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Alan Brinkley is the Allan Nevins Professor of American History at Columbia University. His previous books include Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression, which won the National Book Award for History, and The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People. 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.

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The End Of Reform
New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War
Written by Alan Brinkley

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 30, 1996
Price: $17.95

The End of Reform is both a trenchant analysis of the New Deal and an indispensable guide to today's political landscape.  Brinkley, professor of American History and Columbia University, shows how the liberalism of the early New Deal--which set out to repair and, if necessary, restructure America's economy--gave way to its contemporary... Read more >

The End Of Reform
New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War
Written by Alan Brinkley

Format: eBook, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 21, 2011
Price: $13.99

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The Publisher
Henry Luce and His American Century
Written by Alan Brinkley

Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 5, 2011
Price: $17.00

Pulitzer Prize Finalist

Acclaimed historian Alan Brinkley gives us a sharply realized portrait of Henry Luce, arguably the most important publisher of the twentieth century.

As the founder of Time, Fortune, and Life magazines, Luce changed the way we consume news and the way we understand our world. Born the son of missionaries... Read more >

The Publisher

Written by Alan Brinkley

Format: eBook, 560 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 20, 2010
Price: $13.99

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Voices of Protest
Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression
Written by Alan Brinkley

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 12, 1983
Price: $16.95

Winner of the 1983 American Book Award for History, this study of two demagogues--Huey Long and Father Coughlin-- whose vast popularity explains much about Depression-era America, is "impressively well-written history explicated by a master of the art."
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Voices of Protest
Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression
Written by Alan Brinkley

Format: eBook, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 10, 2011
Price: $12.99

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