Douglas Brinkley

Acting · Born 1960-12-14 · Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Biography

Douglas Brinkley (born December 14, 1960) is an American author, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities, 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. He is a public spokesperson on conservation issues. He joined the faculty of Rice University as a professor of history in 2007. Brinkley joined the board of directors for the National Archives Foundation in 2023.

Known for

• Disney Celebrates America: The Pursuit of Happiness (2026)
• Rather (2023)
• Stewart Udall: The Politics of Beauty (2022)
• Fandango at the Wall (2020)
• Public Trust (2020)
• The Obama Years: The Power of Words (2017)
• Reagan: From Movie Star to President (2016)
• Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James Booker (2013)
• Henry Ford (2013)
• Theodore Roosevelt a Cowboys Ride to the White House (2010)
• Race (2010)
• Soul of a People: Writing America's Story (2009)
• Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride (2006)
• Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry (2004)
• Firing Line with Margaret Hoover (2018)
• The Nineties (2017)
• The Colbert Report (2005)
• CBS News Sunday Morning (1979)