Julian Zelizer is a professor of political history at Princeton University. He is a regular commentator on news programs and has written numerous books including Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress and the State, 1945-1975 (1999); The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress and the Battle for the Great Society (2015); and, with Kevin M. Kruse, Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 (2019).
Some American patriotic myths are harmless; George Washington may have chopped down a cherry tree at some point in his life, but the popular story told to children where young George fesses...
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