Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Douglas Brinkley (born December 14, 1960) is an American author, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities, [1] and professor of history at Rice University. Brinkley is a history commentator for CNN , Presidential Historian for the New York Historical Society, and a contributing editor to the magazine Vanity Fair . [ 2 ]
Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening is a 2022 nonfiction book by Douglas Brinkley that examines third-wave environmentalism in the "long sixties" (1960–1973). The book was reviewed in several publications.
The book was edited by Douglas Brinkley and was published by HarperCollins in 2007, three years after Reagan's death. [1] It reached the number one spot on The New York Times Best Seller list . The complete diaries of his presidency were published in an unabridged form in 2009.
David Brinkley (1920–2003), television journalist; David R. Brinkley (born 1959), Maryland politician; Don Brinkley, (1921–2012) television writer and producer, adoptive father of Christie; Douglas Brinkley (born 1960), American author and historian; Francis Brinkley (1841–1912), Anglo-Irish newspaper author and scholar
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 00:39, 24 October 2017: 2,912 × 3,917 (4.74 MB): WikiPedant: removed extra background from top portion of image
Author and political historian, Douglas Brinkley, in a New York Times book review called the book "revisionist" as it shows incidents of violence not previously covered in histories of the Texas Rangers. [1] Brinkley wrote that the author "portrays the 19th-century Rangers as a paramilitary squad, proudly waving the banner of white supremacy."
In Douglas Brinkley's book Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War, Brinkley notes that Purple Hearts were given out frequently: As generally understood, the Purple Heart is given to any U.S. citizen wounded in wartime service to the nation. Giving out Purple Hearts increased as the United States started sending Swifts up rivers.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate; Pages for logged out editors learn more