Critics have compared best-
selling author David Pietrusza's
work to that of H. L. Mencken,
Eric Larson, Doris Kearns
Goodwin, Theodore H. White,
David McCullough, H. W. Brands,
Joseph Ellis,
and Tom Wolfe.
Winner of the CASEY Award, the
F. C. Lane Award, and the
Independent Publisher Book
Awards Silver Medal for World
History, Pietrusza is also an
Edgar Award finalist and a
Seymour Medal NASSH Book
Award nominee. Kirkus Reviews
honored his 1920 as a "Best
Books of 2007" selection.
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"David Pietrusza has a gift for
making the past both real and
dramatically gripping."
—Richard Norton Smith
"A very gifted writer with a
marvelous eye for anecdote."
—David Frum
"a great—really easy
to read—historian"
—Jonah Goldberg
"an authority on the 1920s and
[Calvin] Coolidge . . . David
Pietrusza has brought Coolidge
back to life with his volumes
about the president . . ."
—Amity Shlaes
"a great writer."
—Kimberly Guilfoyle
"a champion historian . . . one of
the most praised and prominent
historians in the English
language"
—Barry Farber
"the best historian of our times.
Deep, clever, witty, master
of the subject."
—Ivan Denisov
"A storyteller's eye for
characters and drama . . ."
—January Magazine
"History books walk a fine line
and it's difficult for historians to
be informative and entertaining.
Pietrusza makes it look easy."
—Anthony Bergen
"the premier chronicler of 20th
century presidential campaigns"
—John Bicknell
"a master craftsman"
—The Nashville Tennessean
"Pietrusza's election books
are seriously awesome"
—Sean Trende,
Senior Elections Analyst,
Real Clear Politics
"The Theodore White of
the 21st Century."
—David Stokes,
WAVA (Washington, D.C.)
"an amazing
political historian"
--Author Michael Malice
"a remarkable man,
a great historian"
--John Rothmann,
(KGO, San Francisco)
"a presidential historian
unequaled."
—Brad Jackson,
Coffee & Markets podcast
"One of our finest
public speakers"
—Glenn Raucher,
West Side YMCA
Writers Voice Program
"Amazing writer, one of
America's greats!!"
—Author Bob Batchelor
"If you like inside views of
politics from earlier times, look
no further than the works of
historian David Pietrusza. His
books on the elections of 1920,
1948 and 1960 are a trilogy
worthy of comparison to
Theodore White’s 'Making of the
President' series."
—Ed Tant, onlineathens.com
(Athens Banner-Herald)
"one of my favorite historians"
—Salena Zito,
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
"I highly recommend David
Pietrusza's exciting books."
—New York City TV legend
Joe Franklin
a "Renaissance man"
—author (and Official Historian
of Major League Baseball)
John Thorn
"[Pietrusza's] work is inspiring
and combines superb research
with incredible writing!'
—Author Bob Batchelor
"one of the most brilliant writers
of history and biography"
—Blanquita Cullum
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