Dan Rottenberg

Who is Dan Rottenberg?

Dan Rottenberg is an author, editor and journalist. He has been the chief editor of seven publications, most recently Broad Street Review, an independent cultural arts website he launched in December 2005. He is also the author of ten books, most recently Death of a Gunfighter, published in 2008 by Westholme Publishing.

His previous books include Finding Our Fathers, a guide to tracing Jewish ancestors; Fight On, Pennsylvania, a college football history; Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen, the history of a Philadelphia law firm; Main Line Wasp, the memoirs of Philadelphia civic leader W. Thacher Longstreth; Revolution on Wall Street, a chronicle of the securities industry; Middletown Jews, an oral history of the Jews of Muncie, Indiana; The Inheritor’s Handbook; The Man Who Made Wall Street, a biography of the 19th-Century banker Anthony Drexel, and In the Kingdom of Coal, a narrative history of the U.S. coal industry as seen through the eyes of two families.

From 2000 to 2004 he was editor of Family Business, an international quarterly magazine dealing with family-owned companies.