Franklin D. Roosevelt

A landmark collection, spanning 90 years of U.S. history, of the never-before-published diaries of George F. Kennan, America’s most famous diplomat....

If you think of our 34th president as little more than the babysitter-in-chief during the prosperous fifties, think again....

One hundred years after his inauguration, Woodrow Wilson still stands as one of the most influential figures of the 20th century, and one of the most enigmatic....

Professor Vincent J. Cannato delivers a definitive history of America's landmark port of entry....

This Splash Read collection includes 19 historical fiction short stories about US Presidents. Each story introduces an influential person from history. Stories discuss life skills, challenges, problem-solving, and important issues....

From New York Times bestselling author Molly Guptill Manning comes The War of Words, the captivating story of how American soldiers in World War II wielded pens to encourage the entire army and inspire a nation....

A historian's revealing and intimate portrait of George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush that explores their relationship as presidents and as father and son....

Fiorello LaGuardia was one of the twentieth century's most colorful politicians—on the New York and national stage. He was also quintessentially American: the son of Italian immigrants, who rose in society through sheer will and chutzpah.

Robert H. Jackson was one of the giants of the Roosevelt era: an Attorney General, a still revered Supreme Court Justice and, not least important, one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's close friends and advisers....

Grover Cleveland is truly the forgotten conservative: a man of dignity, integrity, and courage often overlooked by the history books....

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....

“If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.” So said Abraham Lincoln ...

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....

Ike in Love and War shows the hidden sacrifices that made Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower remarkable. It probes the mission that was driving him: the quest to reconcile his skill as a fighter with his mother's pacifism, which led him to become the greatest peacekeeper of his age....

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....

When James Forrestal resigned as secretary of defense in March 1949 before apparently committing suicide (arguably the highest ranking US government official to do so), he left in his office a large accumulation of files and papers. Among them was a private record....

Richard Langlois offers a comprehensive and nuanced reframing and reassessment of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial era.

They are three brothers, all navy men, who end up coincidentally and extraordinarily at the epicenter of three of the war's most crucial moments....

In 1991, the United States Army trounced the Iraqi army in battle only to stumble blindly into postwar turmoil....

Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents, Part 1 profiles America's early presidents, from George Washington to William Howard Taft....