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Comment: The subject seems notable, under WP:NAUTHOR. But the usual way this is done is by giving the summary (not just name check) of two books (tick) and two book reviews each book (here only two individual reviews). There are 214 reviews of this author, so plenty to choose from, including for example: The American Historical Review, 2000, Vol.105 (4), p.1303. And The New York review of books, 1999, Vol.46 (15), p.40. So a little bit of work on this should see this over the line. ChrysGalley (talk) 11:15, 3 October 2026 (UTC)
Andrew Burstein | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 16, 1952 |
| Known for | Books on Thomas Jefferson and early American political culture |
| Spouse | Nancy Isenberg |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Columbia University (B.A.) University of Michigan (M.A.) University of Virginia (Ph.D.) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Louisiana State University (emeritus) University of Tulsa |
Andrew Burstein (born June 16, 1952) is an American historian. He is the Charles P. Manship Professor of History emeritus at Louisiana State University and has written extensively on Thomas Jefferson, the early presidency, and the political culture of the early American republic.
Early life and education
[edit]Burstein attended the Hackley School in Tarrytown, New York. He received a B.A. in Oriental Studies from Columbia University in 1974 and an M.A. from the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan in 1975. For roughly fifteen years afterward he worked in the China trade, first for a Wall Street import firm and later as an independent consultant. He completed a Ph.D. in American history at the University of Virginia in 1994.[1][2]
Career
[edit]Burstein taught first as an assistant professor at the University of Northern Iowa. He later held the Mary Frances Barnard Chair in Nineteenth-Century American History at the University of Tulsa. In 2008 he moved to Louisiana State University as the Charles P. Manship Professor of History; he is now emeritus. While at LSU he also edited the Southern Biography series published by LSU Press.[3]
He has served on the Advisory Board of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson. He appeared as a consultant on Ken Burns’s PBS documentary Thomas Jefferson and has been interviewed on C-SPAN’s American Presidents series and Booknotes.[4]
Books
[edit]Burstein has published more than a dozen books. Several examine Jefferson’s private life and political reputation; others treat Andrew Jackson, Washington Irving, and the Adams family. He has collaborated frequently with the historian Nancy Isenberg.
- The Inner Jefferson: Portrait of a Grieving Optimist (University of Virginia Press, 1995)
- Sentimental Democracy: The Evolution of America’s Romantic Self-Image (Hill and Wang, 1999)
- America’s Jubilee: How in 1826 a Generation Remembered Fifty Years of Independence (Knopf, 2001)
- Letters from the Head and Heart: Writings of Thomas Jefferson (University of North Carolina Press, 2002)
- The Passions of Andrew Jackson (Knopf, 2003)
- Mortal Remains: Death in Early America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003; co-edited with Nancy Isenberg)
- Jefferson’s Secrets: Death and Desire at Monticello (Basic Books, 2005)
- The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving (Basic Books, 2007)
- Madison and Jefferson (Random House, 2010; with Nancy Isenberg)
- Lincoln Dreamt He Died: The Midnight Visions of Remarkable Americans from Colonial Times to Freud (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
- Democracy’s Muse: How Thomas Jefferson Became an FDR Liberal, a Reagan Republican, and a Tea Party Fanatic, All the While Being Dead (University of Virginia Press, 2015)
- The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality (Viking, 2019; with Nancy Isenberg)
- Longing for Connection: Entangled Memories and Emotional Loss in Early America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024)
- Being Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Reviews of his work have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, the Times Literary Supplement, and academic journals including the William and Mary Quarterly.[5][6]
He has also written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Salon.
Personal life
[edit]Burstein is married to the historian Nancy Isenberg, who holds the T. Harry Williams Professorship at Louisiana State University. They have co-authored several books. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.[4]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Burstein, Andrew". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved October 2, 2026.
- ↑ "Andrew Burstein, Ph.D., Historian". Faulkner Society. Retrieved October 2, 2026.
- ↑ "Faculty – Andrew Burstein". LSU Department of History. Retrieved October 2, 2026.
- 1 2 "Andrew Burstein". Macmillan Publishers. Retrieved October 2, 2026.
- ↑ Anderson, Virginia DeJohn (April 22, 2019). "Two Early Presidents Who Questioned the Wisdom of 'the People'". The New York Times. Retrieved October 2, 2026.
- ↑ Brookhiser, Richard (February 25, 2003). "A Hero Who Saw It All His Way". The New York Times. Retrieved October 2, 2026.
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