Douglas Brinkley

American author and historian, professor of history84 QUOTES

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Douglas Brinkley is an American author, historian, and professor of history at Rice University. He is also the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities, a history commentator for CNN, and Presidential Historian for the New York Historical. Brinkley has written widely on American history and public affairs, and he serves as a contributing editor to Vanity Fair. He is also a public spokesperson on conservation issues. He joined the Rice faculty in 2007 and the board of directors of the National Archives Foundation in 2023.

“I was stunned to find out there had never been a serious, scholarly biography ever written on Rosa Parks.”

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“One of the things I learned in editing 'The Reagan Diaries' is to never say what Reagan would do, because he surprised people.”

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“There is nobody that's ever going to fill Ted Kennedy's shoes, and that's a tall order for somebody in the family to try to live up to.”

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“If Reagan had intelligence information that showed that the upheaval in Egypt is actually Democratic in spirit, then he would have, I believe, turned his back on Mubarak, even though there's a long friendship between the United States and Egypt.”

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