Julian E. Zelizer

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. Zelizer.

Zelizer married twice. In 1996, he married Nora Kay Moran at Congregation Adas Israel in Washington, D.C. presided over by his father. In 2012, he married fellow historian Meg Jacobs at the Synagogue for the Arts in New York City again presided over by his father.

• Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945–1975 (1999)
• On Capitol Hill: The Struggle to Reform Congress and its Consequences, 1948-2000 (2004)
• Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security - From World War II to the War on Terrorism (2009)
• Jimmy Carter: The American Presidents Series: The 39th President, 1977–1981 (2010)
• Conservatives in Power: The Reagan Years, 1981–1989: A Brief History with Documents (2011), with Meg Jacobs
• Governing America: The Revival of Political History (2012)
• 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