Donald T. Critchlow, Katzin Family Professor at Arizona State University, is the author and editor of 23 books including most recently, In Defense of Populism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020); Republican Character: From Nixon to Reagan (University of Pennsylvania Press,2017), and Future Right: The Forging of a New Republican Majority (St. Martin's Press, 2016). Other books include American Political History: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2016); When Hollywood Was Right: How Movie Moguls, Film Stars, and Big Business Remade American Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2013); The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Made Political History (Harvard University Press 2007; and Kansas University Press, 2010); and Phyllis Schlafly and the Grassroots Conservatism (Princeton University Press, 2007); Intended Consequences: Family Planning, Abortion, and the Federal Government (Oxford University Press, 2003). Critchlow has lectured extensively in Europe as a distinguished State Department lecturer, and in China and Brazil. He is the co-editor of the first definitive history of the United States, published in Polish, Historia Stanow Zjeednockownych Ameryki (Warsaw,1995), five volumes. He has appeared on C-SPAN, NPR's Talk of the Nation, and BBC World News, and other news outlets.
