David Scott Brown (born 29 September, 1966) is a Horace E. Raffensperger professor of history at Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania, United States.
[1][2] He is the author of several books, including biographies of Richard Hofstadter and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The book explores the life and times of Columbia University historian Richard Hofstadter.
[4] His 2009 book Beyond the Frontier: The Midwestern Voice in American Historical Writing (also from the University of Chicago Press) is a study of Midwestern historians and their influence on the American historical profession.
[5] He is also the author of Thomas Jefferson: A Biographical Companion (ABC-Clio, 1998);[3] Moderates: The Vital Center of American Politics, from the Founding to Today (University of North Carolina Press, 2016);[6] Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Harvard University Press, 2017);[7] The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams (Scribner, 2020); and The First Populist: The Defiant Life of Andrew Jackson (Scribner, 2022).