William Graebner is professor of history at the State University of New York, College at Fredonia. He has written on a variety of aspects of twentieth-century American history. His books include A History of Retirement (1980), The Engineering of Consent: Democracy and Authority in Twentieth-Century America (1987), Coming of Age in Buffalo (1990), and The Age of Doubt: American Thought and Culture in the 1940s (1991). He is Associate Editor of American Studies.