David Greenberg, a historian of American politics, teaches at Rutgers University. His latest book is Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency (2016).Moshik Temkin is associate professor of history and public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the author of The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial (2011).Mason B. Williams is assistant professor of leadership studies and political science at Williams College and the author of City of Ambition: FDR, La Guardia, and the Making of Modern New York (2013).

• AcknowledgmentsForeword: A Career in Full, by Eric FonerPart I. A Historian’s Work1. A Personal History, by Elly Brinkley2. The “Dissident Ideology” Revisited: Populism and Prescience in Voices of Protest, by Moshik Temkin3. The End of Reform: A Reconsideration, by Mason B. Williams4. After Reform: The Odyssey of American Liberalism in Liberalism and Its Discontents, by David Greenberg5. Objectivity and Its Discontents: Reflections on The Publisher, by Nicole Hemmer6. The Liberal’s Imagination: “The Problem of American Conservatism” Then and Now, by Jefferson Decker7. Alan Brinkley and the Revival of Political History, by Matthew Dallek8. Houdini, Hip-Hop, and Dystopian Literature: Alan Brinkley’s Patterns of Culture, by Sharon Ann Musher9. The View from the Classroom, by Michael W. Flamm10. A Historian and His Publics, by Nicholas LemannPart II. Reminiscences11. The Lost Masterpiece, by A. Scott Berg12. The Skinny One with Glasses and Receding Hairline, by Nancy Weiss Malkiel13. Lord Root-of-the-Matter, by Jonathan Alter14. Careers in Counterpoint, by Lizabeth Cohen15. History as a Humanizing Art, by Ira Katznelson16. Two Kids from Chevy Chase, by Frank RichAppendix: Transcript of C-SPAN’s Booknotes: An Interview Between Host Brian Lamb and Alan Brinkley, August 31, 1993NotesContributorsIndex

A marvelous and moving tribute to a historian who changed our understanding of political history and of the twentieth century. The book is testimony to the way he touched so many minds and hearts.