Franklin D. Roosevelt

This compiles 41 of President Franklin Roosevelt's speeches during his Presidential terms (1933-1945) as the 32nd president of the United States. The speeches including his inaugural addresses, various states of the union and many of his fireside chats....

A fascinating chronicle of how the character of American society revealed itself under the duress of World War II....

The common man around the globe lost the day John F. Kennedy died. This book details the story and the struggle, in a way never told before, of a man with the courage to repeatedly take on the most powerful forces on the globe....

First ladies are supposed to be dignified background figures, quietly supportive of their husbands' agendas. Above all, they're not supposed to act out or cause even a whiff of scandal. Of course, reality often overrides conventional wisdom....

The Greatest Speeches of All Time is a collection of the most important and well-known speeches of modern times by US presidents, politicians, and other historical icons....

A fast-paced inside account of the breakneck speed with which President Obama began making critical decisions and assuming the burdens of office....

The most comprehensive biography of Barry Goldwater ever written is back by popular demand with a new foreword by Phyllis Schlafly and an updated introduction by the author....

As the oldest political party in the United States, a diverse range of people and ideas have been embraced by the Democratic Party over two centuries....

The Cold War dominated international life from the end of World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. But how did the conflict begin? And why, after lasting so long, did the war end so suddenly and unexpectedly? Robert McMahon considers these questions and more....

Gold has influenced American monetary policy and has exerted an irrational influence on the national psyche for centuries....

In the days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, America was largely focused on the war in Europe, but when planes dropped out of a clear blue sky and bombed the American naval base and aerial targets in Hawaii, everything changed in an instant....

A witty, candid story of a daring young man who made his way to the heights of American journalism and public life....

In this engaging, fast-paced biography, Louis Galambos follows the career of Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower, offering new insight into this singular man who guided America toward consensus at home and a peaceful victory in the Cold War.

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

Personality expert Merrick Rosenberg and coauthor Richard Ellis have developed an unprecedented system that reveals the pattern of who takes the White House and why....

In a series of fascinating interviews, today's best and brightest historians weigh in on the crucial moments in American history....

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....

An extraordinary work of history and original reporting that reveals the ways in which presidential marriages have affected the tone, character, and policies of twelve administrations, from Woodrow and Edith Wilson to George W. and Laura Bush....

Few US presidents have captured the imagination of the American people as has Harry S. Truman. In this biography, Robert H. Ferrell challenges the popular characterization of Truman....