American Political History

Donald T. Critchlow is Professor of History at Arizona State University. He is the author of When Hollywood Was Right: How Movie Moguls, Film Stars, and Big Business Remade American Politics to be published by Cambridge University Press. In addition, he has authored and edited many other books including The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Made Political History (Harvard, 2007; revised 2011, Kansas); Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism (Princeton, 2005; paper 2007); and Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal Government (Oxford, 1999, pap. 2001). He is currently working on a book American Democracy Now and Its Future, a data-driven book. He is editor of the Journal of Policy History, an interdisciplinary quarterly published by Cambridge University Press.