Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University, the CNN Presidential Historian, and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. He works in many capacities in the world of public history, including on boards, museums, colleges and historical societies. The Chicago Tribune dubbed him “America’s New Past Master.”
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Douglas Brinkley
American Historian and Best-Selling Author; Presidential Historian, CNN; Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University
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Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University, the CNN Presidential Historian, and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. He works in many capacities in the world of public history, including on boards, museums, colleges and historical societies. The Chicago Tribune dubbed him “America’s New Past Master.”
The New-York Historical Society has chosen Brinkley their official U.S. Presidential Historian. His most recent book American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race was a New York Times bestseller. In addition Cronkite won the Sperber Prize while The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He has received a Grammy Award for Presidential Suite and seven honorary doctorates in American Studies. His two-volume annotated The Nixon Tapes recently won the Arthur S. Link – Warren F. Kuehl Prize. He is a member of the Century Association, Council of Foreign Relations and the James Madison Council of the Library of Congress. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and three children.
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The Business Innovators: Henry Ford to Jeff Bezos
Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and Space
Highs and Lows of the American Presidency: Past, Present and Future
Race Relations in America: The Past, Present and Future
The U.S. Military: Historical Perspective and Future Needs
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Douglas Brinkley: Historian and Author of "American Moonshot"
A Conversation with Douglas Brinkley (History with David M. Rubenstein)
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Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, and the Great Environmental Awakening
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