
Douglas Brinkley
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.
17 acting credits
Acting · 17

The Colbert Report
2005

CBS News Sunday Morning
1979

Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
2018

The Nineties
2017

Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
2006

The Obama Years: The Power of Words
2017

Rather
2023

Public Trust
2020

Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James Booker
2013

Reagan: From Movie Star to President
2016

Soul of a People: Writing America's Story
2009

Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry
2004

Henry Ford
2013

Fandango at the Wall
2020

Race
2010
Stewart Udall: The Politics of Beauty
2022

Theodore Roosevelt a Cowboys Ride to the White House
2010