Biography of Douglas Brinkley

He completed his bachelor's degree at Ohio State University and received his master's degree and doctorate in military and diplomatic history from Georgetown University. Four of his biographies - "Dean Acheson: The Cold War Years," (Yale University Press, 1992), "Driven Patriot: The Life and Times of James Forrestal," with Townsend Hoopes (Alfred Knopf, 1992), "The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter's Journey Beyond the White House" (Viking Press, 1998) and "Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company and a Century of Progress" (Viking Press, 2003) - were chosen as "Notable Books" by the New York Times.

Brinkley's recent publications include "Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War" (Harper Collins, 2004), "The Mississippi and the Making of a Nation" with Stephen E. Ambrose (National Geographic Society, 2002), "Rosa Parks" (Viking Press, 2000), "American Heritage History of the United States" (Viking Press, 1998) and "FDR and the Creation of the United Nations" with Townsend Hoopes (Yale University Press, 1997). Other books include "Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938" with Stephen E. Ambrose (Viking-Penguin, 1997), "The Majic Bus: An American Odyssey" (Harcourt Brace & Co., 1993, Anchor Doubleday, 1994), and edited works on Dean Acheson, Theodore Roosevelt, Jean Monnet and the Atlantic Charter. He has contributed to Newsweek, Time, American Heritage, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy and other journals.