Douglas Brinkley at the UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall

Douglas Brinkley, the nation's foremost living historian, will be speaking at UCSC about his most recent book “The Quiet World: Saving Alaska’s Wilderness Kingdom" in the first of the 2011 What's Next Lecture Series.  

Brinkley's previous books include, "The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America” (2009) and the New York Times bestseller "The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast” (2006), which was the recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy prize and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Times Book Review and American Heritage, as well as a frequent contributor to The New York Times, The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly. A professor at Rice University, Brinkley previously served as professor of history and director of the Theodore Roosevelt Center for American Civilization at Tulane University. From 1994 to 2005 he was the Stephen E. Ambrose Professor of History and director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies at the University of New Orleans. While a professor at Hofstra University, Brinkley spearheaded the American Odyssey course, in which he took students on cross-country treks on which they visited historic sites and met seminal figures in politics and literature.

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Purchase any of Douglas Brinkley's books from Bookshop Santa Cruz before January 28, 2010 and receive an additional discount on tickets!