- Born: 1927
- Birthplace: Brooklyn, NY
Irwin Unger is a professor of History at New York University, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1965 for his economic study of America in the mid-nineteenth century, The Greenback Era. Unger graduated from Columbia University in 1948, and went on for a master's and doctorate from NYU. Primarily interested in radicalism and reform and the economic history of America, he has written a number of other books on American history and has received numerous honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship, and the American Council of Learned Societies Senior Fellowship.
Most Famous Works
- The Greenback Era (1965)
- The "New Left" and American History: Some Recent Trends in United States Historiography (1967)
- The Movement: The American New Left, 1959-1973 (1973)
- The Vulnerable Years: The United States, 1896-1917 (1977)
- These United States: The Questions of Our Past (1978)
- Turning Point, 1968 with Debi Unger (1988)
- The Best of Intentions: The Great Society Programs of Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon (1995)
