H.W. Brands
H.W. Brands is a prolific American historian and author of over thirty books, holding the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin.
A Pulitzer Prize finalist for The First American and Traitor to His Class, he is celebrated for combining rigorous scholarship with accessible storytelling.
Originally trained in mathematics, he pursued history to satisfy his passion for writing.
His biographical works on Franklin, Jackson, Grant, and the Roosevelts have earned wide acclaim.
Brands is also a public intellectual who challenges conventional views of the Founding Fathers, advocating for a progressive, evolving understanding of American democracy.
