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I\u2019m joined today by Julian Zelizer, historian at Princeton University and CNN Political Analyst. He has been among the pioneers in the revival of American political history. He has written over 900 op-eds, including his popular weekly column for CNN.com. He is also a regular contributor to The Atlantic. This year, he is the Distinguished Senior Fellow at the New York Historical Society where he is writing a book about Abraham Joshua Heschel.\n\nHe\u2019s the coauthor with Kevin Kruse of Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974, which was published in January 2019. Kevin appeared on an earlier Half Hour of Heterodoxy episode. This book is based on the class that Julian teaches at Princeton (syllabus here).\n\nHe is also the author and editor of 17 other books including The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society (2015), the winner of the D.B. Hardeman Prize for the Best Book on Congress.\xa0In March 2020, Norton will publish his history of the downfall of Speaker of the House Jim Wright and the rise of New Gingrich. He has received fellowships from the Brookings Institution, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and New America. He also co-hosts a popular podcast called Politics & Polls.\n\nLinks\n\nJulian Zelizer & Kevin M. Kruse,\xa0Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974\n\nSyllabus\xa0for the Princeton course on U.S. history since 1974\n\nBooks on Russia by Stephen Kotkin\n\nAleksandr Fursenko & Timothy Naftali, Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary\xa0\n\nJeffrey Engel, When the World Seemed New: George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War\n\nSteven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, How Democracies Die\xa0\n\nTranscript\n\nHere is a transcript of this episode.\n\nRating the Show\n\nIf you enjoyed this show, please rate it on iTunes:\n\n \t* Go to the show's iTunes page\xa0and click \u201cView in iTunes\u201d\n \t* Click \u201cRatings and Reviews\u201d which is to the right of "Details"\n \t* Next to "Click to Rate" select the stars.\n\nSee the full list of episodes of Half Hour of Heterodoxy >>