Julian Emanuel Zelizer (born 1969) is a professor of political history and an author in the United States at Princeton University.
Zelizer has authored or co-authored several books about American political history; his focuses of study are the second half of the 20th century and the 21st century.
Zelizer has contributed to CNN.com and The Atlantic He penned the introduction to a 2016 edition of the Kerner report.
He is the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Professor of History and Public Policy.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.Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974, coauthored with Kevin M.
Kruse, received wide critical acclaim.Zelizer is the son of the Princeton sociologist Viviana Zelizer and rabbi Gerald L.