Winner of both the CASEY and F.C. Lane Awards,
Pietrusza has authored or edited over three dozen
books. His Rothstein earned him an Edgar Award
nomination. Kirkus Reviews honored his 1920 as one
of its "Best Books of 2007"
As a noted presidential scholar, Pietrusza has been
selected to serve on the Siena College Research
Institute (SRI) Survey of United States Presidents,
along with such historians as David McCullough,
Douglas Brinkley, Paul Johnson, William
Leuchtenberg, Ted Morgan, Thomas Fleming,
Joseph Persico, and Harold Holzer.
Along with such notable historians as Richard
Norton Smith, Amity Shlaes, and Michael Kazin, he
has been featured on C-SPAN's "The Contenders"
series.
His books have been utilized as texts at colleges
such as George Washington University, the City
University of New York, the University at Buffalo,
Baylor University, Bellevue College, the University
of Illinois, Baylor University, the University of San
Francisco, Portland State University, the University
of Central Florida, and Queensboro Community
College. His web site has been used as a teaching
tool at Sacred Heart University.
Both his CASEY Award-winning Judge and Jury and
his Edgar Award finalist Rothstein shattered
conventional thinking and accepted historical
models.
"1920" has been part of the syllabus for the course
"Congress, The Presidency & 21st Century Media"
offered by C-SPAN, The Cable Center and the
University of Denver. His talk on "Silent Cal's
Almanack" is included in the curriculum for the
C-SPAN Classroom initiative.
Pietrusza has served as editor-in-chief of Total
Sports Publishing and as National President of the
Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) as
well as on the Board of Trustees of the Calvin
Coolidge Memorial Foundation.
His body of historical work had garnered media
attention from such diverse outlets as the New York
Times, Newsweek, US News & World Reports, The
Washington Post, Newsmax, NPR, C-SPAN BookTV,
C-SPAN American History TV, MSNBC, The Fox
News Channel, GBTV, the Cox News Service,
Bloomberg Radio, the New York Daily News, the
New York Post, the Jerusalem Post, The New York
Law Journal, The New York Sun, the Denver Post,
the Weekly Standard, the Washington Times, The
Seattle Times, The Nashville Tennessean, The
Raleigh News & Observer, and the Tucson Sun.
Pietrusza is the Recipient of the 2011 Excellence in
Arts & Letters Award of the Alumni Association of
the University at Albany.
He has extensive experience in website content
development, having worked on ATT's Interchange
system, helped develop the www.totalbaseball.com
site (called by Wired Magazine one of the 100 best
web sites of all time) and totalbaseballdaily.com,
and served as webmaster for several sites including
that of the Society for American Baseball Research.
Pietrusza holds both bachelor's and master's
degrees in history from the University at Albany
and has served on the Amsterdam (NY) City
Council. He lives in upstate New York.
Pietrusza has authored or edited over three dozen
books. His Rothstein earned him an Edgar Award
nomination. Kirkus Reviews honored his 1920 as one
of its "Best Books of 2007"
As a noted presidential scholar, Pietrusza has been
selected to serve on the Siena College Research
Institute (SRI) Survey of United States Presidents,
along with such historians as David McCullough,
Douglas Brinkley, Paul Johnson, William
Leuchtenberg, Ted Morgan, Thomas Fleming,
Joseph Persico, and Harold Holzer.
Along with such notable historians as Richard
Norton Smith, Amity Shlaes, and Michael Kazin, he
has been featured on C-SPAN's "The Contenders"
series.
His books have been utilized as texts at colleges
such as George Washington University, the City
University of New York, the University at Buffalo,
Baylor University, Bellevue College, the University
of Illinois, Baylor University, the University of San
Francisco, Portland State University, the University
of Central Florida, and Queensboro Community
College. His web site has been used as a teaching
tool at Sacred Heart University.
Both his CASEY Award-winning Judge and Jury and
his Edgar Award finalist Rothstein shattered
conventional thinking and accepted historical
models.
"1920" has been part of the syllabus for the course
"Congress, The Presidency & 21st Century Media"
offered by C-SPAN, The Cable Center and the
University of Denver. His talk on "Silent Cal's
Almanack" is included in the curriculum for the
C-SPAN Classroom initiative.
Pietrusza has served as editor-in-chief of Total
Sports Publishing and as National President of the
Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) as
well as on the Board of Trustees of the Calvin
Coolidge Memorial Foundation.
His body of historical work had garnered media
attention from such diverse outlets as the New York
Times, Newsweek, US News & World Reports, The
Washington Post, Newsmax, NPR, C-SPAN BookTV,
C-SPAN American History TV, MSNBC, The Fox
News Channel, GBTV, the Cox News Service,
Bloomberg Radio, the New York Daily News, the
New York Post, the Jerusalem Post, The New York
Law Journal, The New York Sun, the Denver Post,
the Weekly Standard, the Washington Times, The
Seattle Times, The Nashville Tennessean, The
Raleigh News & Observer, and the Tucson Sun.
Pietrusza is the Recipient of the 2011 Excellence in
Arts & Letters Award of the Alumni Association of
the University at Albany.
He has extensive experience in website content
development, having worked on ATT's Interchange
system, helped develop the www.totalbaseball.com
site (called by Wired Magazine one of the 100 best
web sites of all time) and totalbaseballdaily.com,
and served as webmaster for several sites including
that of the Society for American Baseball Research.
Pietrusza holds both bachelor's and master's
degrees in history from the University at Albany
and has served on the Amsterdam (NY) City
Council. He lives in upstate New York.
About . . .
David Pietrusza
David Pietrusza
| Best selling author DAVID PIETRUSZA has been called a "scholar, author, editor, and renaissance man" and "a 21st century Theodore White," and "one of the most accomplished historians in the U.S." Washington's influential newsweekly Human Events says Pietrusza "knows all things New York." |
"a really, really smart guy."
—Glenn Beck
"I am a big fan of David Pietrusza"
—Jonah Goldberg
“David Pietrusza has a gift for
making the past both real and
dramatically gripping.”
—Richard Norton Smith
"one of the great political historians
of all time . . . absolutely a brilliant
writer."
—John Rothmann, KGO-AM (SF)
"Pietrusza is a very gifted writer
with a marvelous eye for anecdote."
—David Frum
"he's so smart."
—Kimberly Guilfoyle, Fox News
"a vivid writer"
—John Bicknell, Roll Call
"a great historian"
—Peter Boyles, KHOW (Denver)
"the Theodore White of our time"
—Karl Helicher
" . . . a storyteller's eye for
characters and drama . . . "
—January Magazine
" . . . an expert on New York
history."
—WCBS-TV's Dana Tyler
"David Pietrusza writes history the
way that novelists strive to write
fiction. Pietrusza takes a seminal
event, introduces us to a broad,
fascinating cast of characters, and
ties together numerous stories filled
with drama and even humor to
create an exciting, addictive tale. . .
. I love the way David Pietrusza
writes history. . ."
—Anthony Bergen
“Pietrusza’s skills as a researcher
and a teller of tales stands out. His
works are deeply written,
informative . . . his works on these
topics have superseded all previous
works, and I predict they will stand
the test of time.”
—Richard Hamm,
professor of history and public
policy at the University at Albany.
"one of the United States' best
historians"
—Reagan Smith, WFLA (Tampa)
"a prolific writer and a deep
thinker"
—Paul A. Ibbetson,
KRMR (Hays, KS)
"I am big fan."
—John Murphy,
WAYY (Altoona, WI)
"[Pietrusza] has a wonderful ability
to tell us something we don't know,
something interesting but outside of
the mainstream of history."
—Presidential History Geeks blog
"I'm substantially convinced at this
point that noted presidential
historian David Pietrusza could re-
write the telephone directory and
make it sound like an adventure
novel."
—Robert N. Going,
author Honor Roll
—Glenn Beck
"I am a big fan of David Pietrusza"
—Jonah Goldberg
“David Pietrusza has a gift for
making the past both real and
dramatically gripping.”
—Richard Norton Smith
"one of the great political historians
of all time . . . absolutely a brilliant
writer."
—John Rothmann, KGO-AM (SF)
"Pietrusza is a very gifted writer
with a marvelous eye for anecdote."
—David Frum
"he's so smart."
—Kimberly Guilfoyle, Fox News
"a vivid writer"
—John Bicknell, Roll Call
"a great historian"
—Peter Boyles, KHOW (Denver)
"the Theodore White of our time"
—Karl Helicher
" . . . a storyteller's eye for
characters and drama . . . "
—January Magazine
" . . . an expert on New York
history."
—WCBS-TV's Dana Tyler
"David Pietrusza writes history the
way that novelists strive to write
fiction. Pietrusza takes a seminal
event, introduces us to a broad,
fascinating cast of characters, and
ties together numerous stories filled
with drama and even humor to
create an exciting, addictive tale. . .
. I love the way David Pietrusza
writes history. . ."
—Anthony Bergen
“Pietrusza’s skills as a researcher
and a teller of tales stands out. His
works are deeply written,
informative . . . his works on these
topics have superseded all previous
works, and I predict they will stand
the test of time.”
—Richard Hamm,
professor of history and public
policy at the University at Albany.
"one of the United States' best
historians"
—Reagan Smith, WFLA (Tampa)
"a prolific writer and a deep
thinker"
—Paul A. Ibbetson,
KRMR (Hays, KS)
"I am big fan."
—John Murphy,
WAYY (Altoona, WI)
"[Pietrusza] has a wonderful ability
to tell us something we don't know,
something interesting but outside of
the mainstream of history."
—Presidential History Geeks blog
"I'm substantially convinced at this
point that noted presidential
historian David Pietrusza could re-
write the telephone directory and
make it sound like an adventure
novel."
—Robert N. Going,
author Honor Roll
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