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Alan Brinkley




He is son of television journalist David Brinkley , winner of the Presidential Medal Of Freedom .


CAREER

1971 B.A. Princeton University

1979 Ph.D. Harvard University

1991 professor of American History , Columbia University

1998–1999, Harmsworth Professor of American History, Oxford University

1999-2003 faculty member, the Century Institute

2000-2003 history dept chair

University Provost


WORKS

  • 1982 ''Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression''

  • 1992 ''The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People''

  • 1995 ''The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War''

  • 1998 ''Liberalism and Its Discontents''


Brinkley has also written several textbooks which are used by college and high school U.S. history classes.


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