Michael Kazin
| Michael Kazin | |
|---|---|
| Born |
June 6, 1948 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
Harvard University (B.A.) Portland State University (M.A.) Stanford University (PhD) |
| Relatives | Alfred Kazin (father) |
Michael Kazin (born June 6, 1948) is an American historian and professor at Georgetown University. He is co-editor of Dissent magazine.[1]
Early life
Kazin was born in New York City in 1948 and grew up in Englewood, New Jersey. He is the son of literary critic Alfred Kazin. He received a B.A. in Social Studies from Harvard University, an M.A. in History from Portland State University, and a Ph.D. in History from Stanford University. As a Harvard student he was a leader in Students for a Democratic Society and briefly a member of the Weatherman faction.[2]
Career
Kazin's research interests are American social movements of the 19th and 20th centuries, and he has authored books on labor history (Barons of Labor: The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era); populism (The Populist Persuasion: An American History), and William Jennings Bryan, (A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan).[3]
Kazin wrote an unsympathetic review of Howard Zinn's 1980 book A People's History of the United States, with the comment: "Bad history, albeit gilded with virtuous intentions."[4]
His latest book American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation, was published by Knopf on August 23, 2011.
Personal life
Kazin married physician Beth C. Horowitz in 1980. They have two children.
Notes
- ↑ http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/mk8/
- ↑ Rebecca E. Klatch, A Generation Divided: The New Left, the New Right, and the 1960s, University of California Press, 1999, p. 210.
- ↑ http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/mk8/
- ↑ reason.com
References
- Michael Kazin, The Populist Persuasion: An American History, Cornell University Press, 1998, p. 222–224.