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David Greenberg is a historian, teacher, and writer on political and cultural affairs. He is assistant professor of Journalism and Media Studies and History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. His first book, Nixon’s Shadow: The History of an Image (W.W. Norton, 2003) won the Washington Monthly Annual Political Book Award, the American Journalism History Award and Columbia University’s Bancroft Dissertation Award. He is currently at work on a biography of Calvin Coolidge for the American Presidents Series.
Prof. Greenberg has written for numerous scholarly and popular publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, Foreign Affairs, The Journal of American History, Reviews in American History, and Daedalus. He is a regular contributor to the online magazine Slate, where he writes the "History Lesson" column and other occasional reviews and essays. Before pursuing his PhD, he served as Acting Editor and Managing Editor of The New Republic magazine and, early in his career, as the assistant to author Bob Woodward, on The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House (Simon & Schuster, 1994). Prof. Greenberg holds a BA in History from Yale University (Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude, 1990) and a PhD in History from Columbia University (2001).
He lives in Manhattan with his wife, Suzanne Nossel, and their children, Leo and Liza.
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Recently Published
“The Goal: Admitting Failure, Without Being a Failure,” The New York Times, January 14, 2007.
“ Nothing Perks Up a President Like Death ,” Los Angeles Times, January 14, 2007.
“A Very Ecumenical Christmas: Why Conservatives Despise the Phrase Happy Holidays,” Slate, December 15, 2006.
“At Least He’s Not Nixon,” Washington Post, December 3, 2006.
“ It’s a Reprieve, Not a Pardon,” Washington Monthly, December 2006.
Review of The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation, by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff, American Prospect, December 2006.
“Doodle Bug,” Times of London, November 19. 2006.
“The Myth of the Six-Year Itch: The Laws of History Didn't Doom the Republicans,” Slate, November 8, 2006.
“All the President’s Doodles: A History in Sketches,” The Atlantic Monthly, September 2006.
“Even Presidents Doodle,” Los Angeles Times, September 24, 2006.
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Talks and Appearances
November 30, 2006
“The Kojo Nnamdi Show,” WAMU Radio, Washington.
November 15, 2006
On Presidential Doodles. National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, PA .
November 14, 2006
“The Situation Room,” CNN.
November 11, 2006
“Whad’ya Know,” Wisconsin Public Radio .
November 5, 2006
“CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood,” CBS TV.
November 1, 2006
“Conversations with Kathleen Dunn,” NPR/Wisconsin Public Radio.
October 21 , 2006
“Judging the Judges: What makes a Justice a good Justice?” Boston College forum “Liberty, Justice and the U.S. Supreme Court,” Newton, MA.
October 19, 2006
On Presidential Doodles. Border’s Books. New York, NY.
October 16 , 2006
“ A Man of Many Masks: The Search for the Real Richard Nixon,” Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
October 11, 2006
On Presidential Doodles. Olsson’s Books, Washington, DC.
September 26 , 2006 “Nixon’s Nixon: Nixon in American Culture.” Talk and discussion of the play “Nixon’s Nixon,” Lucille Lortel Theater, New York, NY.
September 21 , 2006
“Presidential Doodles: Oval Office Artists,” Interview on “All Things Considered,” NPR.
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