David Pietrusza

David Pietrusza is an American author and historian, and is considered an expert on US politics in the 1920s.

He has written a number of books, including Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR's 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal, which won the 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal for US History, received a Kirkus starred review and was nominated for the 2022 Kirkus Prize and the 2022 New Deal Book Award. Born in Amsterdam, New York, Pietrusza graduated from the State University of New York at Albany with bachelor's and master's degrees in history.

He won election to Amsterdam's City Council from the city's Fourth Ward, in 1985.

In 2015 the Greater Amsterdam (NY) School District inducted Pietrusza into the inaugural class of its Hall of Fame (along with humanitarian Dr. Tom Catena).

Awards and honors CASEY Award for Judge and Jury: The Life and Times of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis Finalist (1999), The Seymour Medal, Judge and Jury: The Life and Times of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis Rothstein, Nominated, Best Fact Crime Book 2004, The Edgar Awards of The Mystery Writers of America. Excellence in Arts & Letters Award, University at Albany Alumni Association Greater Amsterdam (NY) School District Hall of Fame (initial class) Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR's 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal won the 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal for US History. TR's Last War: Theodore Roosevelt, the Great War, and a Journey of Triumph and Tragedy won the 2019 Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medal for US History. Gangsterland: A Tour Through the Dark Heart of Jazz-Age New York City won the 2024 Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medal (tie) for Regional US Non-Fiction. Gangsterland: A Tour Through the Dark Heart of Jazz-Age New York Citywas honored as a 2024 NYC Big Book Award Distinguished Favorite Finalist (1997), The CASEY Award, Lights On! The Wild, Century-Long Saga of Night Baseball 2022 New Deal Book Nominee, Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR’s 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal.

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