David Scott Brown (born 29 September, 1966) is a Horace E. Raffensperger professor of history at Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania, United States.[1][2] He is the author of several books, including biographies of Richard Hofstadter and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Education and career
Brown was born on 29 September, 1966 in Troy, Ohio.[3] He graduated from 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] and The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams (Scribner, 2020).
References
- 1 2 3 Elizabethtown College announces appointment of David S. Brown to Raffensperger Professor of History, Elizabethtown College, August 31, 2012 – via readMedia
- ↑ History faculty, Elizabethtown College, retrieved 2019-07-14
- 1 2 3 "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
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- ↑ Reviews of Moderates: The Vital Center of American Politics:
- "Nonfiction book review", Publishers Weekly
- "The moderate tradition in American politics", Kirkus Reviews, October 2016
- Seal, 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
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- ↑ 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 2017
- Parini, 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
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