John Anthony Maltese

John Anthony Maltese is Associate Dean of the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia and the Albert B. Saye Professor of American Government and Constitutional Law in the Department of Political Science. His books include Spin Control: The White House Office of Communications and the Management of Presidential News, The Selling of Supreme Court Nominees (winner of the “C. Herman Pritchett Award for Best Book on Judicial Politics” from the Law & Courts Section of the American Political Science Association), and (with Joseph A. Pika and Andrew Rudalevige) The Politics of the Presidency, currently in its 11th revised edition.

He was named U.S. Professor of the Year for the state of Georgia by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and is a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor (the University of Georgia’s highest teaching honor). He was also named a University Professor (for making a significant impact on the University of Georgia beyond his normal academic responsibilities).

Maltese also writes about classical music. He won a Grammy Award from the National Academy of Arts and Sciences for his work on the 65-CD set, “The Heifetz Collection,” has published liner notes for recordings issued by Deutsche Grammophon, RCA/BMG, and Sony, and is writing a biography of the violinist Jascha Heifetz. He is an avid collector of historic sound recordings and musical manuscripts and artifacts. Rare recordings from his collection have been used in historic reissues published by many different record companies, and rare documents from his collection have been displayed in museums around the world—from the Edmund D. Edelman Hollywood Bowl Museum in California to the Exilarte Center for Banned Music at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria.