Franklin D. Roosevelt

By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power the world had ever seen, a booming American nation that he had steered through some of the most perilous diplomatic standoffs of the Cold War....

In No End Save Victory, esteemed historian David Kaiser draws on extensive archival research to reveal the careful preparations that enabled the United States to win World War II....

Hailed by critics as an American masterpiece, David McCullough's sweeping biography of Harry S Truman captured the heart of the nation...

For far too long, American history has been left in the unreliable hands of those that author Donald Jeffries refers to as the court historians. American Crimes and Cover-Ups: 1776-1963 fights back by scrutinizing the accepted history of everything....

The extraordinary career of George Catlett Marshall - America’s most distinguished soldier - statesman since George Washington - whose selfless leadership and moral character influenced the course of two world wars and helped define the American century....

From the author of the best-selling One Minute to Midnight, a riveting account of the pivotal six-month period spanning the end of World War II, the dawn of the nuclear age, and the beginning of the Cold War....

From the prize-winning journalist and internationally recognized expert on corruption in government networks throughout the world comes a major work that looks homeward to America, exploring the insidious, dangerous networks of corruption of our past, present, and precarious future....

From two of America's most revered political journalists comes the definitive biography of legendary White House chief of staff and secretary of state James A. Baker III: the man who ran Washington when Washington ran the world....

An Unfinished Life describes the birth of the Kennedy dynasty...

In this classic portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower the soldier, best-selling historian Stephen E. Ambrose examines the Allied commander's leadership during World War II....

Nothing to Fear is both a riveting account of the personal dynamics that shaped the heady hundred days and a character study of one of America's defining leaders in a moment of crisis....

The relationship between Al Smith and Franklin Roosevelt, portrayed in Terry Golway's Frank and Al, is one of the most dramatic untold stories of early 20th-century American politics....

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

A brilliant new account of Richard Nixon that reveals the riveting backstory to the red state/blue state resentments that divide our nation today....

Hick's bond with Eleanor is tested by forces both extraordinary and common, and as she grows as a woman and a writer, she never loses sight of the love of her life....

In Paul Krugman, the world's most widely read economist and one of its most influential political commentators, charts the way to reform of American politics....

When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for "a new Bretton Woods" to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict....

Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman offer an intriguing portrait of a consummate politician struggling with opposing priorities under perilous conditions....

Virtually all Americans above a certain age hold strong opinions about Douglas MacArthur....

Best-selling author Richard Reeves provides an authoritative account of the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese aliens during World War II....