Uploaded October 2019 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
Respected historian Julian E. Zelizer comes to W&L as a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar to deliver the lecture: "Political Polarization and the Road to the Trump Presidency." Co-sponsored by the W&L History Department and W&L’s Phi Beta Kappa chapter. Funding was received from the University Lectures Fund.
About Julian E. Zelizer: Julian E. Zelizer is the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University and a CNN Political Analyst. He is the author and editor of over 18 books including "The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society." Co-authored with Kevin Kruse, his book "Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974" was published this year, with his next book coming out later this year, "Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, The Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party." He is currently writing a biography of Abraham Joshua Heschel for the Jewish Lives Series at Yale University Press. Zelizer also writes a popular weekly column for CNN and is a regular guest on the network news shows.
Respected historian Julian E. Zelizer comes to W&L as a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar to deliver the lecture: "Political Polarization and the Road to the Trump Presidency." Co-sponsored by the W&L History Department and W&L’s Phi Beta Kappa chapter. Funding was received from the University Lectures Fund.
About Julian E. Zelizer: Julian E. Zelizer is the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University and a CNN Political Analyst. He is the author and editor of over 18 books including "The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society." Co-authored with Kevin Kruse, his book "Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974" was published this year, with his next book coming out later this year, "Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, The Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party." He is currently writing a biography of Abraham Joshua Heschel for the Jewish Lives Series at Yale University Press. Zelizer also writes a popular weekly column for CNN and is a regular guest on the network news shows.
