H W Brands

H. W. Brands is the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin. He writes about American history and politics, with books including Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Andrew Jackson, The Age of Gold, The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, and TR. Several of his books have been best sellers; Traitor to His Class and The First American were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Brands...See more

H. W. Brands is the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin. He writes about American history and politics, with books including Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Andrew Jackson, The Age of Gold, The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, and TR. Several of his books have been best sellers; Traitor to His Class and The First American were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Brands lectures frequently on historical and current events and appears on national and international television and radio programs. See less