About the Author

Jeffrey K. Tulis teaches American politics and political theory at the University of Texas at Austin and is the author of several books, including The Rhetorical Presidency. Nicole Mellow is professor of political science at Williams College and the author of The State of Disunion.

Reviews

"Legacies of Losing in American Politics is a significant scholarly work that will shape the intellectual debate for years to come."--Mark D. Brewer "Perspectives on Politics,"

"Jeffrey K. Tulis and Nicole Mellow's excellent book, Legacies of Losing in American Politics, is a fascinating and enlightening read. The authors challenge the way that both politicians and political scientists typically think about winners and losers in American politics by examining how "winning might not always be preferable to losing". . . .By challenging the standard narratives about "winning" and "losing" and "left" and "right," Tulis and Mellow have opened the door to more paradigm-shifting and provocative scholarship in the future. Legacies of Losing in American Politics is a well-written and thoughtful book. . ." -- "Presidential Studies Quarterly"

"History, we all know, is written by the winners. What we typically fail to recognize is the extent to which history has been revised by the losers. This is the central insight of Legacies of Losing in American Politics, the fascinating new contribution to American political thought, American political development, and constitutional theory by Jeffrey K. Tulis and Nicole Mellow."--Steven Bilakovics "LSE American Politics and Policy Blog"

"Mellow and Tulis have pressured the canonical blind spots [in the field] of American Political Development--their points of 'maximum blindness'--to show how they also yield 'areas of great lucidity, ' upending our political vocabularies of
winning and losing, success and failure."--Diane Rubenstein "Political Theory"