Born: 11-Aug-1961
Birthplace: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Columnist

Executive summary: Shields and Brooks

Conservative columnist for the New York Times, appears as half of Shields and Brooks on PBS's Lehrer News Hour. Former editor for the Weekly Standard and Newsweek. Author of Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There, on what he calls the "bourgeois bohemians".

Not to be confused with character actor "David Allen Brooks".

    University: BA History, University of Chicago (1983)

    Atlantic Monthly Contributing Editor
    Newsweek Editor (former)
    The Weekly Standard Senior Editor (former)
    National Review
    The New Yorker
    The New York Times Columnist
    The Wall Street Journal 9 years
    The Washington Post
    The Washington Times

    TELEVISION
    Lehrer News Hour Commentator

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    The Last Debate (5-Nov-2000) Himself

Author of books:
Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There (May-2000, nonfiction)
On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense (2-Jun-2004, nonfiction)

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