Richard Brookhiser (/ˈbrʊkhaɪzər/; 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.
Books in order of publication:
The Outside Story (Doubleday reissue edition: 1986)
Way of the Wasp: How It Made America, and How It Can Save It, So to Speak, (Free Press: 1990)
Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington, (Free Press: 1996)
Alexander Hamilton, American, 240 pages (Free Press: 1999)
Fighting the Good Fight: A History of the New York Conservative Party, 434 pages (St. Augustine’s Press: 2002)
George Washington: A National Treasure, (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution: 2002)
America’s First Dynasty : The Adamses, 1735–1918, (Free Press: 2002)
Rules of Civility: The 110 Precepts That Guided Our First President in War and Peace, (University of Virginia Press: 2003)
Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution, (Free Press: 2003)
What Would the Founders Do?: Our Questions, Their Answers, (Basic Books: 2006)
George Washington on Leadership, (Basic Books: 2008)
Right Time, Right Place: Coming of Age with William F. Buckley Jr. and the Conservative Movement, (Basic Books: 2009)
James Madison, (Basic Books: 2011)
Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln, (Basic Books: 2014)
John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court, (Basic Books: 2018)
Give Me Liberty: A History of America’s Exceptional Idea, 304 pages (Basic Books: 2019)
Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution, 276 pages (Yale University Press: 2024)
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