David Greenberg is a professor of history at Rutgers University. His latest book, John Lewis: A Life (Simon & Schuster, 2024), is a biography of the congressman and civil rights hero. The winner of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Cullman Center of the New York Public Library, Greenberg is the author or editor of several books on American history and politics including Nixon's Shadow: The History of an Image (2003) and Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency (2016), both prize-winning volumes. Formerly acting editor of The New Republic and columnist for Slate, Greenberg now writes regularly for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, The Atlantic, Liberties, and many other scholarly and popular publications. He holds a PhD in history from Columbia University and a BA from Yale and lives with his family in Manhattan.
