David Pietrusza Discusses An Important Year In American History From His Book 1948

David Pietrusza, author of 1948

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.”

As a noted presidential scholar, David 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.

He 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.

David 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.