David S. Brown

David Scott Brown (born September 29, 1966) is 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 September 29, 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] and Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Harvard University Press, 2017).[7]

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References

  1. 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. "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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