Professor Douglas Brinkley

CNN Presidential Historian, Best-selling author

Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University, a CNN Presidential Historian, and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. In the world of public history, he serves on boards, at museums, at colleges, and for historical societies.

The Chicago Tribune dubbed him "America's New Past Master." The New York Historical Society has chosen Brinkley as its official U.S. Presidential Historian. His recent book Cronkite won the Sperber Prize, while The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He was awarded a Grammy for Presidential Suite and is the recipient of seven honorary doctorates in American studies. His two-volume, annotate Nixon Tapes recently won the Arthur S. Link-Warren F. Kuehl Prize for Documentary Editing.

He is a member of the Century Association, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the James Madison Council of the Library of Congress. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and three children.

His most recent book is American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race.