David S. Brown

Template:Short description David Scott Brown (born 29 September, 1966) is a Horace E. Raffensperger professor of history at Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania, United States.Template:R/superscriptTemplate:R/superscript He is the author of several books, including biographies of Richard Hofstadter and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Education and career

Brown was born on 29 September, 1966 in Troy, Ohio.Template:R/superscript He graduated from Wright State University in 1990 and earned a master's degree from the University of Akron in 1992. He completed his Ph.D. in 1995 at the University of Toledo.Template:R/superscriptTemplate:R/superscript

Brown joined Elizabethtown College in 1997, after previously teaching at the University of Toledo, Washtenaw Community College, and Saginaw Valley State University. He was named Raffensperger Professor in 2012.Template:R/superscript

Books

In 2006, he published Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography. The book explores the life and times of Columbia University historian Richard Hofstadter.Template:R/superscript

His 2009 book Beyond the Frontier: The Midwestern Voice in American Historical Writing (also from the University of Chicago Press) is a study of Midwestern historians and their influence on the American historical profession.Template:R/superscript

He is also the author of Thomas Jefferson: A Biographical Companion (ABC-Clio, 1998);Template:R/superscript Moderates: The Vital Center of American Politics, from the Founding to Today (University of North Carolina Press, 2016);Template:R/superscript Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Harvard University Press, 2017);Template:R/superscript The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams (Scribner, 2020); and The First Populist: The Defiant Life of Andrew Jackson (Scribner, 2022).