Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

There's a crisis of trust in politics across the Western world. Public anger is rising, and faith in conventional political leaders and parties is falling. Antipolitics has arrived....

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

Family memoirs and previously unpublished material provide the backdrop for this poignant portrait of a man whose heroic idealism inspired a nation....

Few men have played such a critical role in the most pivotal events of the second half of the 20th century....

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....

From award-winning New York Times reporter Sam Roberts, the story of the world’s most exceptional city, told through 31 little-known yet pivotal inhabitants who helped define it....

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....

At a critical moment in Jimmy Carter’s presidency, he gave a speech that should have changed the country. Instead it led to his downfall....

For decades, James MacGregor Burns has been one of the great masters of the study of power and leadership in America....

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

An award-winning presidential historian offers an authoritative account of American presidents' attacks on our freedom of the press....

Here is a brilliant and brilliantly entertaining tour de force of American politics from one of journalism's most acclaimed commentators.....

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....

"Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan"....

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

Liberty was not a privilege afforded to a few. It was to be extended to build a life worth living....

This is not just another book about Pearl Harbor. It is the story of Joseph Grew, America’s ambassador to Japan, and his frantic effort in the months before the Pearl Harbor attack to orchestrate an agreement between Japan and the United States to avoid the war....

Among America's presidents, Harry Truman's presidency produced some of the nation's most crucial decisions and left one of the nation's most unique legacies....

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....