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  • Contributors

Paula Baker teaches history at the University of Pittsburgh and is completing The American Political Industry, a study of the business of politics.

Robert Mutch is the author of Campaigns, Congress, and Courts: The Making of Federal Campaign Finance Law (New York, 1988).

Mark Wahlgren Summers teaches American History at the University of Kentucky and has written several books on nineteenth-century political history. Currently, he is completing Party Games: The Owners Manual of Gilded Age Politics.

Julian E. Zelizer is Associate Professor of History and Public Policy at the State University of New York at Albany. He is the author of Taxing America: Wilber D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945–1975, winner of the 1988 D. B. Hardeman Prize and the 2000 Ellis Hawley Prize. He is currently working on a history of congressional reform since World War II that will be published by Cambridge University Press.

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