Michael Kazin

Michael Kazin is a professor of history at Georgetown University and serves as co-editor of Dissent magazine. He is the son of literary critic Alfred Kazin. As a Harvard student he was a leader in SDS and briefly a member of the Weather Underground.

Bibliography:

American Dreamers: The Left in U.S. History , Alfred A. Knopf, forthcoming 2011.

The Princeton Encyclopedia of United States Political History, editor-in-chief, 2010

A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan Alfred A. Knopf, 2006, Anchor paperback, 2007. Main Selection, History Book Club. Named one of the Best Books of 2006 by The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Fresh Air (NPR), and several other media outlets. Awarded Order of Merit by Christianity Today.

Americanism: New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal, edited with Joseph McCartin, University of North Carolina Press, 2006, paperback, 2008.

America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s (co-author, Maurice Isserman), Oxford University Press, 1999. Second edition, 2003. Third edition, 2007. Fourth edition, 2011. Named one of best books of 2000 by Washington Post.

The Populist Persuasion: An American History, Basic Books, 1995 (paperback, 1996). Revised paperback edition, Cornell University Press, 1998.

Barons of Labor: The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era, University of Illinois Press, 1987 (paperback, 1989). Chapters anthologized in Major Problems in American Labor History, ed. Eileen Boris and Nelson Lichtenstein and in Working People of California, ed. Daniel Cornford.