Doug Brown
Cognoscenti contributor
Douglas S. Brown is a partner with Manatt Health with over 35 years of senior leadership experience in law, medicine and government. A collector of rare books on early America, he serves on the governing council of the American Antiquarian Society.
Recently published
Why 'history is more thrilling than any romance'
Doug Brown collects rare books on early America. But he recently acquired a desk that once belonged to Constance Miekevicz (nee Gore-Booth), an Irish revolutionary and suffragist. He was inspired...
In April 1775, Isaiah Thomas snuck his printing press out of Boston. The rest is history
On April 16, 1775, Isaiah Thomas, a revolutionary patriot and printer of the radical Boston newspaper, The Massachusetts Spy, snuck his printing press out of Boston under the cover of...