Julian Zelizer, 50, is an on-air CNN commentator and author of articles on the network’s website. In addition, he is a professor of political history at Princeton University. Two of his books — Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945–1975 and The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society — garnered the D. B. Hardeman Prize, presented annually by the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation.
Quote: “A good economy can create expectations for social movement politics. In the 1960s, the strong economy gave support to the civil rights movement, with demands that African Americans be included in the growing middle class. It produced more educated young people who were the heart of movement politics with the war. And it gave support to ideas like fighting poverty, since the country could afford to do so.”
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