David S. Brown
American historian
David Scott Brown (born 29 September, 1966) is a Horace E. Raffensperger professor of history at Elizabethtown College , Pennsylvania , United States.[ 1] [ 2] Richard Hofstadter and F. Scott Fitzgerald .
Education and career
Brown was born on 29 September, 1966 in Troy, Ohio .[ 3] Wright State University in 1990 and earned a master's degree from the University of Akron in 1992. He completed his Ph.D. in 1995 at the University of Toledo .[ 1] [ 3]
Brown joined Elizabethtown College in 1997, after previously teaching at the University of Toledo, Washtenaw Community College , and Saginaw Valley State University . He was named Raffensperger Professor in 2012.[ 1]
Books
In 2006, he published Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography . The book explores the life and times of Columbia University historian Richard Hofstadter .[ 4]
His 2009 book Beyond the Frontier: The Midwestern Voice in American Historical Writing (also from the University of Chicago Press) is a study of Midwestern historians and their influence on the American historical profession.[ 5]
He is also the author of Thomas Jefferson: A Biographical Companion (ABC-Clio, 1998);[ 3] Moderates: The Vital Center of American Politics, from the Founding to Today (University of North Carolina Press, 2016);[ 6] Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Harvard University Press, 2017);[ 7] The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams (Scribner, 2020); and The First Populist: The Defiant Life of Andrew Jackson (Scribner, 2022).
References
^ a b c Elizabethtown College announces appointment of David S. Brown to Raffensperger Professor of History ^ History faculty , retrieved 2019-07-14 ^ a b c "Brown, David S. 1966–" , Gale Contemporary Authors , retrieved 2019-07-14 ^ Reviews of Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography :
"Nonfiction book review" , Publishers Weekly Kirsch, Adam (April 12, 2006), "He Defined Postwar Liberalism" , New York Sun McClay, Wilfred M. (May 13, 2006), "Writer's Block" , Wall Street Journal Greenberg, David (June 7, 2006), "Richard Hofstadter: The pundits' favorite historian" , Slate Romano, Carlin (June 30, 2006), "Get Me Revision! Remembering Richard Hofstadter" , The Chronicle of Higher Education Wilentz, Sean (July 10, 2006), "What Was Liberal History?", The New Republic , pp. 21–27 Tanenhaus, Sam (August 6, 2006), "The Education of Richard Hofstadter" , The New York Times Lakoff, Sanford (Summer 2006), "Champion of Liberalism", The Wilson Quarterly , 30 (3): 104–105, JSTOR 40261403 Kuklick, Bruce (Fall 2006), Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society , 42 (4): 574–577, JSTOR 40321350 {{citation }}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link )Dionne, E. J. (August 23, 2006), "Richard Hofstadter: liberalism's debate with itself" , Washington Post – via Seattle Times Neuchterlein, James A. (November 2006), "Review" , Commentary Smith, John David (January 2007), The North Carolina Historical Review , 84 (1): 121–122, JSTOR 23523307 {{citation }}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link )Guelzo, Allen C. (January–February 2007), "History with a Smirk" , Books & Culture Morantz-Sanchez, Regina (Spring 2007), American Studies , 48 (1): 167–169, JSTOR 40644033 {{citation }}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link )Jumonville, Neil (June 2007), The Journal of American History , 94 (1): 338–339, doi :10.2307/25094920 , JSTOR 25094920 {{citation }}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link )Geary, Daniel (September 2007), "Richard Hofstadter Reconsidered", Reviews in American History , 35 (3): 425–431, doi :10.1353/rah.2007.0052 , JSTOR 30031626 , S2CID 145240475 Kloppenberg, James T. (October 2007), The American Historical Review , 112 (4): 1125–1127, doi :10.1086/ahr.112.4.1125 , JSTOR 4000844 {{citation }}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link )Knee, Stuart E. (Fall 2007), The Historian , 69 (3): 524–525, doi :10.1111/j.1540-6563.2007.00189_10.x , JSTOR 24453839 , S2CID 145454631 {{citation }}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link )Vandome, Robin (December 2007), Journal of American Studies , 41 (3): 695, doi :10.1017/S0021875807004185 , JSTOR 27558068 {{citation }}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link )Minus, Ed (Winter 2007), "Making History", The Sewanee Review , 115 (1): 21–23, doi :10.1353/sew.2007.0017 , JSTOR 40211524 , S2CID 201789888 Burke, Albie (May 2008), The History Teacher , 41 (3): 405–407, doi :10.2307/30036920 JSTOR 30036920 {{citation }}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link )Smant, Kevin J. (Winter 2008), "American Critic", The Review of Politics , 70 (1): 139–141, doi :10.1017/S0034670508000259 , JSTOR 20452972 Helicher, Karl (August 18, 2009), "Review" (PDF) , Foreword Reviews Michaels, D. (June 3, 2013), "History Lesson" , Jewish Exponent ^ Reviews of Beyond the Frontier: The Midwestern Voice in American Historical Writing :
Cooper, John Milton (January 18, 2010), "Madison Rules: The astonishing influence of one Midwestern history department" , The Weekly Standard , vol. 15, no. 17, archived from the original on January 7, 2012 Reid, Robert L. (March 2010), The Journal of American History , 96 (4): 1146, doi :10.1093/jahist/96.4.1146 , JSTOR 40661838 {{citation }}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link )Nugent, Walter (May 2010), Pacific Historical Review , 79 (2): 292–293, doi :10.1525/phr.2010.79.2.292 , JSTOR 10.1525/phr.2010.79.2.292 {{citation }}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link )Miller, John E. (Fall 2010), Agricultural History , 84 (4): 548–549, JSTOR 27869025 {{citation }}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link )Erekson, Keith A. (Spring 2011), "Review" , Ohio Valley History , 11 (1): 92–93 Cayton, Andrew (April 2013), The American Historical Review , 118 (2): 476, doi :10.1093/ahr/118.2.476 , JSTOR 23425898 {{citation }}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link ) ^ Reviews of Moderates: The Vital Center of American Politics :
"Nonfiction book review" , Publishers Weekly "The moderate tradition in American politics" , Kirkus Reviews , October 2016Seal, Andrew (January 22, 2017), "The Neglected Middle of U.S. Politics" , The Chronicle of Higher Education Akst, Daniel (April 2, 2017), "In Praise of the Fence Sitters" , The Wall Street Journal Schlozman, Daniel (September 8, 2017), "In Equilibrio: Is the politics of moderation really the best way to avoid tyranny?" , The Nation Donaldson, Gary (December 2017), The American Historical Review , 122 (5): 1611–1612, doi :10.1093/ahr/122.5.1611 {{citation }}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link )Draper, Alan (2018), Journal of Southern History , 84 (1): 147–148, doi :10.1353/soh.2018.0009 , S2CID 165510110 {{citation }}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link )Johnson, Matthew (June 2018), Journal of American History , 105 (1): 135, doi :10.1093/jahist/jay023 {{citation }}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link ) ^ Reviews of Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald :
"Nonfiction book review" , Publishers Weekly Donaldson, Scott (2017), The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review , 15 (1): 200–203, doi :10.5325/fscotfitzrevi.15.1.0200 , JSTOR 10.5325/fscotfitzrevi.15.1.0200 {{citation }}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link )"A fresh biography of the great American writer" , Kirkus Reviews , March 2017Parini, Jay (May 2017), "Tender is the Writer" , Literary Review Alexander, Paul (May 18, 2017), "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Our nation's most poetic interpreter" , Washington Post McEwen, Todd (May 18, 2017), "Review" , The Herald Morris, James McGrath (May 18, 2017), "Does F. Scott Fitzgerald still matter? A new biography makes the case" , Dallas News Carey, John (May 21, 2017), "Review" , The Sunday Times Rovie, Eric (June 20, 2017), "Review" , PopMatters Daniel, Anne Margaret (June 24, 2017), "F. Scott Fitzgerald: haunted by nostalgia" , The Spectator Altschuler, Glenn C. (July 2, 2017), "David Brown's biography, 'Paradise Lost', is detailed account of F. Scott Fitzgerald's life and work" (PDF) , Tulsa World Mahony, Christina Hunt (July 22, 2017), "Behind the poster boy" , The Irish Times Rubin, Martin (August 7, 2017), "A famed novelist and his fatal hubris" , Washington Times Short, Edward (October 6, 2017), "F. Scott Fitzgerald, Socialist Version: A revisionist biography fails to convince in its portrait of the American novelist as a serious critic of market capitalism" , City Journal Banville, John (November 9, 2017), "Tender Is the Fall" , The New York Review of Books St. Thomas, Mike (January 4, 2018), "Borne Back Into the Past" , Bunk Harvey, Alex (July 5, 2018), "He had it all" , London Review of Books , 40 (13): 32–34 Baresel, James (August 2, 2018), "Review" , Southern Literary Review Altman, James (September 2018), The Journal of American Culture , 41 (3): 337–338, doi :10.1111/jacc.12951 {{citation }}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link )
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