Darrin M. McMahon
American historian and author
Darrin M. McMahon is an American historian who teaches at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Happiness: A History.
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American Born in Carmel-by-the-Sea, United States
About Darrin M. McMahon
Darrin M. McMahon was born in 1965 and is an American historian, author and public speaker. He is a professor of history at Dartmouth College, where he holds the title of Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor of History. Before moving to Dartmouth, he was Ben Weider Professor at Florida State University. He trained as a historian of France. He began his book career with Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity, a study of French resistance to the Enlightenment's legacy in the 18th and 19th centuries. He later wrote Happiness: A History (2006) and Divine Fury: A History of Genius (2013). His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.