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TITLE: Douglas Brinkley: 2009 National Book Festival
SPEAKER: Douglas Brinkley
EVENT DATE: 09/26/2009
RUNNING TIME: 33 minutes
DESCRIPTION:
Professor and author Douglas Brinkley appears at the National Book Festival.
Speaker Biography: Douglas Brinkley is a professor of history at Rice University and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. The Chicago Tribune has dubbed him "America's new past master." Six of his books have been selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year. His "The Great Deluge" won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. Brinkley's latest book is "The Wilderness Warrior," which focuses on the environmental achievements of Theodore Roosevelt. He also wrote the foreword to David A. Taylor's "Soul of a People: The WPA Writers' Project Uncovers Depression America" (2009). Brinkley lives in Texas.
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SERIES: National Book Festival 2009