Gary Gerstle is Paul Mellon Professor of American History Emeritus and Director of Research at the University of Cambridge. A historian of modern America, he has written extensively on the intersection of economics and politics and on the tangled relationship between race and nationality.

His most recent book, The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era (Oxford University Press, 2022), was shortlisted for the 2022 Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year, and made ‘Best Books’ lists in the United States, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and India.

He is currently working on a new book, Politics in Our Time: Authoritarian Peril and Democratic Hope in the Twenty-First Century.

Gerstle also writes for the Guardian, the New Statesman, the Atlantic Monthly, the Nation, and the New York Review of Books, among others. He frequently appears on BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service, NPR, Channel 4, and on many podcasts.