14 Facts About HW Brands

HW Brands's works have twice been selected as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.

HW Brands attended Jesuit High School, where he was a three-sport athlete and National Merit Scholar.

HW Brands enrolled at Stanford University studying mathematics and history, receiving his undergraduate degree in history in 1975.

HW Brands enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin to study under historian Robert A Divine.

HW Brands wrote his dissertation on the Eisenhower administration and its foreign policy during the Cold War, earning his Ph.

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HW Brands's preferred method of transit was his bicycle as he commuted between classes at the University of Texas and his teaching responsibilities at the college preparatory school on the fringe of the UT campus and ACC's Rio Grande site in Central Austin.

HW Brands made the daily commute from his home in Austin to teach in College Station.

HW Brands takes a progressive view on the nation's founders and the United States Constitution, arguing that the founders were at heart radicals who were willing to challenge the status quo in search of a better future.

HW Brands believes that Americans place too much importance on the individual in the White House.

HW Brands's books are known for their readability and narrative thrust.

HW Brands has authored twenty-four books, co-authored three others with T H Breen, and produced numerous articles that have been featured in newspapers and magazines.

HW Brands has appeared in the documentaries The Presidents, 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America, America: The Story of Us, The Men Who Built America, The World Wars, and The Eighties.

HW Brands's writings have been published in several countries and translated into German, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

HW Brands's son Hal HW Brands is a scholar of US foreign policy.