Douglas Brinkley

Due to unforeseen circumstances, tonight's Douglas Brinkley
in Conversation event has been postponed. 

Please keep your ticket as a new date will be announced soon. Tickets for the original event will be honored for the new date.

We apologize for any inconvenience. If you have any questions, please contact the Tantleff Box Office, Monday-Friday, 1-6 pm at 516.299.3100.

Speaker Series sponsored by Eileen and Jon Otto.

Presented in collaboration with LIU's Roosevelt School.

Please note that this event has been moved to the Goldsmith Atrium. If you already have purchased tickets, please hold onto them, as they will be valid for entry to the Atrium, and you will be seated in a comparable seat location. Seating for future purchases will be General Admission. To access the Goldsmith Atrium, please enter through Tilles Center’s main entrance.

Douglas Brinkley, American Historian and Best-Selling Author; Presidential Historian, CNN; Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University, offers his perspective and insight, post-2024 Presidential Election. The conversation will be moderated by Tweed Roosevelt, chair of the Roosevelt Institute and great-grandson of Theodore Roosevelt. 

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About Douglas Brinkley
Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University and is on the Board of the National Archives Foundation, The Library of Congress (James Madison Council), and the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. Additionally, he is the CNN Presidential Historian and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. He works in many capacities in public history, including museums, colleges, and historical societies. The Chicago Tribune dubbed him "America's New Past Master." The New-York Historical Society has chosen Brinkley as their official U.S. Presidential Historian.
In 2022, he published Silent Spring Revolution, which chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties and tells the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon. Doris Kearns Goodwin praised it as "not only a majestic work of history; it is an urgent call for our time."
Brinkley's other books include American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race, a New York Times bestseller, Cronkite, which won the Sperber Prize, and The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, which received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He has received a Grammy Award for Presidential Suite and seven honorary doctorates in American Studies. His two-volume annotated The Nixon Tapes won the Arthur S. Link – Warren F. Kuehl Prize.

Brinkley is a board member of the National Archives Foundation, a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, and the James Madison Council of the Library of Congress. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and three children.