Douglas Brinkley’s books explore American history from old times to new, from one end of the country to the other, through profiles of events and people and institutions. His book “The Quiet World: Saving Alaska’s Wilderness Kingdom” was published in 2011.
Presidential historian and author Douglas Brinkley discusses his book “American Moonshot,” a chronicle of the turbulent 1960s and JFK’s audacious plan to put a man on the moon.
Douglas Brinkley is a highly regarded and best-selling author, CNN Presidential Historian, the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair.
