Person
Douglas Brinkley
Acting · Born 1960-12-14 · Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Biography
Douglas Brinkley (born December 14, 1960) is an American author, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities, and professor of history at Rice University. Brinkley is a history commentator for CNN, Presidential Historian for the New York Historical Society, and a contributing editor to the magazine Vanity Fair. He is a public spokesperson on conservation issues. He joined the faculty of Rice University as a professor of history in 2007. Brinkley joined the board of directors for the National Archives Foundation in 2023.
Known for
The Colbert Report
2005
CBS News Sunday Morning
Self
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
2018
The Nineties
2017
Public Trust
Self - Professor of History at Rice University
Disney Celebrates America: The Pursuit of Happiness
Self
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
Self
Fandango at the Wall
Self
Rather
Self - Historian & Author
Race
Himself
Filmography
- 2026Disney Celebrates America: The Pursuit of HappinessSelf
- 2023RatherSelf - Historian & Author
- 2022Stewart Udall: The Politics of BeautySelf
- 2020Fandango at the WallSelf
- 2020Public TrustSelf - Professor of History at Rice University
- 2018Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
- 2017The Nineties
- 2017The Obama Years: The Power of WordsSelf - Presidential Historian
- 2016Reagan: From Movie Star to PresidentHimself
- 2013Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James BookerSelf
- 2013Henry FordHimself
- 2010RaceHimself
- 2010Theodore Roosevelt a Cowboys Ride to the White HouseSelf
- 2009Soul of a People: Writing America's StorySelf
- 2006Buy the Ticket, Take the RideSelf
- 2005The Colbert Report
- 2004Going Upriver: The Long War of John KerrySelf
- 1979CBS News Sunday MorningSelf
- —Untitled Walter Cronkite BiopicBook
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