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Julian Zelizer
Julian Zelizer
Born	1969 (age 55–56)
Education	Brandeis University (BA); Johns Hopkins University (MA, PhD)
Spouses	; Nora Moran (m. 1996, divorced) ; Meg Jacobs (m. 2012)
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.

Education

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]

Life and career

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]

Personal life

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]

Books

Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945–1975 (1999) Cambridge University Press.
The American Congress: The Building of Democracy (2004), Mariner Books.
On Capitol Hill: The Struggle to Reform Congress and its Consequences, 1948–2000 (2004) Cambridge University Press
Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security – From World War II to the War on Terrorism (2009) Basic Books
Jimmy Carter: The American Presidents Series: The 39th President, 1977–1981 (2010) Times Books
Conservatives in Power: The Reagan Years, 1981–1989: A Brief History with Documents (2011), with Meg Jacobs Bedford/St. Martin's
Governing America: The Revival of Political History (2012) Princeton University Press
The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society (2015)
Media Nation: The Political History of News in Modern America (2017), editor, with Bruce J. Schulman
The Presidency of Barack Obama: A First Historical Assessment (2018), editor
Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 (2019), with Kevin M. Kruse
Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party (2020)
Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical Amazement (2021)
Defining the Age: Daniel Bell, His Time and Ours (2022), editor
The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: A First Historical Assessment (2022), editor
Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past (2023), editor
In Defence of Partisanship (2025) Columbia Global Reports

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]