Andrew J. Polsky (Ph.D., Princeton), an award-winning scholar, recently retired as professor of political science at Hunter College, City University of New York. He is the author of The Rise of the Therapeutic State (Princeton University Press, 1991) and Elusive Victories: The American Presidency at War (Oxford University Press, 2012), which was a main selection of the History Book Club and the Military Book Club and was featured on Morning Joe. He edited The Eisenhower Presidency: Lessons for the Twenty-First Century (Lexington Books, 2015). Professor Polsky has also written numerous scholarly articles and chapters on the American presidency, wartime presidential leadership, political parties, and American political development. From 2005 to 2010, he served as the editor of Polity, ranked among the ten best-known political science scholarly journals. His article on partisan regimes received the 2013 Polity Prize for the best article published in the journal the previous year. From 2013 to 2024, he served as the Ruth and Harold Newman Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences at Hunter College. Professor Polsky often comments on presidential politics for both domestic and international media and has appeared as an in-studio commentator both for television and online.