David S. Brown

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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.

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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).

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Elizabethtown College announces appointment of David S. Brown to Raffensperger Professor of History, Elizabethtown College, August 31, 2012 – via readMedia
  2. ↑ History faculty, Elizabethtown College, retrieved 2019-07-14
  3. 1 2 3 "Brown, David S. 1966–", Gale Contemporary Authors, retrieved 2019-07-14
  4. ↑ Reviews of Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography:
  5. ↑ Reviews of Beyond the Frontier: The Midwestern Voice in American Historical Writing:
  6. ↑ Reviews of Moderates: The Vital Center of American Politics:
  7. ↑ Reviews of Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald:


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