Franklin D. Roosevelt

On December 7, 1941, the nation of Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and prompted the United States’ entry into the bloodiest war in human history....

This is a sympathetic but unblinking portrait of a marriage and of a woman whose passion and commitment has inspired generations of Americans to seek a decent future....

Twenty-five years ago, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss dazzled the world with a provocative new theory of American history. Looking back at the last 500 years, they’d uncovered a distinct pattern: modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting roughly 80 to 100 years....

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

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

A Team of Rivals for World War II - the inside story of how FDR and the towering personalities around him waged war in the corridors of Washington, DC, to secure ultimate victory on the battlefields of Europe and the Pacific....

Desperate to find someone to unite the battling interests of General Douglas MacArthur, Admiral Chester Nimitz, and OSS Chief "Wild Bill" Donovan, President Franklin D. Roosevelt puts Fleming Pickering in charge of the OSS’s Pacific operations....

Here is a gripping account of the major postwar trial of the Nazi hierarchy in World War II....

Brinkley traces FDR's love for the natural world from his youth exploring the Hudson River Valley and bird-watching....

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

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....

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....

Goodwin describes the broken friendship between Teddy Roosevelt and his chosen successor, William Howard Taft....

David Greenberg recounts the rise of the White House spin machine, from Teddy Roosevelt to Barack Obama....

FDR Goes to War expands on the premise that FDR's legacy has damaged America and helped lay the groundwork for the current economic crisis....

Historian Marc Wortman thrillingly explores the little-known history of America's clandestine involvement in World War II before the attack on Pearl Harbor....

The Best and the Brightest reckons magnificently with the most important abiding question of our country's recent history: Why did America become mired in Vietnam, and why did we lose? Find out....

This great question of Pearl Harbor - what did we know and when did we know it? - has been argued for years. But...

Curtis Roosevelt knew what it was like to live with a president. His grandfather was Franklin Delano Roosevelt....

In this powerful narrative, author John Kelly chronicles the turbulent wartime relationship between Britain, America, and the Soviet Union with a unique focus on unknown and unexplored aspects of the story....