Alan Brinkley (1949–2019)
Author of Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression
About the Author
Alan Brinkley was born in 1949. He earned his Ph.D. at Harvard University and taught at MIT and Harvard as well as City University of New York and Princeton University before joining the Columbia faculty in 1991. He is the Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University, where he was also show more Provost from 2003 - 2009. He is a historian of the New Deal. A prolific essayist, Brinkley writes regularly in magazines such as The New York Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, Newsweek and The New Republic and is an advocate for progressive issues. 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. He also serves as a board member or trustee of several academic and policy research institutions and chairs the board of The Century Foundation. His works include Liberalism and Its Discontents, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Alan Brinkley
The Chicago Handbook for Teachers: A Practical Guide to the College Classroom (1999) 113 copies, 1 review
New Federalist Papers: Essays in Defense of the Constitution (A Twentieth Century Fund Book) (1997) 86 copies, 1 review
Study Guide With Map Exercises; Vol 1 To Accompany American History: A Survey, Vol. II: To 1877 (12th Edition) (2006) 2 copies
Unfinished Nation - Nasta Edition Grades 9-12: A Concise History of the American People (2013) 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Brinkley, Alan
- Birthdate
- 1949-06-02
- Date of death
- 2019-06-16
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Place of death
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Cause of death
- complications of frontotemporal dementia
- Places of residence
- New York, New York, USA
- Education
- Princeton University (AB | 1971)
Harvard University (AM | 1975)
Harvard University (PhD | 1979) - Occupations
- professor
- Relationships
- Brinkley, David (father)
Morphos, Evangeline (wife)
Brinkley, Joel (brother) - Organizations
- Columbia University
Organization of American Historians
Society of American Historians
American Historical Association
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999)
Harvard University (show all 7)
City University of New York - Awards and honors
- Joseph R. Levenson Teaching Award (1987)
National Book Award (1983)
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Statistics
- Works
- 37
- Also by
- 2
- Members
- 2,795
- Popularity
- #9,200
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 24
- ISBNs
- 186
- Languages
- 5