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Theodore Roosevelt is best remembered as the "cowboy" president - a Rough Rider who derived his political wisdom from a youth in the untamed American West....

In The Simple Faith of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, religion journalist and author Christine Wicker establishes that faith was at the heart of everything Roosevelt wanted....

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.

American Maelstrom captures the full drama of the watershed election of 1968, establishing this year as the hinge between the decline of political liberalism....

He’s the president with the asterisk by his name: Richard Milhous Nixon, the only US president to resign. But Richard Nixon’s legacy is much more complicated than Watergate. His is the classic story of a young man who rose from his humble roots to achieve power and influence....

Carlo D'Este's brilliant biography examines Winston Churchill through the prism of his military service as both a soldier and a warlord....

In 1940, against the explosive backdrop of the Nazi onslaught in Europe, two farsighted candidates for the U.S. presidency....

The mercurial, self-mythologizing novelist and journalist Joseph Roth, author of the twentieth-century masterpiece The Radetzky March, was the finest observer and chronicler of his age. Endless Flight travels with Roth from his childhood to an unsettled life spent roaming Europe between the wars....

As America struggles with an economic debacle akin to the Great Depression, nothing could be timelier than an authoritative account of the New Deal....

We all know of Theodore Roosevelt being the US president from 1901 to 1909, an American politician, statesman, soldier, conservationist, and naturalist. But few know of him being an acclaimed historian. Roosevelt’s The Winning of the West quickly became a bestseller....

A new biography of Winston Churchill reveals how his relationships with the other great figures of his age shaped his own triumphs and failures as a leader....

Before Teddy Roosevelt earned his reputation as a strong, masculine hunter, explorer, and Rough Rider, he actually endured a sickly childhood....

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

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

In a striking reinterpretation of the postwar years, Robert Dallek examines what drove the leaders of the most powerful and populous nations around the globe....

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....

Rose Gallagher is finally coming into her own. She's the proud owner of a lovely little home near Washington Square, where she lives with her mother and friend Pietro, and she's making a name for herself as a Pinkerton agent with a specialty in things...otherworldly....

Few people outside of South Carolina are familiar with the name of, much less the role, James F. Byrnes played in shaping 20th century America. He ...

White presents a clear and concise analysis of how the modern Republican Party came to be by tracing historical patterns that reach back to the 1930s. He argues that the rise of Republican authoritarianism has been decades in the making....

As Jeremey and Emmet find their feet at The Roosevelt, they begin to believe they can be loved for the men they are beyond their disabilities....