Douglas Brinkley joined the faculty of Rice University as a professor of history in 2007.
18 Facts About Douglas Brinkley
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Douglas Brinkley was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1960, but after his father was transferred to the Toledo, Ohio headquarters of Owens-Illinois in 1969, did his remaining elementary and secondary schooling in Perrysburg, Ohio.
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Douglas Brinkley has been on the faculty of Hofstra University, the University of New Orleans, Tulane University, and Rice University.
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Douglas Brinkley received an honorary doctorate for his contributions to American letters from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Ambrose chose Douglas Brinkley to become director of the Eisenhower Center, a post he held for five years before moving to Tulane University.
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Douglas Brinkley's second was Dean Acheson: The Cold War Years.
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Douglas Brinkley then co-edited a monograph series with Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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Douglas Brinkley is the editor of a three-volume collection of Thompson's letters.
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Douglas Brinkley is the authorized biographer for Beat generation author Jack Kerouac, having edited Kerouac's diaries as Windblown World.
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In 2004, Douglas Brinkley released Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War, about US Senator John Kerry's prior military service and anti-war activism during the Vietnam War.
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Douglas Brinkley wrote the Atlantic Monthly cover story of December 2003 on Kerry.
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Douglas Brinkley's book The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast is a record of the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast.
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Douglas Brinkley served as the primary historian for Spike Lee's documentary about Hurricane Katrina, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts.
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Douglas Brinkley co-edited with Johnny Depp the long lost novel of Woody Guthrie titled House of Earth.
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In January 2022, Douglas Brinkley compared the 2021 United States Capitol attack to the Holocaust, the September 11 attacks, and the Attack on Pearl Harbor.
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On November 18,2011, during his testimony before a Congressional hearing on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Douglas Brinkley had a heated exchange with Rep.
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Douglas Brinkley continued to argue with Young throughout the hearing until the committee chairman threatened to have Douglas Brinkley removed.
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Douglas Brinkley is a member of the Century Association, the Council on Foreign Relations and Society of American Historians.