Arthur Goldhammer

Arthur Goldhammer (born November 17, 1946) is an American academic and translator.

Early life Goldhammer studied mathematics at MIT, gaining his PhD in 1973.

Career Since 1977 he has worked as a translator. He is based at the Center for European Studies at Harvard.

Goldhammer is a four-time winner of the French-American Foundation translation prize, including for his translations of Alexis de Tocqueville's The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution and Democracy in America.

Goldhammer's translation of Thomas Piketty's book Capital in the Twenty-First Century became a New York Times best-seller. The kill by Émile Zola, 2004. Camus at Combat: writing 1944–1947 by Albert Camus, 2006 Inscription and erasure: literature and written culture from the eleventh to the eighteenth century by Roger Chartier, 2007 Vital nourishment : departing from happiness by François Jullien, 2007 The demands of liberty: civil society in France since the Revolution by Pierre Rosanvallon, 2007. Counter-Democracy: Politics in an Age of Distrust by Pierre Rosanvallon, 2008. Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in America: Their Friendship and Their Travels by Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont, ed. Oliver Zunz, 2010 The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Democratic Legitimacy: Impartiality, Reflexivity, Proximity by Pierre Rosanvallon, 2011 Empire's Children: Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies by Emmanuelle Saada, 2012. Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, 2014 The Economics of Inequality by Thomas Piketty, 2015 Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty, 2020