Dominic Sandbrook
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Dominic Sandbrook (born 1974) is a British historian and writer. Born in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, he was educated at Malvern College and studied at Balliol College, Oxford, the University of St Andrews and Jesus College, Cambridge. From 2001 he taught history at the University of Sheffield before leaving in 2004 to become a freelance writer. He is currently a member of the History Faculty and fellow of the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford University.
Dr Sandbrook's first book, a biography of the American politician and presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy, proved extremely controversial on its release in the United States in 2004. Although the book was described by Louis Menand in the New Yorker as "intelligent and well written" and praised in other publications, it was also, as Menand put it, "unremittingly unsympathetic" toward its subject. McCarthy himself called the book "almost libellous," but most newspaper critics and academic reviewers agreed with Sandbrook's conclusions.
In 2005, Sandbrook published Never Had It So Good, a history of Britain from the Suez Crisis to the Beatles. It covers British politics, culture and society during the first half of the 1960s and attracted glowing reviews, being nominated as a Book of the Year in the Observer, Sunday Telegraph, Independent on Sunday and Spectator. The sequel, White Heat, covering the Harold Wilson years, is due to be published in August 2006.
Sandbrook's numerous articles and reviews have appeared in the Sunday Times, Sunday Telegraph, Observer and Daily Telegraph, and he has appeared on BBC radio and television, most notably as a critic of the late John Lennon. Since January 2006 he has also written a weekly column on history and current affairs for the Evening Standard.
Bibliography
- Eugene McCarthy and the Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism, Dominic Sandbrook, Publ. Alfred A. Knopf (2004) ISBN 1400041058
- Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles, Dominic Sandbrook, Publ. Little, Brown (2005) ISBN 0316860832
- White Heat: A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties, Dominic Sandbrook, Publ. Little, Brown (2006) ISBN 0316724521
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