David Scott Brown (born 29 September, 1966) is a Horace E. Raffensperger professor of history at

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, United States. He is the author of several books, including biographies of

Richard Hofstadter Richard Hofstadter (August 6, 1916October 24, 1970) was an American historian and public intellectual of the mid-20th century. Hofstadter was the DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University. Rejecting his earlier historic ...

and

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Education and career

Brown was born on 29 September, 1966 in

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. He graduated from Wright State University in 1990 and earned a master's degree from the

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in 1992. He completed his Ph.D. in 1995 at the

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. Brown joined Elizabethtown College in 1997, after previously teaching at the University of Toledo,

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. He was named Raffensperger Professor in 2012.

Books

In 2006, he published ''Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography''. The book explores the life and times of

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historian

. His 2009 book ''Beyond the Frontier: The Midwestern Voice in American Historical Writing'' (also from the University of Chicago Press) is a study of Midwestern historians and their influence on the American historical profession. He is also the author of ''Thomas Jefferson: A Biographical Companion'' (ABC-Clio, 1998); ''Moderates: The Vital Center of American Politics, from the Founding to Today'' (University of North Carolina Press, 2016); and ''Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald'' (Harvard University Press, 2017).

References

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