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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.