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Dr. Oshinsky is the George Littlefield Professor of History at the University of Texas. He is the author of A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy and Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice, both of which won major prizes and were New York Times “notable books.” He is also the co-author of The Oxford Companion to United States History and American Passages: A History of the United States. His articles and reviews appear regularly in The New York Times.Professor Oshinsky’s latest book, Poli An American Story, was published in 2005 by Oxford University Press and was recently awarded the Pulitzer Prize. It has been widely praised in reviews in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, Dallas Morning News, Science, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the Journal of the American Medical Association. Professor Oshinsky has appeared this year on NPR, C-Span, and the Jim Lehrer New Hour.
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