Alan Brinkley is the Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University. He is a progressive historian of the New Deal. Brinkley writes regularly in magazines such as Newsweek and The New Republic and is a strong advocate for progressive issues.

Career

1971 B.A. from Princeton

1979 Ph.D. from Harvard

1991 professor of American History at Columbia University

1998–1999, Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University

2000-2003 history dept chair

University Provost

Works

• 1982 Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression
• 1992 The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People
• 1995 The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War
• 1998 Liberalism and Its Discontents

See also

Protest populism Reform recession Charlie Coughlin Huey Long FDR Second New Deal Great Slump World War II decentralization federalism progressivism liberalism Keynesian fiscal spending

Awards

• 1983 National Book Award for Voices of Protest
• 1987 Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize