David Nasaw

David Nasaw

David Nasaw is an author and a professor of American History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he is also chairman of the Center for the Humanities. He received his PhD from Columbia University. He is the father of Washington-based BBC journalist Daniel Nasaw.

He is currently at work on a biography of Joseph Kennedy.[1]

Awards

Books

  • Andrew Carnegie (Penguin Press, 2006).
  • The Chief: Life and Times of William Randolph Hearst (Houghton Mifflin, 2000).
  • Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements (Basic Books, 1993).
  • Children of the City: At Work and at Play (Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1985; Oxford University Press, 1986).
  • Schooled to Order: A Social History of Public Schooling in United States (Oxford University Press, 1979, 1980).

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