The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History
Julian Zelizer
Meg Jacobs
Speakers: Julian Zelizer, Meg Jacobs
Date: November 5, 2004
Description:
Meg Jacobs, Associate Professor of History, MIT, and Julian Zelizer, Professor of History, Boston University
Meg Jacobs's areas of focus include politics, culture, and business history. Her book manuscript, Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth Century America (2005), explores the intersection of state development, consumer culture and American politics in the New Deal and World War II. She co-edited The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History (2003) with Julian Zelizer.
Julian E. Zelizer is author of On Capitol Hill: The Struggle To Reform Congress And its Consequences, 1948-2000 (2004), and Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State 1945-1975 (1998), which won the Organization of American Historians' 2000 Ellis Hawley Prize and the Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation's 1998 D.B. Hardeman Prize. He is also the editor of The American Congress (2004).
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