Diane J. Heith, Ph.D is a Professor and Chair of the Government and Politics Department at St. John’s University. She is the author of Polling to Govern: Public Opinion and Presidential Leadership, and The Presidential Road Show: Public Leadership in a Partisan Era (forthcoming ), co-author of American Presidents and the American Presidency (forthcoming) and co-editor of In the Public Domain: Presidents and the Challenges of Public Leadership. Her research interests and expertise focus on the Presidency, Media, Public Opinion, and American Politics generally. Her work has appeared in Public Opinion Quarterly, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Political Science Quarterly, The Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, The Journal of Women, Politics and Policy, White House Studies and Congress and the Presidency. She received a B.A. from Cornell University, and an MA and Ph.D from Brown University.