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Richard Brookhiser was born on 23 July, 1955 in Irondequoit, New York, U.S., is an American journalist, biographer and historian. Discover Richard Brookhiser's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 68 years old?

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Occupation Journalist author editor historian
Age 68 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 23 July, 1955
Birthday 23 July
Birthplace Irondequoit, New York, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1955

Richard Brookhiser (born February 23, 1955) is an American journalist, biographer and historian.

He is a senior editor at National Review.

He is most widely known for a series of biographies of America's founders, including Alexander Hamilton, Gouverneur Morris, and George Washington.

Brookhiser was born in Irondequoit, a suburb north of Rochester, New York.

His father worked for Eastman Kodak in Rochester and was a lieutenant in the Army Air Corps during World War II.

He has written books that deal either with the nation's founding, or the principles of America's founders, including What Would the Founders Do?, a book describing how the Founding Fathers of the United States would approach topical issues that generate controversy in modern-day America.

1970

Brookhiser began writing for National Review in 1970.

"My first article, on antiwar protests in my high school, was a cover story in National Review in 1970, when I was 15."

1977

He earned an A.B. degree (1977) at Yale.

In his freshman year he took a class on Thomas Jefferson taught by Garry Wills.

Although admitted to Yale Law School, Brookhiser went to work full-time for National Review in 1977; by the time he was 23, he was a senior editor, the youngest in the magazine's history.

He was selected as the successor to the magazine's founder, William F. Buckley, until Buckley ultimately changed his mind.

For a short time he wrote speeches for Vice President George H. W. Bush.

He has written for a variety of magazines and newspapers.

Brookhiser's work has appeared in the "Talk of the Town" section of The New Yorker magazine as well as in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, The Atlantic Monthly, Time, and Vanity Fair.

1987

In 1987 he began a column for The New York Observer which he wrote until 2007.

1992

Brookhiser became ill with testicular cancer in 1992 and smoked marijuana to alleviate nausea from chemotherapy.

(Before that, he had smoked marijuana in college about ten times, he said.)

1996

"Because of the marijuana, my last two courses of chemotherapy were almost nausea-free," he said in 1996.

"My cancer is gone now, I was lucky."

On March 6, 1996, he testified before a congressional committee about using marijuana, urging the committee members to support decriminalization of marijuana for medical purposes.

"My support for medical marijuana is not a contradiction of my principles, but an extension of them," Brookhiser told the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Crime.

"I am for law and order. But crime has to be fought intelligently and the law disgraces itself when it harasses the sick. I am for traditional virtues, but if carrying your beliefs to unjust ends is not moral, it is philistine."

He lives in Manhattan (East Village) with his wife, Jeanne Safer, a psychotherapist and author, most recently, of The Normal One.

They also have a home in Ulster County in the Catskills.

2002

Brookhiser both wrote and hosted the documentary films Rediscovering George Washington, by Michael Pack, broadcast on PBS on July 4, 2002, and Rediscovering Alexander Hamilton, also by Pack, broadcast on PBS on April 11, 2011.

2004

His book Alexander Hamilton, American led to the "Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America" exhibition at The New-York Historical Society (2004–2005), for which he was the historian curator.

2005

He received an honorary doctorate degree in 2005 from Washington College.

2008

In 2008, President George W. Bush awarded Brookhiser the National Humanities Medal in a White House ceremony.