Accolades: Warren Goldstein

Posted  5/9/2005
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Warren Goldstein, professor of history and chair of the department, has been much in the news in recent months.

His reviews of The House I Live In: Race in the American Century, by Robert J. Norrell, and Richard Parker’s biography, John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics, both appeared in the Chicago Tribune.

An opinion piece by Goldstein, “It’s the Return of the Gilded Age,” was carried in a number of papers across the country, including the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Miami Herald, and Hartford Courant. In the piece, he compares the current era in America to the “Gilded Age” of the late 19th century, “an era boasting astonishing, historically unprecedented wealth, alongside the ugliest poverty and abuse of power.”

In addition, Goldstein was interviewed for a front-page article in the Hartford Courant about baseball returning to the nation’s capital while Congress was investigating the use of steroids in the sport.

Reviews of his book, William Sloane Coffin, a Holy Impatience, published by Yale University Press, appeared in the American Historical Review, the Journal of American History, Presbyterian Outlook, and First Things, the Journal of Religion, Culture, and Public Life. As part of a tribute to Coffin last month at Yale, Goldstein participated in a panel discussion and was quoted in a Hartford Courant article about the event.