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David Scott Brown (born 29 September, 1966) is a Horace E. Raffensperger professor of history at Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania, United States. 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. 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.

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.

Books

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

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.

He is also the author of Thomas Jefferson: A Biographical Companion (ABC-Clio, 1998); Moderates: The Vital Center of American Politics, from the Founding to Today (University of North Carolina Press, 2016); Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Harvard University Press, 2017); 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).

References

1. ^ Elizabethtown College announces appointment of David S. Brown to Raffensperger Professor of History, Elizabethtown College, August 31, 2012 – via readMedia
2. History faculty, Elizabethtown College, retrieved 2019-07-14
3. ^ "Brown, David S. 1966–", Gale Contemporary Authors, retrieved 2019-07-14
4. Reviews of Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography:
   • "Nonfiction book review", Publishers Weekly
   • Kirsch, Adam (April 12, 2006), "He Defined Postwar Liberalism", New York Sun
   • McClay, Wilfred M. (May 13, 2006), "Writer's Block", Wall Street Journal
   • Greenberg, David (June 7, 2006), "Richard Hofstadter: The pundits' favorite historian", Slate
   • Romano, Carlin (June 30, 2006), "Get Me Revision! Remembering Richard Hofstadter", The Chronicle of Higher Education
   • Wilentz, Sean (July 10, 2006), "What Was Liberal History?", The New Republic, pp. 21–27
   • Tanenhaus, Sam (August 6, 2006), "The Education of Richard Hofstadter", The New York Times
   • Lakoff, Sanford (Summer 2006), "Champion of Liberalism", The Wilson Quarterly, 30 (3): 104–105, JSTOR 40261403
   • Kuklick, Bruce (Fall 2006), Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, 42 (4): 574–577, JSTOR 40321350{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Dionne, E. J. (August 23, 2006), "Richard Hofstadter: liberalism's debate with itself", Washington Post – via Seattle Times
   • Neuchterlein, James A. (November 2006), "Review", Commentary
   • Smith, John David (January 2007), The North Carolina Historical Review, 84 (1): 121–122, JSTOR 23523307{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Guelzo, Allen C. (January–February 2007), "History with a Smirk", Books & Culture
   • Morantz-Sanchez, Regina (Spring 2007), American Studies, 48 (1): 167–169, JSTOR 40644033{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Jumonville, Neil (June 2007), The Journal of American History, 94 (1): 338–339, doi:10.2307/25094920, JSTOR 25094920{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Geary, Daniel (September 2007), "Richard Hofstadter Reconsidered", Reviews in American History, 35 (3): 425–431, doi:10.1353/rah.2007.0052, JSTOR 30031626, S2CID 145240475
   • Kloppenberg, James T. (October 2007), The American Historical Review, 112 (4): 1125–1127, doi:10.1086/ahr.112.4.1125, JSTOR 4000844{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Knee, Stuart E. (Fall 2007), The Historian, 69 (3): 524–525, doi:10.1111/j.1540-6563.2007.00189_10.x, JSTOR 24453839, S2CID 145454631{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Vandome, Robin (December 2007), Journal of American Studies, 41 (3): 695, doi:10.1017/S0021875807004185, JSTOR 27558068{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Minus, Ed (Winter 2007), "Making History", The Sewanee Review, 115 (1): 21–23, doi:10.1353/sew.2007.0017, JSTOR 40211524, S2CID 201789888
   • Burke, Albie (May 2008), The History Teacher, 41 (3): 405–407, doi:10.2307/30036920, JSTOR 30036920{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Smant, Kevin J. (Winter 2008), "American Critic", The Review of Politics, 70 (1): 139–141, doi:10.1017/S0034670508000259, JSTOR 20452972
   • Helicher, Karl (August 18, 2009), "Review" (PDF), Foreword Reviews
   • Michaels, D. (June 3, 2013), "History Lesson", Jewish Exponent
5. Reviews of Beyond the Frontier: The Midwestern Voice in American Historical Writing:
   • Cooper, John Milton (January 18, 2010), "Madison Rules: The astonishing influence of one Midwestern history department", The Weekly Standard, vol. 15, no. 17, archived from the original on January 7, 2012
   • Reid, Robert L. (March 2010), The Journal of American History, 96 (4): 1146, doi:10.1093/jahist/96.4.1146, JSTOR 40661838{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Nugent, Walter (May 2010), Pacific Historical Review, 79 (2): 292–293, doi:10.1525/phr.2010.79.2.292, JSTOR 10.1525/phr.2010.79.2.292{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Miller, John E. (Fall 2010), Agricultural History, 84 (4): 548–549, JSTOR 27869025{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Erekson, Keith A. (Spring 2011), "Review", Ohio Valley History, 11 (1): 92–93
   • Cayton, Andrew (April 2013), The American Historical Review, 118 (2): 476, doi:10.1093/ahr/118.2.476, JSTOR 23425898{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
6. Reviews of Moderates: The Vital Center of American Politics:
   • "Nonfiction book review", Publishers Weekly
   • "The moderate tradition in American politics", Kirkus Reviews, October 2016
   • Seal, Andrew (January 22, 2017), "The Neglected Middle of U.S. Politics", The Chronicle of Higher Education
   • Akst, Daniel (April 2, 2017), "In Praise of the Fence Sitters", The Wall Street Journal
   • Schlozman, Daniel (September 8, 2017), "In Equilibrio: Is the politics of moderation really the best way to avoid tyranny?", The Nation
   • Donaldson, Gary (December 2017), The American Historical Review, 122 (5): 1611–1612, doi:10.1093/ahr/122.5.1611{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Draper, Alan (2018), Journal of Southern History, 84 (1): 147–148, doi:10.1353/soh.2018.0009, S2CID 165510110{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Johnson, Matthew (June 2018), Journal of American History, 105 (1): 135, doi:10.1093/jahist/jay023{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
7. Reviews of Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald:
   • "Nonfiction book review", Publishers Weekly
   • Donaldson, Scott (2017), The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, 15 (1): 200–203, doi:10.5325/fscotfitzrevi.15.1.0200, JSTOR 10.5325/fscotfitzrevi.15.1.0200{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • "A fresh biography of the great American writer", Kirkus Reviews, March 2017
   • Parini, Jay (May 2017), "Tender is the Writer", Literary Review
   • Alexander, Paul (May 18, 2017), "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Our nation's most poetic interpreter", Washington Post
   • McEwen, Todd (May 18, 2017), "Review", The Herald
   • Morris, James McGrath (May 18, 2017), "Does F. Scott Fitzgerald still matter? A new biography makes the case", Dallas News
   • Carey, John (May 21, 2017), "Review", The Sunday Times
   • Rovie, Eric (June 20, 2017), "Review", PopMatters
   • Daniel, Anne Margaret (June 24, 2017), "F. Scott Fitzgerald: haunted by nostalgia", The Spectator
   • Altschuler, Glenn C. (July 2, 2017), "David Brown's biography, 'Paradise Lost', is detailed account of F. Scott Fitzgerald's life and work" (PDF), Tulsa World
   • Mahony, Christina Hunt (July 22, 2017), "Behind the poster boy", The Irish Times
   • Rubin, Martin (August 7, 2017), "A famed novelist and his fatal hubris", Washington Times
   • Short, Edward (October 6, 2017), "F. Scott Fitzgerald, Socialist Version: A revisionist biography fails to convince in its portrait of the American novelist as a serious critic of market capitalism", City Journal
   • Banville, John (November 9, 2017), "Tender Is the Fall", The New York Review of Books
   • St. Thomas, Mike (January 4, 2018), "Borne Back Into the Past", Bunk
   • Harvey, Alex (July 5, 2018), "He had it all", London Review of Books, 40 (13): 32–34
   • Baresel, James (August 2, 2018), "Review", Southern Literary Review
   • Altman, James (September 2018), The Journal of American Culture, 41 (3): 337–338, doi:10.1111/jacc.12951{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)

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