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David S. Brown

David S. Brown, history professor and author of The First Populist

  • About David Brown
  • Books
    • In The Arena
    • A Hell of a Storm
    • The First Populist
    • The Last American Aristocrat
    • Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald
    • Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography
  • Other Works
  • Contact
  • In The Arena

Other Works

Other Works by David S. Brown

Essays and Excerpts


  • “Andrew Jackson”
    The Princeton History of American Political Thought (Princeton University Press)
  • “Andrew Jackson: Our First Populist?”
    Cover article for American Heritage, November 2022
Henry Adams with his dog Marquis
Henry Adams with his dog Marquis, c. 1883. Photograph by Marian Hooper Adams. Wikimedia Commons, Massachusetts Historical Society.

Interviews, Podcasts, and Appearances Featuring David S. Brown


  • Discussion of A Hell of a Storm
    The Equal Rights Heritage Center, Auburn, NY, 15 May 2025
  • Discussion of A Hell of a Storm
    Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, 17 September 2024
    Aired on C-Span 2 on 30 November 2024
  • Interview on Andrew Jackson and American populism
    The French Quarterly L’Echappée Libre (The Breakaway), 20 November 2023
  • Discussion of The First Populist
    The Union League of Philadelphia, 14 March 2023
  • Discussion with Stacy Schiff, author of The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
    The Miami Book Fair, 20 November 2022
  • Discussion of The First Populist
    The U.S. National Archives, 19 October 2022
  • Interviewed by Brian Lamb on Andrew Jackson for Booknotes +
    C-SPAN, 8 June 2022
  • Discussion of “Andrew Jackson and the American Populist Tradition”
    Philadelphia Club, 7 July 2022

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