David S. Brown

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

Other Works

Other Works by David S. Brown

Essays and Excerpts

  • “The ‘Race’ Question: Where Henry Adams Lacked Moral Insight”
    Literary Hub, November 25, 2020, Read the Article
  • “‘The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams’ By David S. Brown: An Excerpt”
    The New York Times, November 24, 2020, Read the Article
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 F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Head and Shoulders” and “The Cut-Glass Bowl”
    Appearance on a podcast presented by The Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum, (Montgomery, AL), October 8, 2021
  • Discussant on panel: “Scott and Zelda in The Own Time”
    The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society, July 7 2021
  • Discussion of “The Last American Aristocrat”
    The Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston MA, April 8, 2021
  • Participant: Tucson Book Festical 6 March 2021
    Discussion of Henry Adams, CSPAN, March 21, 2021
  • Interview: “El Ran Gatsby, El Libro que ya es de Dominio Público”
    (The Great Gatsby Belongs to Everybody)
    Interviewed by Alfonso Fernández for EFE New Services (Spanish International News Agency), February 17, 2021
  • Interview: Henry Adams for “The World In Time”
    Interviewed by Lewis Lapham (Lapham’s Quarterly), February 10, 2021