Sökt på: Sökresultat
totalt 15 träffar
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A brilliant evocation of one of the greatest presidents in American history by the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our …
The Money Men
Most Americans are familiar with the political history of the United States, but there is another history woven all through it, a largely forgotten history—the story of the money …
Our First Civil War
"Americans tend to forget that we have always been at war with one another--even in the beginning.... Brands tells the story of the American Revolution as it really unfolded--as a …
The Zealot and the Emancipator
Gifted storyteller and bestselling historian H. W. Brands narrates the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln--two men moved to radically …
The Reckless Decade
Just as we do today, Americans of the 1890s faced changes in economics, politics, society, and technology that led to wrenching and sometimes violent tensions between rich and …
The Louisiana Purchase and American Expansion, 1803–1898
The 1803 purchase of the Louisiana Territory was a watershed event for the fledgling United States. Adding some 829,000 square miles of territory, the Louisiana Purchase set a …
The Last Campaign
The Wages of Globalism
Historian H.W. Brands offers a fresh look at Johnson's handling of international relations, putting Vietnam in the context of the many crises he confronted and the outdated …
The Use of Force after the Cold War
The end of the Cold War created a near-euphoria that nations might rely less on military force and that the Doomsday nuclear clock night stop short of midnight. Events soon dashed …
Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics
From bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands, a revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States. …
The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield: A Tragedy of the Gilded Age
The two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War traces the extraordinary downfall of financier Jubilee Jim, bringing to life New …
Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution
"A fast-paced, often riveting account of the military and political events leading up to the Declaration of Independence and those that followed during the war ... Brands does his …