Franklin D. Roosevelt

Since 1897, when Grover Cleveland left office after his second term as President of the United States, eight other Democrats have been elected to ...

Profiles of 12 men who have run for the presidency and lost, but who, even in defeat, have had a greater impact on American history than many of those who have served as president....

Before hundreds of major leaguers went off to war, they enjoyed one final season in the sun....

Johnson explores the trend of militarism that is bankrupting the United States and creating conditions for a new century of virulent blowback....

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....

FDR was in the White House and the new teen idol was Frank Sinatra. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and America was in the war....

Between 1942 and 1945, the U.S. government wrongfully imprisoned thousands of Japanese American citizens and profited from their labor. Japanese American Incarceration recasts the forced removal and incarceration of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II....

Last Call is capacious, meticulous, and thrillingly told. It stands as the most complete history of Prohibition ever written and confirms Daniel Okrent's rank as a major American writer....

Many believe that despite its destructive character, war boosts long-term economic growth. For the United States this view is often supported by appeal to the experience of the Second World War. Alexander Field shows that between 1941 and 1945 manufacturing productivity actually declined....

The three chief Allied nations of World War II attempted to formulate a joint policy through a series of three conferences during and immediately after the conflict....

JFK, Conservative is sure to appeal to conservative readers - and will force liberals to reconsider one of their icons....

Six Time Patrol agents are sent to the same day, February 14, in six different years to keep our history and our time line from being destroyed....

No two public figures were more crucial in the drama of race relations in this era than Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy. Fifty years after they were both murdered, noted journalist David Margolick explores the untold story....

New York Times bestselling author Sally Bedell Smith takes us inside the Kennedy White House with unparalleled access and insight....

Oligarchy is a threat to the American republic. When too much economic and political power is concentrated in too few hands, we risk losing the "republican form of government" the Constitution requires....

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 ...

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

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.

The plan was as idealistic as it was audacious - and utterly unprecedented. Take thousands of broke writers and put them to work charting a country on the brink of social and economic collapse, with the aim of producing a rich and beguiling series of guidebooks to the 48 states....

We The People and our government avatar, are a divided, contemptuous, hot mess. The bad news is that We The People, collectively, chose this through inaction, ignorance, tolerance, letting others make all the choices, and even direct votes....