Franklin D. Roosevelt

In Greenback Planet, H. W. Brands charts the dollar's rise to become the world's principal currency. Telling the story with the verve of a novelist, he recounts episodes in US monetary history, from the Civil War debate over fiat money (greenbacks) to the recent financial crisis....

The Golden Age is a vibrant tapestry of American political and cultural life from 1939 to 1954, when the epochal events of World War II and the Cold War transformed America...

A powerful history of the making and unmaking of American democracy and global power, told in sweeping scope and intimate detail....

In the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Admiral Husband Kimmel, commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet, was relieved of command and accused of negligence and dereliction of duty....

From the veteran political journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent, a deep dive into the history, evolution, and current state of the American presidency - and how we can make the job less impossible and more productive....

Amity Shlaes offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. Rejecting the old emphasis on the New Deal, she turns to the neglected stories of individual Americans....

John Milton Cooper, Jr., is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s preeminent Woodrow Wilson biographers....

The Darkest Year focuses on Americans’ state of mind not only through what they said, but in the day-to-day details of their behavior. William K. Klingaman blends these psychological effects with the changes the war wrought in American society and culture....

Today when you factor in the interest on the national debt from past wars and total defense expenditures the United States spends almost 40% of its federal budget on the military....

Who are the Kennedys....

Veteran journalist Scott Martelle provides a gripping narrative retelling of that vitally significant year as social and political systems struggled under the weight of the devastating Dust Bowl, economic woes, rising political protests, and growing demand for the repeal of Prohibition....

In this Pulitzer Prize - winning biography, Barbara Tuchman explores American relations with China through the experiences of one of our men on the ground....

Like every other prospering democracy, the United States developed a mixed economy that channeled the spirit of capitalism into strong growth and healthy social development....

In the months that followed Franklin Roosevelt's election in November 1940 to an unprecedented third term in the White House, he confronted a worldwide military and moral catastrophe. Almost all the European democracies had fallen under the onslaught of the Nazi army and air force....

Frederick Lewis Allen combines an eye for the significant trivia of everyday existence with a facility....

This spirited reexamination of American history delves into our past to expose hundreds of startling facts that never made it into the textbooks, and highlights how little-known people and events played surprisingly influential roles in the great American story....

The Prize is as much a history of the 20th-century as of the oil industry itself....

Through Professor Lichtman's eyes we see these 12 great leaders as they really were, contradictions and paradoxes included....

Fast-paced, suspenseful, and utterly satisfying, The Demon Under the Microscope is a sweeping history of the discovery of the first antibiotic and its dramatic effect on the world....

From the best-selling author of Nixonland and The Invisible Bridge comes the dramatic conclusion of how conservatism took control of American political power....