Alan Brinkley

Alan Brinkley (born June 2, 1949)^[1] is an American historian whose scholarship focuses on the mid-20th century United States. He won the National Book Award for Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression.^[2]

Brinkley 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.^[3] 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 Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Book Award for History, and other prizes and fellowships. He 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.

Works

• 1982, Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression —winner of the National Book Award^[2][a]
• 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
• 2012, John F. Kennedy: The American Presidents Series: The 35th President, 1961-1963

Textbooks

Brinkley has written at least two textbooks that are used by college and high school U.S. History classes.

• American History: A Survey, originally by Current, Williams & Freidel (1961), by Brinkley in recent editions — used especially for AP U.S. History and International Baccalaureate History courses
• The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People — another AP US History text

Awards

• 1983 National Book Award for Voices of Protest^[2][a]
• 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

Notes

References

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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