Andrew J. Polsky

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  Andrew J. Polsky is professor of Political Science at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of two books, Elusive Victories: The American Presidency at War (Oxford University Press, 2012) and The Rise of the Therapeutic State (Princeton University Press, 1991). Elusive Victories has been chosen as a main selection of the History Book Club and the Military Book Club for July 2012. In addition, he has written numerous scholarly articles and chapters on the American presidency, wartime presidential leadership, political parties, business in American politics, 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