Alan David Brinkley was an American political historian who taught for over 20 years at Columbia University.
16 Facts About Alan Brinkley
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Alan Brinkley was the Allan Nevins Professor of History until his death.
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Alan Brinkley attended the Landon School, a private boys' preparatory school in Bethesda, Maryland, between 1958 and 1967.
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Alan Brinkley's scholarship focused mainly on the period of the Great Depression and World War II.
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Alan Brinkley wrote The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War ; Liberalism and its Discontents ; and The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century, which won the Ambassador Book Prize and the Sperber Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
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Alan Brinkley wrote two short biographies: Franklin D Roosevelt and John F Kennedy.
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Alan Brinkley was one of three American historians to have been both Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford and Pitt Professor of American History at Cambridge.
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Alan Brinkley was an honorary fellow of the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford.
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Alan Brinkley received the Jerome Levenson Teaching Prize in 1982 at Harvard University, where Brinkley taught for seven years; and the Great Teacher Award at Columbia University in 2003, where he became provost on July 1 of that year.
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Alan Brinkley was the chair of the board of the Century Foundation in New York and chairman of the National Humanities Center in North Carolina.
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Alan Brinkley served as a trustee of Oxford University Press from 2009 to 2012 and of the Dalton School.
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Alan Brinkley was the senior author of two best-selling American history textbooks, American History: A Survey and The Unfinished Nation.
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Alan Brinkley wrote the commonly-used AP US History textbook American History: Connecting with the Past.
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Alan Brinkley had joined the team to help with the 1979 revisions.
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Alan Brinkley lived in Manhattan, New York with his wife, Evangeline Morphos, and his daughter, Elly.
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On June 16,2019, Alan Brinkley died at his home in Manhattan from complications of frontotemporal dementia.