David Eisenbach

David Eisenbach is a historian and an expert on media and politics and a lecturer in the history department at Columbia University. He was a Democratic candidate for New York City's Public Advocate in the 2017 primary election, where he received 23.42% and 92,246 votes against incumbent Letitia James. He was also a candidate in the February 2019 non-partisan special election for the same position in which he came in 13th place in a field of 17.

Biography

Education Eisenbach received a BA in modern European history from Columbia University in 1994, an MA in history education from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1995, and an MA (2001), MPhil (2003) and a PhD (2006) in American history from the Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Although identifying as straight, Dr. Eisenbach's first book, Gay Power: An American Revolution (2006) is a history of how the gay rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s transformed American politics and society. The American Library Association named Gay Power a 2007 Stonewall honor book, and it was a finalist for the 2007 Lambda Literary Awards in LGBT Studies.

Together with Larry Flynt, Eisenbach co-wrote One Nation Under Sex (2011) which documents how the private lives of America's most powerful leaders shaped history.

Politics Dr. Eisenbach was the communications director for Senator Mike Gravel's 2008 presidential election campaign.

He was a Democratic candidate for New York City's Public Advocate in the 2017 primary election, where he received 23.42% and 92,246 votes against incumbent Letitia James. Host for the H2 Channel TV series 10 Things You Don't Know About (2012) Celebrity history teacher on Season 2 of Dream School (2014) Appeared on The Making of the Mob: Chicago (2016) Appeared as a historian on Netflix series, "Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War" (2025)

Books

Gay Power: An American Revolution (2006). . The Kingmakers: How the Media Threatens Our Security and Our Democracy (2011) with Mike Gravel One Nation Under Sex (2011) with Larry Flynt.