Franklin D. Roosevelt

There has been no complete biography like this one. Jack deals with the full scope of Kennedy's life - his family, his friends, his infidelities....

With the beach landings of June 6th in the greatest amphibious assault ever seen the final phase of the war had begun....

Blanche Wiesen Cook recreates Eleanor Roosevelt in all of her roles -- as a visionary, an activist, a political wife, and a woman far more independent than we knew....

This fascinating, behind-the-scenes history of postwar Washington is a rich and colorful portrait of the close-knit group of journalists, spies, and government officials who waged the Cold War over cocktails....

Project President tells the story of America's love affair with presidential looks and appearance, why that often matters more than a politico's positions on the issues, and what might well be coming next....

This book deals with American history since 1880—a period when the United States was transformed from a relatively small, remote, and isolated ...

This concise, accessible text provides students with a history of American constitutional development in the context of political, economic, and social change. Constitutional historian Michael Benedict stresses the role that the American people have played over time....

Franklin D. Roosevelt led the American people through the two major crises of modern times....

In another unrelenting look at the iniquities of the American justice system, Lawrence Goldstone examines the history of racism against Japanese Americans, exploring the territory of citizenship and touching on fears of non-white immigration to the US—with hauntingly contemporary echoes.

The fascinating true story of how a group of visionary attorneys helped make American business synonymous with big business and Wall Street the center of the financial world....

The death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1945 sent shock waves around the world. His lifelong physician swore that the president had always been a picture of health....

This book presents a comprehensive history of the existential war waged between the Anglo-Dutch imperial system and what became known as the ...

Subtitled "British Covert Operations in the United States, 1939-44," Mahl's account brings together bits and pieces of a story that has been told before together with the best research and documentation...

William F. Buckley Jr. is widely regarded as the most influential American conservative writer, activist, and organizer in the postwar era....

This young readers’ edition from best-selling author and Fox News anchor Bret Baier dives into the first of the secret World War II meetings between President Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin, which would shape the world for decades to come....

All too frequently leadership is reduced to a simple dichotomy: the strong versus the weak....

Historian Sean Wilentz presents two key insights that together reveal a clearer, much-needed vision of American political history....

This erudite volume offers an abbreviated, accessible, and lively narrative history of the United States....

For over a quarter century, George C. Wallace dominated the political scene in Alabama, like no other politician in the state's history. On four ...

In 1893 a small group of white planters and missionary descendants backed by the United States overthrew the Kingdom of Hawai'i and established a government modeled on the Jim Crow South....