in 1972, Magna Cum Laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.He spent his junior year abroad at Harris Manchester College, Oxford.[11] He is an author or editor of five books, most notably, The Rhetorical Presidency[12] and (with Nicole Mellow) Legacies of Losing in American Politics.,[13] and more than seventy articles and essays.[14][15] It was the subject of numerous academic symposia and conferences that produced four volumes of collected essays, and a special double issue of the journal, Critical Review, where the editor describes this book as “one of the two or three most important and perceptive works written by a political scientist in the twentieth century.”[16] It was the subject of an editorial in The New York Times[17] and of essays by leading public intellectuals including George F. Will,[18] Joan Didion,[19] Walter Berns[20] and Jill Lepore.[26] Since 2015, in response to what he characterizes as an anti-constitutional turn in American politics marked by the rise of Trump and Trumpism, Tulis has engaged American politics with public facing essays in The Washington Post;[27] The Atlantic;[28] The Bulwark;[29] Public Seminar;[30] the LSE American Politics and Policy Blog[31] and The Constitutionalist.