Anthony John "Tony" Badger (born 6 March 1947) is a British academic and historian.
[4] He retired from Cambridge at the end of the 2013/2014 academic year and took up a post as Professor of American History at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Why White Liberals Fail: Race and Southern Politics from FDR to Trump (Harvard University Press, 2022) Prime Minister Gordon Brown selected Professor Badger’s book FDR: The First Hundred Days, about the 32nd President of the United States, as his 2008 book of the year.
In the Guardian, Brown wrote,[7] It's a classic example of how a work of history can illuminate the issues we're dealing with today.
What it brings out with such clarity is how Roosevelt, faced with an economic crisis of unprecedented severity, was prepared to put aside conventional policy approaches and, instead, had the courage to innovate and improvise to see what would work.
It's a brilliantly written, compelling and moving portrait of the man, and it's another outstanding example of how British historians add so much to the field of American history.This work influenced Gordon Brown in shaping the economic response to the recession.
[8] On 24 March 2009, Gordon Brown appointed Badger as the chairman of the Kennedy Memorial Trust, effective from July 7, 2009.