Alan Brinkley
Alan Brinkley (born June 2, 1949)[1] is the Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University, where he was also Provost 2003–2009. He was denied tenure at Harvard University in 1986 despite being an award-winning teacher.[2] He lives in New York City with his wife, Evangeline, daughter Elly, and dog Jessie. Brinkley is the son of television newscaster David Brinkley.
Brinkley has won a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the National Book Award for History, and numerous other prizes and fellowships, and was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[1] He also serves as a board member or trustee of several academic and policy research institutions and chairs the board of The Century Foundation.
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[edit] Works
- 1982 Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression
- 1992 The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People
- 1995 The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War
- 1998 Liberalism and Its Discontents
- 2009 Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 2010 The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century
[edit] Textbooks
- American History: A Survey - an AP U.S. History and International Baccalaureate History Textbook used in high schools and college.
- The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People - AP Textbook used in high schools.
Brinkley has also written several textbooks which are used by college and high school U.S. history classes.
[edit] Awards
- 1983 National Book Award for Voices of Protest
- 1987 Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize, Harvard University
- 2003 Great Teacher Award, Columbia University
- 2006-2007 Scholarly Journal Award by Kathy Walh-Henshaw at St. Mary's Lancaster
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Alan Brinkley". Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale. 2011.
- ^ Nolan, Michael D. (1986-09-29). "Brinkley tenure bid ends unsuccessfully". The Harvard Crimson. http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1986/9/29/brinkley-tenure-bid-ends-unsuccessfully-pdunwalke/. Retrieved 2011-11-27.
[edit] External links
- Columbia University profile
- A Time to Remember, How Henry Luce Founded a Magazine Empire That Became His Bully Pulpit, The Wall Street Journal, 17 April 2010
- Audio interview with Brinkley at National Review Online
- Booknotes interview with Brinkley on The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People, October 10, 1993.
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