David Oshinsky
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| David M. Oshinsky | |
| Education | Cornell (1965) Brandeis University (1971) |
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| Occupation | Writer |
| Employers | Rutgers University University of Texas at Austin |
| Known for | Pulitzer Prize |
| Website David M. Oshinsky |
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David M. Oshinsky is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian, currently a member of the history department at the University of Texas at Austin. Oshinsky graduated from Cornell in 1965 and obtained his PhD from Brandeis University in 1971. He won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in History for his 2005 book, Polio: An American Story. His other books include the Hardeman Prize-winning A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy, and the Robert Kennedy Prize-winning Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice. His articles and reviews appear regularly in the New York Times, Washington Post, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.[1]
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[edit] Books
- Oshinsky, David M. (1976). Senator Joseph McCarthy and the American Labor Movement. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 0-8262-0188-1.
- Oshinsky, David M. (1983). A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy. New York: The Free Press. ISBN 0029234905.
- Oshinsky, David M.; Horn, Daniel; McCormic, Richard Patrick (1989). The Case of the Nazi Professor. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0813514274.
- Oshinsky, David M. (1997). Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow. Free Press. ISBN 0684830957.
- Ayers, Edward L.; Gould. Lewis L.; Oshinsky, David M.; Soderlund, Jean R. (1999). American Passages: A History of the American People, Volume I. Wadsworth Publishing Company. ISBN 0030725739.
- Ayers, Edward L.; Gould. Lewis L.; Oshinsky, David M.; Soderlund, Jean R. (1999). American Passages: A History of the American People, Volume II. Wadsworth Publishing Company. ISBN 0030725747.
- Oshinsky, David M. (2005). Polio: An American Story. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 0195152948.
- Oshinsky, David M. [1983] (2005). A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy. Oxford University Press. ISBN 019515424X.
[edit] Selected articles
- Oshinsky, David M.. "The Senior G-Man David M. Oshinsky is a professor of history at Rutgers University and the author of "A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy."", New York Times, September 15, 1991. Retrieved on 2008-04-16. "Shortly after his election victory in 1968, Richard Nixon made a most traditional move. Following the lead of every incoming President since Franklin D. Roosevelt, he ordered an adviser, John Ehrlichman, to establish immediate White House contact with the Federal Bureau of Investigation."
- Oshinsky, David M.. "Heil Woodrow!", New York Times, December 30, 2007. "Coming of age in the 1960s, I heard the word 'fascist' all the time. College presidents were fascists, Vietnam War supporters were fascists, policemen who tangled with protesters were fascists, on and on. ..."
- Oshinsky, David M.. "In the Heart of the Heart of Conspiracy", New York Times, January 27, 2008. "No American politician of the 20th century is more reviled by historians and opinion makers than Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, the Wisconsin Republican whose 1950s anti-Communist crusade is synonymous with witch-hunting and repression. ..."
[edit] References
- ^ David M. Oshinsky. University of Texas. Retrieved on 2008-05-29.
