In Defense of Partisanship with Julian Zelizer

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Event Details

Date:
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM 
Location:
SUNY Global Center
116 E 55th Street
between Park Avenue and Lexington Avenue
New York , NY
Event type
Lecture / Panel  
Email: 
[email protected] 
Telephone: 
212-481-8100 EXT. 250  
Admission Types
Single Ticket: 35.00
FPA Member Admission: Free
 

Event Description

Please join the Foreign Policy Association for our first event in 2025! We will be joined by Dr. Julian E. Zelizer, Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton School of Public and International Affairs to speak about his new book In Defense of Partisanship. Copies of the book will be available after the lecture. 

This lecture will be hosted at the SUNY Global Center located at 116 East 55th Street between Lexington and Park Avenue. The lecture will begin at 6:00pm and will be followed by a reception. 

To register, plaese use Eventbrite(link) for tickets for in-person or virtual attendance, or contact [email protected]. 

 

Event Speakers

    • Julian E. Zelizer - Speaker
      Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs, Princeton University

      New York Times best-selling author Julian E. Zelizer has been among the pioneers in the revival of American political history. He is the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University and a CNN Political Analyst, a regular guest on NPR’s "Here and Now," a guest host on POTUS Sirius XM, and a columnist for Foreign Policy. He is the award-winning author and editor of 26 books including, The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society, the winner of the D.B. Hardeman Prize for the Best Book on Congress and Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974, co-authored and Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, The Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party. The New York Times named the book as an Editor's Choice and one of the 100 Notable Books in 2020. His most recent books are Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical Amazement and The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: A First Historical Assessment (Editor), Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Lies and Legends About Our Past (co-edited with Kevin Kruse), and Our Nation At Risk: Election Security as a National Security Issue (co-edited with Karen Greenberg). He is currently working on a new book about the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the 1964 Democratic Convention entitled ‘Is this America?’: Reckoning With Racism at the 1964 Atlantic City Democratic Convention. In January 2025, Columbia Global Reports will publish his book, In Defense of Partisanship.  Zelizer, who has published over 1200 op-eds, has received fellowships from the Brookings Institution, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the New York Historical Society, and New America.

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