Robert F. Wesser is Professor of History at the State University of New York at Albany, where he has been a faculty member since 1966. He also holds a joint appointment at the Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy. Wesser is the author of "Charles Evans Hughes: Politics and Reform in New York, 1905-1910", the first of his projected three-volume set on the period. "A Response to Progressivism" is the second book, and Wesser is now at work on the final volume, a biography of Al Smith.