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.