David Farber is the Roy A. Roberts Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Kansas. Farber previously taught at Temple University, the University of New Mexico, Barnard College, and the University of Hawaii. He is the author of a number books about America in the twentieth century, including The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s, The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism: A Short History, Sloan Rules: Alfred P. Sloan and the Triumph of General Motors, and Chicago '68, the last two published by the University of Chicago Press.