Jennifer Frost

Jennifer Frost is a historian of 20th century United States society, politics, and culture at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Born and raised in California, she has now lived and worked in New Zealand for twenty years. Her first book, “An Interracial Movement of the Poor," was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title in 2002. Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood, her second book, was included on the Wall Street Journal's 2011 list of the five best books on Hollywood and politics. Her co-edited collection of essays with Kathleen A. Feeley about gossip in American history appeared in 2014, followed by Producer of Controversy: Stanley Kramer, Hollywood liberalism, and the Cold War (2017) and Teaching History with Message Movies (2018), with Steven Alan Carr. Her newest book is "Let Us Vote!" Youth Voting Rights and the 26th Amendment, forthcoming in December 2021.