Saladin M. Ambar
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Saladin M. Ambar

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Saladin Ambar writes and teaches about American politics at Rutgers University's Eagleton Institute of Politics in New Brunswick, NJ. He is the author of six books: Murder on the Mississippi: The Shocking Crimes That Shaped Abraham Lincoln (Diversion Books, 2025); Stars and Shadows: The Politics of Interracial Friendship from Jefferson to Obama (Oxford University Press, 2022); Reconsidering American Political Thought: A New Identity (Routledge 2019); American Cicero: Mario Cuomo and the Defense of American Liberalism (Oxford University Press 2017); Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era (Oxford University Press 2014); and How Governors Built the Modern American Presidency (University of Pennsylvania Press 2012). He was a contributing analyst to the CNN series, "Race to the White House," and is a scholarly adviser to the Lincoln Presidential Foundation and Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum.. Dr. Ambar is the father of 18 year-old triplets, and lives in Philadelphia, PA.
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