About This Author
Julian E. Zelizer is the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University. His many books include The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and The Battle for the Great Society. A new edition of the Kerner Report introduced by Zelizer is out this month from Princeton University Press.
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