Douglas Brinkley
Douglas Brinkley
Douglas Brinkleyis an American author, professor of history at Rice University and a fellow at the James Baker Institute for Public Policy. Brinkley is the history commentator for CNN News and a contributing editor to the magazines Vanity Fair and American Heritage. A public spokesperson on conservation issues, Brinkley serves as an editor at Audubon Magazine. He joined the faculty of Rice University as a professor of history in 2007...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTeacher
Date of Birth14 December 1960
CountryUnited States of America
It's too little too late. He's still going to get the blame.
Overcoming an illness can be a badge of honor.
Knievel seemed braver and more brazen - and more unhinged - than any other athlete-cum-thrill-seeker of his era.
John Kerry only went to prep schools because he had an aunt who had the money to pay for his way into those prep schools.
John Kerry had his back against the wall, and in January turned his campaign completely around.
John Kerry had a very vivid imagination as a young person. I mean, he actually did go and take his bicycle from Norway to go camp in Sherwood Forest to be around the ghost of Robin Hood.
When terrorists blew up the Marine barracks in Lebanon, Reagan was frustrated and furious, as Bush was after 9/11. But he didn't stick us in a war in the Middle East with no exit.
You live your life as a biography and you have chapters and how you handle yourself in time of adversity and crises defines you.
My wife and kids were born in New Orleans,
The answer to New Orleans's levee woes is painfully obvious: money and willpower.
I witnessed him rescuing up to 40 people. He was up to his waist in toxic muck.
I think President Bush had a very hard 2005. But he turned a corner on December 15, I believe, in Iraq with the elections there. And he seems to have kind of picked up an offensive spirit again.
The D-Day moniker wasn't invented for the Allied invasion. The same name had been attached to the date of every planned offensive of World War II. It was first coined during World War I, at the U.S. attack at the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, in France in 1918.
Do we pour $40 billion into grandiose Louisiana engineering projects or do we instead put up no trespassing- signs in the areas below sea level? All are hard choices with various merits and pains. The important thing, however, is for America to decide whether the current policy of inaction is really the way we want to deal with the worst natural disaster in our history.