Alan Brinkley

Alan Brinkley is the Allan Nevins Professor of American History at Columbia University. He is the author of Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression, which won the 1983 American Book Award; The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People; The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War; and Liberalism and its Discontents. He was educated at Princeton and Harvard and has taught at M.I.T., Harvard (where he received the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize), Princeton, the City University of New York Graduate School, and Oxford University, where he was the Harmsworth Professor of American History in 1998-99. His articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in The American Historical Review, The Journal of American History, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and Book Review, The New Republic, The Times Literary Supplement, and other journals.