H. W. Brands

From master storyteller and New York Times best-selling biographer H. W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes the first full life of Ronald Reagan since his death....

In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West.... 

From best-selling historian H. W. Brands comes a richly textured history of one of the most fascinating and colorful eras in U.S. history: the Texas Revolution and the forging of a new America....

The riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II....

Lauded as "a rip-roaring life" (Wall Street Journal), T.R. is a magisterial biography of Theodore Roosevelt by best-selling author H. W. Brands. In his time, there was no more popular national figure than Roosevelt....

With sweep, passion, and attention to detail, historian H.W. Brands shapes a historical narrative that's as fast-paced and compelling as the best fiction....

When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill on the American River, it completely transformed the territory of California....

Founding Partisans is a lively narrative of the early years of the republic as the Founding Fathers fought one another with competing visions of what our nation would be. To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were an existential threat to republican virtues....

Master storyteller and best-selling historian H. W. Brands narrates the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln - two men moved to radically different acts to confront our nation’s gravest sin....

William Tecumseh Sherman and Geronimo were keen strategists and bold soldiers, ruthless with their enemies. Over the course of the 1870s and 1880s these two war chiefs would confront each other in the final battle for what the American West would be....

Traitor to His Class brilliantly captures the qualities that have made FDR a beloved figure to millions of Americans....

Traitor to His Class brilliantly captures the qualities that have made FDR a beloved figure to millions of Americans....

What causes people to forsake their country and take arms against it? What prompts their neighbors, hardly distinguishable in station or success, to defend that country against the rebels?  That is the question H. W. Brands answers....

From New York Times best-selling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice....

A sweeping chronicle of how a few wealthy businessmen reshaped America from a land of small farmers and small businessmen into an industrial giant....

A best-selling historian's gripping account of the powerful men who controlled America's financial destiny. From the first days of the United States, a battle raged over money....

From New York Times best-selling historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how, in 19th-century America, a new set of political giants battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the future of our democracy....

From best-selling historian H. W. Brands comes a richly textured history of one of the most fascinating and colorful eras in U.S. history: the Texas Revolution and the forging of a new America....

Though he was a hero of the Revolutionary War and vice president of the United States, Aaron Burr is today best remembered as the villain who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel....

Even before he was shot dead on the stairway of the tony Grand Central Hotel in 1872, financier James “Jubilee Jim” Fisk, Jr., was a notorious New York City figure....