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David Rubel has made a career of bringing history alive for readers of all ages.

Recognized nationally as an author, speaker, and historian, David has written fifteen books and edited a dozen more during his twenty-five years in publishing. Most of these titles focus on making American history accessible to a broad audience. Working with many of the country’s finest historians—including Pulitzer Prize–winners Joseph J. Ellis and James M. McPherson and Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein—David has created enduring books that make first-rate scholarship understandable and compelling.

David’s most recent book, If I Had a Hammer: Building Homes and Hope with Habitat for Humanity, features a collaboration with President Jimmy Carter....more David Rubel has made a career of bringing history alive for readers of all ages.

Recognized nationally as an author, speaker, and historian, David has written fifteen books and edited a dozen more during his twenty-five years in publishing. Most of these titles focus on making American history accessible to a broad audience. Working with many of the country’s finest historians—including Pulitzer Prize–winners Joseph J. Ellis and James M. McPherson and Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein—David has created enduring books that make first-rate scholarship understandable and compelling.

David’s most recent book, If I Had a Hammer: Building Homes and Hope with Habitat for Humanity, features a collaboration with President Jimmy Carter. Folk legend Pete Seeger, whose classic song gave the book its title, calls If I Had a Hammer “an inspiring book, telling how ideas starting on a little farm in Georgia have grown to a worldwide movement.”

Adults and children alike have embraced David’s work. The Indianapolis Star has called The Coming Free: The Struggle for African-American Equality “a magnificent accounting of the civil rights activism of blacks” with a visual presentation that is “stunning and memorable.” His children’s books The Scholastic Encyclopedia of the Presidents and Their Times and The Scholastic Atlas of the United States have both become grade-school standards, selling more than half a million copies each in multiple editions.

As the president of Agincourt Press, a book production company in Chatham, New York, David works with his wife and partner, Julia Rubel, to conceive and develop projects for numerous publishers. Some of these he writes himself; others, he edits. For all, he coordinates the text, image research, and graphic design so that the narratives leap off the page.

A 1983 graduate of Columbia University, where he was sports editor of the Columbia Daily Spectator, David began his career as a correspondent for the Pacific News Service, covering everything from rock music to street gangs. He then worked as an editorial assistant at HarperCollins before becoming a freelance writer and editor. In 1990, David founded Agincourt Press in New York City. From 1994 until 2001, he served as president of the American Book Producers Association. In 1996, he moved his company from Manhattan to Chatham, a rural community in New York’s Hudson River Valley, where he now lives with his wife and two children.

David appears regularly on television and radio to discuss his work, especially as it relates to the American presidents. Concise biographies of the presidents that he recorded to support the publication of To the Best of My Ability: The American Presidents were syndicated to public radio stations nationwide and ran several times daily during the six weeks leading up to the 2000 election.

David speaks widely on history and presidential politics. He has lectured at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., the Carter Center in Atlanta and at numerous schools and institutions.
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I spent more than a few years searching for a tiramisu recipe that measured up to restaurant fare. My attempts were either too soggy or too complicated. Then I found this recipe. The only way to mess it up is to use the wrong ingredients. Most importantly, use hard Italian ladyfinger cookies, not the spongy Twinkie-style cakes that supermarket bakeries call ladyfingers. (I buy the Vantia brand.... read more »

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Average rating: 3.92 · 237 ratings · 52 reviews · 26 distinct works

	The Carpenter's Gift: A Christmas Tale about the Rockefeller Center Tree by David Rubel, Jim LaMarche (Illustrator) 4.28 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Bedside Baccalaureate: A Handy Daily Cerebral Primer to Fill in the Gaps, Refresh Your Knowledge & Impress Yourself & Other Intellectuals 3.72 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Scholastic Encyclopedia of the Presidents and Their Times (updated 2005) 3.95 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Reading List: Contemporary Fiction: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works of 125 Authors 3.54 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	If I Had a Hammer: Building Homes and Lives with Habitat for Humanity by David Rubel, Jimmy Carter (Foreword) 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Mr. President: The Human Side of America's Chief Executives 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	Scholastic Encyclopedia Of The Presidents And Their Times 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Webster's 21st Century Chronology Of World History, 3000 Bc 1993 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	My rating:
	Scholastic Atlas Of The United States 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	The United States In The 20th Century: The United States In The 20th Century 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	My rating: