interviews. As a paid subscriber, you will gain access to the chat, a weekly history lesson, the full archive of interviews, and other special content. Please join me as I explore this new medium, which will offer an intimate, up-close opportunity to learn about where we are and where we might be going by understanding the past.
Who I am
New York Times best-selling author Julian E. Zelizer is the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University and a columnist for Foreign Policy. He is also a regular guest on NPR’s “Here and Now” and a popular analyst on television and radio networks. He is the award-winning author and editor of 27 books, including The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society, winner of the D.B. Hardeman Prize for the Best Book on Congress, Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974, and Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich and the Rise of the New Republican Party. The New York Times named the book as an Editor’s Choice and one of the 100 Notable Books in 2020. He is currently working on a new book about the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the 1964 Democratic Convention and an edited volume, The Presidency of Joseph Biden Jr: A First Historical Assessment. Zelizer has published over 1300 op-eds and received fellowships from the Brookings Institution, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the New York Historical Society, Penn Washington, and New America. His most recent book, published in January 2005, is In Defense of Partisanship.
Outside the classroom, the professor is an avid yet dispirited, lifelong New York Jets fan, an optimistic New York Knicks fan, and a passionate rock-and-roll enthusiast.
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