My Times & Life A Historian's Progress Through a Contentious Age

Morton Keller recounts his "not extraordinary life played out in quite extraordinary times"-from the Great Depression through World War Two, the cold war, the sixties, and 9/11. A classic American saga of respectable achievement from relatively humble origins, his life through eight-plus decades as a dues-paying member of the middle class resonates beyond the individual to echo the experiences, the beliefs, and the values of his generation.

Morton Keller is the Spector Professor of History Emeritus at Brandeis University. A scholar of legal and political history, he is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the British Academy. He has been a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution since 2005. His most recent books are America's Three Regimes: A New Political History and The Unbearable Heaviness of Governing: The Obama Administration in Historical Perspective (2010); many of his articles have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Daedalus, the New Republic, the American Interest, the Wilson Quarterly, and numerous scholarly journals.