Personal Statement:
My primary interest is U.S. political history for the period since 1928, with particular focus on the Roosevelt, Truman, and Kennedy administrations. I am interested, too, in the historical and analytical literature of American electoral and legislative behavior, including the development and cyclical realignment of the American party systems extending back into the nineteenth century. I find biography and collective biography to be useful vehicles for understanding the workings and distribution of power over the course of American political history.

Representative Publications:
"2004: An Election for the Ages?" USA Today Magazine, (March 2004)

"William Jefferson Clinton," Encyclopedia of American Studies, (July 2004, Grolier.com)

"All [Presidential] Apologies," The Philadelphia Inquirer, (August 17, 2003)

"The Presidency of John F. Kennedy," in Presidential Administration Profiles (1999).

Robert Kennedy: Brother Protector (1997).

"John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy," in Leaders of the World, Ann Commire, ed. (1993).

Co-author, "Prologue: The Senate Voting Record of Harry S Truman," Journal of Interdisciplinary History (1973); reprinted in Joel Silbey, ed., The Congress of the United States, 1789-1989 (1991).

"Harry S. Truman and the New Deal," The Truman Encyclopedia, ed. Richard S. Kirkendall (1989).

"Senatorial Papers and the 'New' Political History," Senators' Papers, ed. Richard A. Baker (1979).

"John F. Kennedy: An Idealist without Illusions," Forum Series in History (1976).

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