Alan Brinkley is the Allan Nevins Professor of American History at Columbia University. His books include Voices of Protest, which won the National Book Award for History, and The Unfinished Nation. His essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in the American Historical Review, the Journal of American History, the New York Times Book Review, the New York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, the New Republic, and other publications. He lives in New York City.
