Buddy Levy (February 2, 1960) is an English professor of writing at Washington State University, a freelance magazine writer, TV personality, and author of nine non-fiction books.
[2] He was a talking head on The Men Who Built America ("Frontiersmen" episode), produced by Leonardo DiCaprio for the History Channel.
He shows that, contrary to popular belief of a small number of smarter and better armed Europeans, the Spanish were nearly defeated, prevailing only after gaining the support of neighboring tribes.
Historian Arthur L. Herman in the Wall Street Journal says Levy successfully avoids falling into the trap of ideology over retelling about European conquests, focusing on the individuals involved.
[1] Washington State University football coach Mike Leach collaborated with Levy to write Geronimo: Leadership Strategies of an American Warrior (2014).
[8] Finally he published Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History’s Greatest Arctic Rescue, a tri-biography of attempts to reach the North Pole by airship between 1906 and 1928.
He restores the reputations of Walter Wellman as a genuine innovator and explorer; and the Italian commander Umberto Nobile.