Douglas Brinkley

Known for ActingBorn 1960-12-14 (age 65)Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Douglas Brinkley (born December 14, 1960) is an American author, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities, and professor of history at Rice University. Brinkley is a history commentator for CNN, Presidential Historian for the New York Historical Society, and a contributing editor to the magazine Vanity Fair. He is a public spokesperson on conservation issues. He joined the faculty of Rice University as a professor of history in 2007. Brinkley joined the board of directors for the National Archives Foundation in 2023.Read more

Movies & web series

Public Trust

The Obama Years: The Power of Words

Henry Ford

Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry

Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride

Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James Booker

The Nineties

The Colbert Report

Race

CBS News Sunday Morning

Rather

Stewart Udall: The Politics of Beauty

Fandango at the Wall

Reagan: From Movie Star to President

Theodore Roosevelt a Cowboys Ride to the White House

Soul of a People: Writing America's Story

Untitled Walter Cronkite Biopic