Code: SL41502
Dates: September 30, 2021
Meets: 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM
Sessions: 1
Location: ONLINE
Course Fee: $39.00
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David Nasaw
Professor David Nasaw is the Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of History Emeritus at the CUNY Graduate Center and a past president of the Society of American Historians. He received his Ph.D. degree in history from Columbia University. The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War was published by Penguin Press in September, 2020. His previous work, The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy, was chosen by the New York Times as one of the Five Best Non-Fiction Books of the Year and was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Biography. David Nasaw is also the author of Andrew Carnegie, a Pulitzer Prize Finalist, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and the winner of the New-York Historical Society’s American History Book Prize; The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst which was awarded the Bancroft Prize for History, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for Non-Fiction, the Ambassador Book Prize for Biography, and the Sperber Prize for Biography, Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements and Children of the City: At Work and At Play, which was the source for Newsies, the film and musical.