David M. Oshinsky

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David M. Oshinsky, PhD, is a professor in the NYU Department of History and director of the Division of Medical Humanities at the NYU School of Medicine. In 2005, he won the Pulitzer Prize in History for Polio: An American Story. His other books include the D.B. Hardeman Prize–winning A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy, and the Robert Kennedy Prize–winning “Worse Than Slavery”: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice. His articles and reviews appear regularly in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

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Books by David M. Oshinsky

A Conspiracy So Immense

The World of Joe McCarthy

By David M. Oshinsky

Few politicians in our history have had the emotional impact of Joe McCarthy and acclaimed historian David Oshinsky’s chronicling of his life has been called both “nuanced” and “masterful.”

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Worse Than Slavery

By David M. Oshinsky

This sensitively told tale of suffering, brutality, and inhumanity explores an epic history of race and punishment in the deepest South from emancipation to the Civil Rights Era—and beyond.

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