Eric Rauchway (born 1969 or 1970) is an American historian and professor at the
University of California, Davis
The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institut ...
. He received his B.A. from Cornell in 1991, and his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1996. Rauchway's scholarship focuses on modern US political, social and economic history, particularly the
Progressive Era
The Progressive Era (late 1890s – late 1910s) was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States focused on defeating corruption, monopoly, waste and inefficiency. The main themes ended during Am ...
and the
New Deal
The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1939. Major federal programs agencies included the Civilian Cons ...
.
Personal life
Rauchway is married to historian Kathryn Olmstead, who also teaches at UC Davis. He was previously married to Meg Arnold, with whom he has two children.
Works
He is best known for his 2008 book, ''The Great Depression and the New Deal'', and for his associated commentary on Franklin Roosevelt's economic policies, which emphasized the effectiveness of the New Deal as a program of economic recovery and redistribution of political power. ''The Great Depression and the New Deal'' was recommended on NPR's ''All Things Considered'' as one of three books to read to understand the Great Recession and featured on C-SPAN Classroom.
Academic books
* ''The Refuge of Affections: Family and American Reform Politics 1900-1920'' (
Columbia University Press
Columbia University Press is a university press based in New York City, and affiliated with Columbia University. It is currently directed by Jennifer Crewe (2014–present) and publishes titles in the humanities and sciences, including the fiel ...
, 2001) Reviewed in several sources:
* ''Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America'' (
Hill and Wang
Hill & Wang is an American book publishing company focused on American history, world history, and politics. It is a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Hill & Wang was founded as an independent publishing house in 1956 by Arthur Wang (1917/1 ...
, 2003), It was widely reviewed in both academic and non academic publications .
* ''Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America'' (
Hill and Wang
Hill & Wang is an American book publishing company focused on American history, world history, and politics. It is a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Hill & Wang was founded as an independent publishing house in 1956 by Arthur Wang (1917/1 ...
, 2006) It had several reviews.
* ''The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction'' (
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print books ...
, 2008)
* ''The Money Makers: How Roosevelt and Keynes Ended the Depression, Defeated Fascism, and Secured a Prosperous Peace'' (
Basic Books
Basic Books is a book publisher founded in 1950 and located in New York, now an imprint of Hachette Book Group. It publishes books in the fields of psychology, philosophy, economics, science, politics, sociology, current affairs, and history.
H ...
, 2015)
* ''Winter War: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash Over the New Deal'' (
Basic Books
Basic Books is a book publisher founded in 1950 and located in New York, now an imprint of Hachette Book Group. It publishes books in the fields of psychology, philosophy, economics, science, politics, sociology, current affairs, and history.
H ...
, 2018)
Other writing
Rauchway is also the author of a novel, ''Banana Republican'', which continues the story of Tom Buchanan, the primary antagonist in F. Scott Fitzgerald's ''
The Great Gatsby
''The Great Gatsby'' is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts First-person narrative, first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious mil ...
''. It was reviewed in ''The New York Times Book Review'' ''Library Journal'' and ''Publishers Weekly'' and other publications
He contributes to
The Chronicle of Higher Education
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's group blog Edge of the American West and also the academic blog
Crooked Timber
Crooked Timber is a left-of-centre political blog run by a group of (mostly) academics from and working in several different nations, including the United States, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Australia and Singapore. The name all ...
. After the January 6, 2021 Capitol Riot, Rauchway along with over 300 other historians signed an open letter calling for a second impeachment of outgoing President Donald Trump. According to Rauchway, "There has even been white supremacist violence relating to elections throughout American history, so I don’t want to say that none of that has happened before. But, I feel this is an important distinction to make for the president himself to incite a white supremacist mob to attack the Capitol with the express purpose of disrupting the election that he lost."
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21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century American novelists
American male non-fiction writers
Cornell University alumni
Historians of the United States
Living people
Novelists from California
Place of birth missing (living people)
Stanford University alumni
University of California, Davis faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)