David Greenberg (historian) Last updated April 16, 2025 US history books Greenberg’s Ph.D. thesis won Columbia University ’s 2001 Bancroft Dissertation Award [ 2] and became his first book, Nixon ’s Shadow (2003),which won the Washington Monthly Annual Political Book Award and the American Journalism Historians Association's Book Award . Calvin Coolidge (2006),a biography in Henry Holt's American Presidents Series ,appeared on the Washington Post ’s list of best books of 2007. Presidential Doodles (2006) was widely reviewed and featured on CNN ,NPR 's All Things Considered ,and CBS ’s Sunday Morning Republic of Spin (2016) examines the rise of the White House spin machine,from the Progressive Era to the present day,and the debates that Americans have waged over its implications for democracy . His most recent book,Alan Brinkley (2019),is about the political historian .
As of September 2022,he is writing a biography of Rep. John Lewis ,the civil rights leader. [ 3]
Journalism Formerly a full-time journalist ,Greenberg is now a contributing editor to Politico Magazine ,where he writes a regular column. He previously served as managing editor and acting editor of The New Republic ,where he was a contributing editor until 2014. Early in his career,he was the assistant to author Bob Woodward on The Agenda:Inside the Clinton White House (Simon &Schuster ,1994). He has also been a regular contributor to Slate since its founding and has written for The New Yorker ,The Atlantic ,The Washington Post ,The New York Times ,Foreign Affairs ,Daedalus ,Dissent ,Raritan ,and many other scholarly and popular publications.
Bibliography Nixon's Shadow:The History of an Image (W.W. Norton ,2003) ISBN 9780393048964 , 9780393326161 , 9780393285277 Calvin Coolidge (Henry Holt / Times Books , 2006) ISBN 9780805069570 Presidential Doodles: Two Centuries of Scribbles, Scratches, Squiggles, and Scrawls from the Oval Office squiggles & scrawls from the Oval Office (Basic Books , 2006) ISBN 9780465032662 , 9780465032679 , 9780465003624 Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency (W.W. Norton , 2016) ISBN 9780393067064 , 9780393353648 , 9780393285505 , 9781531874315 Alan Brinkley: A Life in History (Columbia University Press , 2019) ISBN 9780231187244 , 9780231547161 John Lewis: A Life (Simon & Schuster , 2024) ISBN 978-1982142995 , 978-1982143015 This page is based on this
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