Alan Brinkley
Alan Brinkley was born in Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States on June 2nd, 1949 and is the American Historian. At the age of 70, Alan Brinkley biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Brinkley's scholarship has focused mainly on the period of the Great Depression and World War II. Among his books are Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression (1983), which won the National Book Award. He argued that the two demagogues were not proto-fascists, but represented genuine popular anxieties rooted in the American experience of the Great Depression. He wrote The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (1995); Liberalism and its Discontents (1998); and The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century (2010), which won the Ambassador Book Prize and the Sperber Prize, as well as being a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He is the author of two short biographies: Franklin D. Roosevelt (2009) and John F. Kennedy (2012).
His essay "The Problem of American Conservatism" was published in the American Historical Review in 1994 and sparked scholarly interest in a neglected topic..
He was one of three American historians to have been both Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford (1998-1999) and Pitt Professor of American History at Cambridge (2011-2012). He was an honorary fellow of the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford. He received the Jerome Levenson Teaching Prize in 1982 at Harvard University, where Brinkley taught for seven years; and the Great Teacher Award at Columbia in 2003.
He became the provost of Columbia on July 1, 2003.
He was the chair of the board of the Century Foundation in New York, and he was the chairman of the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. He was also a trustee of Oxford University Press from 2009 to 2012, and a trustee 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.
- 1983 National Book Award for Voices of Protest
- 1987 Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize, Harvard University
- 2003 Great Teacher Award, Columbia University
- 2006-2007 Scholarly Journal Award by Kathy Walh-Henshaw at St. Mary's Lancaster