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Taylor Branch

Taylor Branch (Atlanta, 14 gennaio 1947) è uno storico statunitense.

Biografia[modifica]

Nato a Atlanta, nello stato statunitense della Georgia, figlio di Franktin T. e Jane (Worghinton) Branch. Studiò all'Università della Carolina del Nord a Chapel Hill.

Sposò Christina Macy da cui ebbe due figli.^[1]

Nel 1989 venne premiato con il premio Pulitzer per la storia per Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63

Opere[modifica]

Blowing the Whistle: Dissent in the Public Interest (1972)
Second Wind (1979)
The Empire Blues (fiction) (Simon & Schuster: 1981)
Labyrinth (with Eugene M. Propper): (Viking: 1982)
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 (1988)
National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction, 1988
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65 (1998)
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968 (2006)
The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President ( 2009)
The Cartel: Inside the Rise and Imminent Fall of the NCAA (2011)

Note[modifica]

^ Brennan, Elizabeth A.; Elizabeth C. Clarage (1999). Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 1573561118. pag 319

V · D · M Vincitori del premio Pulitzer per la storia
1917–1925	J.J. Jusserand (1917) • J.F. Rhodes (1918) • J.H. Smith (1920) • W.S. Sims e B.J. Hendrick (1921) • J.T. Adams (1922) • C. Warren (1923) • C.H. McIlwain (1924) • F.L. Paxson (1925)
1926–1950	E. Channing (1926) • S.F. Bemis (1927) • V.L Parrington (1928) • F.A. Shannon (1929) • C.H. Van Tyne (1930) • B.E. Schmitt (1931) • J.J. Pershing (1932) • F.J. Turner (1933) • H. Agar (1934) • C.M. Andrews (1935) • A.C. McLaughlin (1936) • V.W. Brooks (1937) • P.H. Buck (1938) • F.L. Mott (1939) • C. Sandburg (1940) • M.L Hansen (1941) • M. Leech (1942) • E. Forbes (1943) • M. Curti (1944) • S. Bonsal (1945) • A. Schlesinger (1946) • J.P. Baxter III (1947) • B. DeVoto (1948) • R.F. Nichols (1949) • O.W. Larkin (1950)
1951–1975	R.C. Buley (1951) • O. Handlin (1952) • G. Dangerfield (1953) • B. Catton (1954) • P. Horgan (1955) • R. Hofstadter (1956) • G.F. Kennan (1957) • B. Hammond (1958) • L.D. White e J. Schneider (1959) • M. Leech (1960) • H. Feis (1961) • L.H. Gipson (1962) • C. McLaughlin Green (1963) • S.C. Powell (1964) • I. Unger (1965) • P. Miller (1966) • W.H. Goetzmann (1967) • B. Bailyn (1968) • L.W. Levy (1969) • D. Acheson (1970) • J.M. Burns (1971) • C.N. Degler (1972) • M. Kammen (1973) • D.J. Boorstin (1974) • D. Malone (1975)
1976–2000	P. Horgan (1976) • D.M. Potter (1977) • A. Chandler (1978) • D.E. Fehrenbacher (1979) • L.F. Litwack (1980) • L.A. Cremin (1981) • C.V. Woodward (1982) • R.L. Isaac (1983) • T.K. McCraw (1985) • W.A. McDougall (1986) • B. Bailyn (1987) • R.V. Bruce (1988) • J.M. McPherson e T. Branch (1989) • S. Karnow (1990) • L.T. Ulrich (1991) • M.E. Neely (1992) • G.S. Wood (1993) • D.K. Goodwin (1995) • A. Taylor (1996) • J.N. Rakove (1997) • E.J. Larson (1998) • E.G. Burrows e M. Wallace (1999) • D.M. Kennedy (2000)
2001–2025	J.J. Ellis (2001) • L. Menand (2002) • R. Atkinson (2003) • S. Hahn (2004) • D.H. Fischer (2005) • D. Oshinsky (2006) • G. Roberts e H. Klibanoff (2007) • D.W. Howe (2008) • A. Gordon-Reed (2009) • L. Ahamed (2010)