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About Douglas Brinkley
American author and historian, professor of history
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.
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Books by Douglas Brinkley
The Great Deluge
2006
The wilderness warrior
2009
American Heritage history of the United States
1998
Parish Priest
2006
The Boys of Pointe du Hoc
2005