Richard Pells is professor of history emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of four books, all of them on modern American culture and social thought: Modernist America: Art Music, Movies, and the Globalization of American Culture (2011), Not Like Us: How Europeans Have Loved, Hated, and Transformed American Culture Since World War II (1997), The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age: American Intellectuals in the 1940s and 1950s (1985), and Radical Visions and American Dreams: American Culture and Social Thought in the Depression Years (1973). He is currently working on a new book, War Babies: The Generation That Changed America. He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, as well as six Fulbright chairs and senior lectureships. He has lived and lectured throughout Europe, in addition to Turkey, Latin America, Asia, and Australia. He as also contributed frequently to the International Herald Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chronicle of Higher Education.