Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress

Douglas Brinkley is an American author, professor of history at Rice University and a fellow at the James Baker Institute for Public Policy. Brinkley is the history commentator for CBS News and a contributing editor to the magazine Vanity Fair. He joined the faculty of Rice University as a... professor of history in 2007. Brinkley was born in Atlanta, Georgia. His parents were high school teachers. Raised in Perrysburg, Ohio he earned his B.A. from Ohio State University , and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Georgetown University in U.S. Diplomatic History. He has taught at Tulane University, Princeton University, the U.S. Naval Academy, has received an honorary doctorate for his contributions to American letters from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. During the early 1990s, Brinkley taught American Arts and Politics out of Hofstra aboard the Majic Bus [sic], a roving transcontinental classroom, from which emerged the book, The Majic Bus: An American Odyssey . In 1993, he left Hofstra to teach at the University of New Orleans, where he taught the class again using two natural-gas fueled buses.
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