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Film, Video Douglas Brinkley: 2009 National Book Festival

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Title

  • Douglas Brinkley: 2009 National Book Festival

Summary

  • Professor and author Douglas Brinkley appears at the National Book Festival.

Event Date

  • September 26, 2009

Notes

  • -  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.

Running Time

  • 33 minutes 32 seconds

Online Format

  • video
  • image

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