Douglas Brinkley

Douglas Brinkley


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Monumental in his contribution to American culture, Douglas Brinkley takes the historical lessons of the past and applies them to the present and our future.
Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University, the CNN Presidential Historian, and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. He works in many capacities in the world of public history, including on boards, museums, colleges and historical societies. The Chicago Tribune dubbed him “America’s New Past Master.” The New-York Historical Society has chosen Brinkley their official U.S. Presidential Historian. His most recent book American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race was a New York Times bestseller. In addition Cronkite won the Sperber Prize while The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He has received a Grammy Award for Presidential Suite and seven honorary doctorates in American Studies. His two-volume annotated The Nixon Tapes recently won the Arthur S. Link – Warren F. Kuehl Prize. He is a member of the Century Association, Council of Foreign Relations and the James Madison Council of the Library of Congress. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and three children.
Featured Videos
Douglas Brinkley's Speech Topics
The U.S. Military: Historical Perspective and Future Needs
The Business Innovators: Henry Ford to Jeff Bezos
Race Relations in America: The Past, Present and Future
Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and Space
Highs and Lows of the American Presidency: Past, Present and Future
Works by Douglas Brinkley
Douglas Brinkley
Rosa Parks: A Life (opens in a new tab)
Douglas Brinkley
The Boys of Pointe du Hoc: Ronald Reagan, D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion (opens in a new tab)
Douglas Brinkley
The Great Deluge: Hurrican Katrina, New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast (opens in a new tab)
Douglas Brinkley
The Reagan Diaries (opens in a new tab)
Douglas Brinkley
The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America, 1858-1919 (opens in a new tab)
Douglas Brinkley
The Quiet World: Saving Alaska's Wilderness Kingdom, 1879-1960 (opens in a new tab)
Douglas Brinkley
The Notes: Ronald Reagan's Private Collection of Stories and Wisdom (opens in a new tab)
Douglas Brinkley
Cronkite (opens in a new tab)
Douglas Brinkley
The Nixol Tapes (opens in a new tab)
Douglas Brinkley
JFK: A Vision for America (opens in a new tab)
Douglas Brinkley