Alan Brinkley
Alan Brinkley | |
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Born | Washington, D.C., U.S. | June 2, 1949
Died | June 16, 2019 New York City, U.S. | (aged 70)
Occupation | Political historian |
Known for |
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Academic background | |
American history | |
Sub-discipline | Great Depression and World War II |
Institutions | Columbia University |
Alan Brinkley (June 2, 1949 – June 16, 2019)
Early life
Brinkley was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Ann (Fischer) and David Brinkley, a long-time television newscaster at NBC and ABC. Alan was a brother of Joel Brinkley. He attended the Landon School, a private boys' preparatory school in Bethesda, Maryland,[4] between 1958 and 1967.[5] In 2011, the Alan Brinkley ’67 Lecture Series at Landon was created in his honor.[5]
Brinkley graduated with an A.B. from the
Career
Brinkley's scholarship focused mainly on the period of the
His essay "The Problem of American Conservatism" was published in the
He was one of three American historians to have been both
He was the chair of the board of the Century Foundation in New York and chairman of the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. He also served as a trustee of Oxford University Press from 2009 to 2012 and of the Dalton School.
In 2018, Columbia University Press published Alan Brinkley: A Life in History, edited by David Greenberg, Moshik Temkin, and Mason B. Williams. The book includes essays about Brinkley's scholarship and career by many of his doctoral advisees as well as personal essays by friends and colleagues of his including A. Scott Berg, Frank Rich, and Nicholas Lemann.
Textbooks
Brinkley was the senior author of two best-selling American history textbooks, American History: A Survey and The Unfinished Nation. They are widely used in universities and in AP United States History high school classes. He also wrote the commonly-used AP US History textbook American History: Connecting with the Past.
Brinkley assumed sole responsibility for the ninth edition of American History: A Survey from historians Richard N. Current, Frank Freidel, and T. Harry Williams. He had joined the team to help with the 1979 revisions. Historian Emil Pocock, evaluating Brinkley’s 1995 revision, said it was
- Typical of the mass market textbook. ... Brinkley offers a traditional narrative of American history. Built around a core of political and economic events, this attractive colored text contains a good selection of illustrations, maps, charts, and other graphics, as well as other features designed to make it stand out among the competition. ... This latest edition has integrated additional material on immigrants, Native Americans, African-Americans, and women into the political narrative.[10]
Personal details
He lived in Manhattan, New York with his wife, Evangeline Morphos, and his daughter, Elly.
On June 16, 2019, Brinkley died at his home in Manhattan from complications of frontotemporal dementia.[4]
Works
- America in the Twentieth Century (1960), co-authored with Frank Freidel; 5th ed. published in 1982 – used in college 20th century U.S. history classes.[11]
- AP U.S. History and International Baccalaureate History courses.[12]
- 1982 Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression — winner of the National Book Award[8][a][13]
- 1992 The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People (2 vols.). Later eds. are co-written by Harvey H. Jackson and Bradley Robert Rice.[14][15]
- 1995 The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War[16]
- 1997 New Federalist Papers: Essays in Defense of the Constitution with Nelson W. Polsby and Kathleen M. Sullivan
- 1998 Liberalism and Its Discontents[17]
- 1999 Culture and Politics in the Great Depression[18]
- 2009 Franklin Delano Roosevelt[19]
- 2010 The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century[20]
- 2012 John F. Kennedy: The American Presidents Series: The 35th President, 1961-1963[21]
Awards
- 1983 National Book Award for Voices of Protest[8][a]
- 1987 Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize, Harvard University
- 2003 Great Teacher Award, Columbia University[22]
- 2006-2007 Scholarly Journal Award by Kathy Walh-Henshaw at St. Mary's Lancaster
Notes
- ^ a b c
This was the 1980 award for hardcover History.
From 1980 to 1983 in National Book Award history there were dual hardcover and paperback awards in most categories, and several nonfiction subcategories including General Nonfiction. Most of the paperback award-winners were reprints, including the 1983 History.
References
- ^ Alan Brinkley, Leading Historian of 20th-Century America, Dies at 70
- ^ ABC News
- ^ See "Provost Brinkley Will Return To Teaching, Research" November/December 2008
- ^ ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 17, 2019.
- ^ a b "Landon Lectures Honor Historian Alan Brinkley". www.landon.net. Retrieved August 5, 2023.
- ^ Brinkley, Alan David. Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (ed.). "The Gospel of Discontent: Huey Long in National Politics 1932-1935".
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(help) - ^ Greenberg, 2019, p. 13.
- ^ a b c "National Book Awards – 1983". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-04-13.
- ^ "Alan Brinkley Appointed Provost". April 1, 2003.
- ^ Peter J. Parish, ed. Reader's Guide to American History (1997) pp 692-93.
- ISBN 9780394327808. Retrieved June 17, 2019 – via Internet Archive.
- ISBN 9780079121141. Retrieved June 17, 2019 – via Internet Archive.
- ISBN 9780394522418. Retrieved June 17, 2019 – via Google Books.
- ISBN 9780679454595. Retrieved June 17, 2019 – via Google Books.
- ISBN 9780070078727. Retrieved June 17, 2019 – via books.google.com.
- ISBN 9780394535739. Retrieved June 17, 2019 – via Internet Archive.
- ISBN 9780674530171. Retrieved June 17, 2019 – via Google Books.
- ISBN 9780918954725. Retrieved June 17, 2019 – via Google Books.
- ISBN 9780199732029. Retrieved June 17, 2019 – via Google Books.
- ISBN 9780679414445. Retrieved June 17, 2019 – via Google Books.
- ISBN 9781410449641. Retrieved June 17, 2019 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "Master Recipient List".
Further reading
- Brinkley, Alan. “The Challenges and Rewards of Textbook Writing: An Interview with Alan Brinkley.” Journal of American History 91#4 (2005): 1391–97 online.
- Greenberg, David, et al. eds. Alan Brinkley: A Life in History (2019); essays on Brinkley's career. excerpt https://doi.org/10.7312/gree18724
- Greenberg, David. “After Reform: The Odyssey of American Liberalism in Liberalism and its Discontents.” in Alan Brinkley: A Life in History, edited by David Greenberg et al., (2019), pp. 39–52, online.
External links
- A Time to Remember, How Henry Luce Founded a Magazine Empire That Became His Bully Pulpit, The Wall Street Journal, 17 April 2010
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Interview with Alan Brinkley by Stephen McKiernan, Binghamton University Libraries Center for the Study of the 1960s, August 13, 1997