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 graduated from Dwight-Englewood School in 1966 and received the school's Distinguished Alumni Award in 2006.[2] He received a B.A. in Social Studies from Harvard, an M.A. in History from Portland State University, and a Ph.D. in History from Stanford. As a Harvard student he was a leader in Students for a Democratic Society and briefly a member of the Weatherman faction.[3]
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).[1]
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 book War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918 was published by Simon and Schuster on November 1, 2016.
Kazin is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.[5]
Personal life
Kazin married physician Beth C. Horowitz in 1980. They have two children.
Notes
- 1 2 "Faculty". Explore.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
- ↑ Distinguished Alumni Award, Dwight-Englewood School. Accessed June 14, 2018.
- ↑ Rebecca E. Klatch, A Generation Divided: The New Left, the New Right, and the 1960s, University of California Press, 1999, p. 210.
- ↑ "The People's Historian?". Reason.com. 3 February 2010. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
- ↑ Stein, Jeff (August 5, 2017). "9 questions about the Democratic Socialists of America you were too embarrassed to ask". Vox. Retrieved September 21, 2018.
References
- Michael Kazin, The Populist Persuasion: An American History, Cornell University Press, 1998, p. 222–224.
