Alan Brinkley
Alan Brinkley (1949-2019) was the Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University. He served as university provost at Columbia from 2003 to 2009. He authored works such as Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression, which won the 1983 National Book Award; American History: Connecting with the Past; The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War; Liberalism and Its Discontents; Franklin D. Roosevelt; and The Publisher: Henry Luce and His...See more
Alan Brinkley (1949-2019) was the Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University. He served as university provost at Columbia from 2003 to 2009. He authored works such as Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression, which won the 1983 National Book Award; American History: Connecting with the Past; The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War; Liberalism and Its Discontents; Franklin D. Roosevelt; and The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century. He served as board chair of the National Humanities Center, board chair of the Century Foundation, and a trustee of Oxford University Press. He was also a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1998-1999 he was the Harmsworth Professor of History at Oxford University, and in 2011-2012 the Pitt Professor at the University of Cambridge. He won the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Award at Harvard and the Great Teacher Award at Columbia. He was educated at Princeton and Harvard. See less
Alan Brinkley's Featured Books
Alan Brinkley book reviews
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The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People: Volume 1: To 1877
Well Written
Keeps history interesting and easy to read a good series Read More
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American History
History: Pre-Colimbian to 1800's
I found the book to be very informative and easy to read. Read More
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The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People: Volume I: To 1877
Changes
by BigBear, Jul 17, 2008
Simplistic, well organized, too many pictures, funny to read currently accepted history as opposed to history taught thirty years ago. Read More
