
As a noted presidential scholar, Pietrusza has been
selected to serve on the Siena College Research
Institute (SRI) Survey of United States Presidents.
Along with such historians as David McCullough,
Douglas Brinkley, Paul Johnson, William
Leuchtenberg, Ted Morgan, Thomas Fleming,
Joseph Persico, and Harold Holzer C-SPAN
Classroom has selected Mr. Pietrusza for inclusion
in its online "C-SPAN Classroom" initiative of free
primary source materials for social studies teachers.
His books have been utilized as texts at colleges
such as George Washington University, the City
University of New York, the University at Buffalo,
Baylor University, Bellevue College, the University
of Illinois, and the University of San Francisco.
"1920" has been part of the syllabus for the course
"Congress, The Presidency & 21st Century Media"
offered by C-SPAN, The Cable Center and the
University of Denver. His talk on "Silent Cal's
Almanack" is included in the curriculum for the
C-SPAN Classroom initiative.
Pietrusza has served as editor-in-chief of Total
Sports Publishing and as National President of the
Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) as
well as on the Board of Trustees of the Calvin
Coolidge Memorial Foundation.
His body of historical work had garnered media
attention from such diverse outlets as the New York
Times, Newsweek, US News & World Reports, The
Washington Post, NPR, C-SPAN, MSNBC, The Fox
News Channel, the Cox News Service, Bloomberg
Radio, the New York Daily News, the New York
Post, the Jerusalem Post, The New York Law
Journal, The New York Sun, the Denver Post, the
Weekly Standard, the Washington Times, The Seattle
Times, The Nashville Tennessean, The Raleigh News
& Observer, and the Tucson Sun.
He has extensive experience in website content
development, having worked on ATT's Interchange
system, helped develop the www.totalbaseball.com
site (called by Wired Magazine one of the 100 best
web sites of all time) and totalbaseballdaily.com,
and served as webmaster for several sites including
that of the Society for American Baseball Research.
Pietrusza holds both bachelor's and master's
degrees in history from the University at Albany
and has served on the Amsterdam (NY) City
Council. He lives in upstate New York.
About . . .
David Pietrusza
Best selling author DAVID PIETRUSZA
has been called a "scholar, author, editor,
and renaissance man" and "a 21st century
Theodore White," and one of the "best
historians in the United States."
Washington's influential newsweekly
Human Events says Pietrusza "knows all
things New York."
Winner of both the CASEY and F.C. Lane
Awards, Pietrusza has authored or edited
over three dozen books. His Rothstein
earned him an Edgar Award nomination.
Kirkus Reviews honored his 1920 as one of
its "Best Books of 2007"

"a really, really smart guy."
—Glenn Beck
"I am a big fan of David Pietrusza"
—Jonah Goldberg
“David Pietrusza has a gift for
making the past both real and
dramatically gripping.”
—Richard Norton Smith
"Pietrusza is a very gifted writer
with a marvelous eye for anecdote."
—David Frum
"a brilliant writer"
—John Rothmann, KGO-AM (SF)
"a great historian"
—Peter Boyles, KHOW (Denver)
" . . . a storyteller's eye for
characters and drama . . . "
—January Magazine
" . . . an expert on New York
history."
—WCBS-TV's Dana Tyler