David Nasaw
Guest Speaker
Professional affiliation
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Distinguished Professor of History, CUNY Graduate Center
Full Biography
David Nasaw was, until January, 2020, the Arthur M. Schlesinger Professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center. His publications include The Chief (2000), the Bancroft Prize-winning biography of William Randolph Hearst; Andrew Carnegie (2006), a Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the New-York Historical Society Prize in American History; and, most recently, The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy (2012), a Pulitzer Prize finalist and chosen by the New York Times as one of the best five non-fiction books of the year.