David S. Brown

For others of a similar name, see David Brown.

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] The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams (Scribner, 2020); The First Populist: The Defiant Life of Andrew Jackson (Scribner, 2022) and In the Arena: Theodore Roosevelt in War, Peace, and Revolution (Scribner, 2025).

References

1. Elizabethtown College announces appointment of David S. Brown to Raffensperger Professor of History, Elizabethtown College, August 31, 2012 – via readMedia
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   • Wilentz, Sean (July 10, 2006), "What Was Liberal History?", The New Republic, pp. 21–27
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   • 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
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   • Neuchterlein, James A. (November 2006), "Review", Commentary
   • Smith, John David (January 2007), The North Carolina Historical Review, 84 (1): 121–122, JSTOR   23523307
   • Guelzo, Allen C. (January–February 2007), "History with a Smirk", Books & Culture
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   • 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
   • Vandome, Robin (December 2007), Journal of American Studies, 41 (3): 695, doi:10.1017/S0021875807004185, JSTOR   27558068
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   • Burke, Albie (May 2008), The History Teacher, 41 (3): 405–407, doi: 10.2307/30036920 , JSTOR   30036920
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5. 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
   • 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
   • Miller, John E. (Fall 2010), Agricultural History, 84 (4): 548–549, doi:10.1215/00021482-84.4.548, JSTOR   27869025
   • 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
6. 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, archived from the original on July 14, 2019, retrieved July 14, 2019
   • Donaldson, Gary (December 2017), The American Historical Review, 122 (5): 1611–1612, doi: 10.1093/ahr/122.5.1611
   • Draper, Alan (2018), Journal of Southern History, 84 (1): 147–148, doi:10.1353/soh.2018.0009, S2CID   165510110
   • Johnson, Matthew (June 2018), Journal of American History, 105 (1): 135, doi:10.1093/jahist/jay023
7. 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
   • "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