Congratulations, Rick!

Irondequoit High School grad earns prestigious award
Irondequoit, N.Y. — Irondequoit can claim a 2008 National Medal of Humanities recipient.Richard “Rick” Brookhiser was in the East Room of the White House Monday as one of 10 recipients of the prestigious medal, presented by President Bush and first lady Laura Bush.
Brookhiser is a 1973 graduate of . [sic] His father, Robert J. Brookhiser, still resides in Irondequoit.
“I knew he was going down there (to Washington, D.C.) for something,” his father said Tuesday afternoon.
Rick Brookhiser, senior editor of the National Review in New York, is a journalist, biographer and historian.
He was recognized with the National Medal of Humanities “for helping reintroduce Americans to the personalities, eccentricities, and noble ideals of our Founding Fathers. His works of biography and history have rendered vivid and accessible portraits of the early days of the Republic.”
Brookhiser has written books titled “Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington,” “Alexander Hamilton, American,” “America’s First Dynasty: The Adamses of Massachusetts,” and “Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution.”
Most recently, his book “What Would the Founders Do: Our Questions, Their Answers,” came out in 2007, and “George Washington on Leadership” was released earlier this year.
He also wrote and narrated the film “The Character of George Washington,” which aired on PBS in 2002. He’s currently filming one about Alexander Hamilton.
Brookhiser was also a columnist for the New York Observer from 1987 to 2006. He has also written for The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, Atlantic Monthly, Time, and Vanity Fair.