Nelson Lichtenstein is MacArthur Foundation Chair in History at the University of California, Santa Barbara and director there of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including Labor’s War at Home: The CIO n World War II (1983); Walter Reuther: the Most Dangerous Man in Detroit (1996); State of the Union: A Century of American Labor (2002); and The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business (2010). Most recently, he is the editor, with Elizabeth Shermer, of The Right and American Labor: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination. Lichtenstein, who earlier taught at the Catholic University of America and at the University of Virginia, has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations, the Fulbright Commission, and the University of California. His reviews and opinion pieces have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Dissent, New Labor Forum, American Prospect, and academic journals.