Author Archive

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 fellow at the New America Foundation. He is the author of The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society.
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How the Tet Offensive Undermined American Faith in Government

Fifty years ago, the January 1968 battle laid bare the way U.S. leaders had misled the public about the war in Vietnam.

  • Julian E. Zelizer, The Atlantic
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Reagan's '76 Playbook Is the Ticket for Cruz and Trump

The rise of conservative outsiders like Ted Cruz and Donald Trump is not unprecedented.

  • Julian E. Zelizer, The Atlantic