Dan Rottenberg (born June 10, 1942) 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 and edited for eight years. He is also the author of 11 books, most recently The Outsider: Albert M. Greenfield and the Fall of the Protestant Establishment, published in 2014 by Temple University Press.
His previous books include Death of a Gunfighter, a biography of the Pony Express superintendent Jack Slade (Westholme, 2008); Finding Our Fathers, a guide to tracing Jewish ancestors (Random House, 1977); Fight On, Pennsylvania, a college football history (1985); Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen, the history of a Philadelphia law firm (1988); Main Line Wasp, the memoirs of Philadelphia civic leader W. Thacher Longstreth (W.W. Norton, 1990); Revolution on Wall Street, a chronicle of the securities industry (W.W. Norton, 1993); Middletown Jews, an oral history of the Jews of Muncie, Indiana (Indiana U. Press, 1997); The Inheritor’s Handbook (Bloomberg Press, 1998); The Man Who Made Wall Street, a biography of the 19th-Century banker Anthony Drexel (U. of Pennsylvania Press, 2001), and In the Kingdom of Coal, a narrative history of the U.S. coal industry as seen through the eyes of two families (Routledge, 2003).