Wyatt Wells is professor of history at Auburn University—Montgomery, where he served as department chair from 2005 to 2008. He is the author of numerous books and articles on business and economic history, including The American Economy Since 1945, Antitrust and the Formation of the Postwar World, and Economist in an Uncertain World: Arthur F. Burns and the Federal Reserve, 1970–1978. He also served as assistant editor of the Andrew Jackson Papers at the University of Tennessee. Wells earned a B.A. with honors in history at Vanderbilt University, as well as an M.A. and Ph.D. in American history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.