Franklin D. Roosevelt

James C. Klotter uses new research and offers a more focused, nuanced explanation of Henry Clay's programs and politics in order to answer the question of why the man they called "The Great Rejected" never won the presidency but did win the accolades of history....

Embark on a riveting journey through the lives and legacies of five of the most pivotal figures in American history with "US Presidents 5 Books in 1: Biographies of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Harry Truman."

This is a sympathetic but unblinking portrait of a marriage and of a woman whose passion and commitment has inspired generations of Americans to seek a decent future....

The best-selling author of Overthrow and The Brothers brings to life the forgotten political debate that set America's interventionist course in the world for the 20th century and beyond....

Franklin D. Roosevelt famously called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." History would prove him correct....

Enemies is the first definitive history of the FBI’s secret intelligence operations....

The definitive biography of Herbert Hoover, one of the most remarkable Americans of the 20th century - a revisionist account that will forever change the way Americans understand the man....

A unique and illuminating exploration of the key relationships that shaped Franklin Delano Roosevelt into one of America's most definitive leaders and impacted his influence on the world stage, from the acclaimed author of Lincoln's Mentors

Academics, journalists, and popular historians agree: our greatest presidents are the ones who confronted a national crisis and mobilized the entire nation to face it....

Esteemed Harvard University historian and Associate Fellow Kathleen Dalton has been studying Theodore Roosevelt since 1975....

The Scottish-born son of a failed weaver and a mother who supported the family by binding shoes, Andrew Carnegie was the embodiment of the American dream....

It's time to revisit 1945 and the final days World War II in a way that no one else ever has....

Few have ever enjoyed the degree of foreign-policy influence and versatility that Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. did....

The Hopkins Touch offers the first portrait in over two decades of the most powerful man in Roosevelt's administration....

Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt’s marriage is one of the most celebrated and scrutinized partnerships in presidential history....

The dramatic, untold story of how the American Army was mobilized from scattered outposts two years before Pearl Harbor into the disciplined and mobile fighting force that helped win World War II....

An “epic and intimate” (David M. Kennedy) portrait of four generations of the Morgenthau family, a dynasty of power brokers and public officials with an outsize—and previously unmapped—influence extending from daily life in New York City to the shaping of the American Century....

In What It Took to Win, the eminent historian Michael Kazin identifies and assesses the Democratic Party's long-running commitment to creating "moral capitalism" - a system that mixed entrepreneurial freedom with the welfare of workers and consumers....

Michael Beschloss' dramatic and inspiring saga explores crucial times when courageous presidents changed the history of the United States....

In these 12 inspiring lectures, Professor Fears presents a well-balanced portrait of Churchill that does not whitewash his flaws. Yet he also draws on the most recent historical scholarship and material from Churchill's writings and speeches....