Gary Gerstle is the Paul Mellon Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge. He is author of Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present and American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century. He is coeditor, with Steve Fraser, of The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980. Nelson Lichtenstein is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is editor of American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century; coeditor, with Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, of The Right and Labor in America: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination; and coeditor, with Richard Flacks, of The Port Huron Statement: Sources and Legacies of the New Left's Founding Manifesto; all of which are available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Alice O'Connor is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara and author of Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History and Social Science for What?: Philanthropy and the Social Question in a World Turned Rightside Up.

Gary Gerstle is the Paul Mellon Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge. He is author of Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present and American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century. He is coeditor, with Steve Fraser, of The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980. Nelson Lichtenstein is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is editor of American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century; coeditor, with Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, of The Right and Labor in America: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination; and coeditor, with Richard Flacks, of The Port Huron Statement: Sources and Legacies of the New Left's Founding Manifesto; all of which are available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Alice O'Connor is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara and author of Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History and Social Science for What?: Philanthropy and the Social Question in a World Turned Rightside Up.