American Issues: A Primary Source Reader in United States History, Volume 2

About Irwin UngerRobert Tomes

Pulitzer Prize winning historian Irwin Unger has been teaching American history for over forty years on both coasts. Born and largely educated in New York he has lived in California Virginia and Washington State. He is married to Debi Unger and they have five children now all safely past their college years. Professor Unger formerly taught at California State University at Long Beach the University of California at Davis and New York University. He is now professor emeritus at NYU.  Professor Ungers professional interests have ranged widely within American history. He has written on Reconstruction the Progressive Era and on the 1960s. His first book The Greenback Era won a Pulitzer Prize in 1965. Since then he has written The Movement: The New Left and (with Debi Unger) The Vulnerable Years Turning Point: 1968 The Best of Intentions (about the Great Society) LBJ: A Life The Guggenheims A Family History. He has just completed a book on the 1960s and he and Debi Unger are working on a biography of General George C. Marshall.