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Books by Douglas Brinkley

Douglas Brinkley is a presidential historian and professor at Rice University who has written more than twenty books on American history and political life, including biographies of Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Rosa Parks, and Walter Cronkite, and histories of American environmentalism and the Great Society. He is a CNN presidential historian and a regular contributor to major publications. American Moonshot was published in 2019, the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, and drew on extensive archival research including previously classified NASA and White House documents.