Julian E. Zelizer is Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He is writing a history of the politics of national security which will be published by Yale University Press. Next year Harvard University Press will publish a book that he co-edited, Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s. He is also the author of On Capitol Hill and the editor of The American Congress.

Bruce J. Schulman is Professor of History at Boston University and the author of The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Politics, and Society (DaCapo)