Alan Brinkley was the 20th Provost and is the Allan Nevins Professor of
History at Columbia University in the City of New York. A native of
Washington, D.C., he was educated at Princeton and at Harvard, where he
received his Ph.D. in history in 1979. Before joining the Columbia
faculty in 1991, he taught at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Harvard, and the City University of New York Graduate
Center. Among his publications are Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father
Coughlin, and the Great Depression (Knopf, 1982), which won the 1983
National Book Award; The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in
Recession and War (Knopf, 1995); and Liberalism and Its Discontents
(Harvard, 1998). He is also the author of two widely-used college
American history textbooks: American History: A Survey, now in its
eleventh edition; and The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the
American People, now in its fourth edition. His essays, articles, and
reviews have appeared widely in scholarly journals and in such other
publications as the New York Times Book Review and Magazine; the New
York Review of Books; the New Republic; the New Yorker; the Times
Literary Supplement; the London Review of Books; Time; Newsweek;
Harper's; and the Atlantic.
