Thaddeus Russell is a historian and cultural critic and the author of A Renegade History of the United States, to be published in 2010 by Free Press/Simon & Schuster. He has taught American history, American Studies, and the history of philosophy at Columbia University, Barnard College, the New School for Social Research, and Eugene Lang College.
Born and raised in Berkeley, California, Russell graduated from Antioch College and received a PhD in history from Columbia University.
His work focuses on race, work, sexuality, popular culture, and American citizenship.
Russell's first book, Out of the Jungle: Jimmy Hoffa and the Re-Making of the American Working Class, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2001. He has published opinion articles in New York Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, The Daily Beast, Christian Science Monitor, Salon, and Atlanta Journal-Constitution, as well as scholarly essays in American Quarterly and The Columbia History of Post-World War II America.
Russell has also appeared on the History Channel and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
