Douglas Brinkley Net Worth - The Complete Breakdown

Grab all the details on the net worth of Douglas Brinkley, an American author, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and professor of history at Rice University.

Douglas Brinkleyis an American author, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and professor of history at Rice University. In media, he is well known as the history commentator for CNN, and a contributing editor to the magazine Vanity Fair. He is well known as a presidential biographer too.

Douglas is also a public spokesperson on conservation issues. He's been in the faculty of Rice University as a professor of history since 2007. As an academician and a professor, people are eager to know how much money he earns from his work in CNN and teaching job. So we compiled some important facts on his net worth, so you can get an idea of his fortune.

What is CNN Historian Douglas Brinkley's Net Worth?

As of now, we do not know the exact net worth Douglas Brinkley holds or earns. But, we are pretty sure the professor does possess a fortune, which is in six figures amount. An average academician in the United States earns an average salary of well above $100,000. As a reputed professor of a prestigious university in the United States, Douglas' income is way above this amount.

Douglas Brinkley's net worth is in a six-figure amount.
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According to Vanity Fair, Douglas joined Vanity Fair as a contributing editor in December 2005. Currently a professor of history at Rice University and a fellow at the university's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Brinkley, he began his career teaching history at the U.S. Naval Academy and at Princeton University.

Afterward, Douglas Brinkley - who is the subject of weight loss speculation - took a position at Hofstra University. Also, he served as the Stephen E. Ambrose Professor of History at the University of New Orleans and the director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies there, and, at Tulane University, as a professor of history and the director of the Theodore Roosevelt Center for American Civilization. 

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Douglas is also an author of several books, also writing some of numerous New York Times best-sellers, including 'Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War' (William Morrow, 2004); 'Voices of Valor: D-Day: June 6,' '1944' (Bulfinch, 2004), written with Ronald J. Drez; 'The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast' (HarperCollins, 2006); and 'The Reagan Diaries' (HarperCollins, 2007), which Brinkley edited.

Douglas Brinkley's Early Life

Douglas Brinkley was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1960. But he was raised in Perrysburg, Ohio. His parents worked as high school teachers.

Douglas Brinkley was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1960.
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Brinkley, who is a married man, studied at Perrysburg High School and got into The Ohio State University. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree there in 1982 and went on to pursue a Master of Arts degree at Georgetown University. He received an M.A. there and later obtained a Ph.D. in U.S. diplomatic history in 1989. Douglas also received an honorary doctorate for his contributions to American letters from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

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