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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 …
American Dreams
The story of our nation from the A-bomb to the iPhone-from bestselling historian H.W. Brands With keen insight and an impeccable sense of the spirit of the times, H. W. Brands, …
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 …
Dreams of El Dorado
In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West, from Lewis and Clark's expedition in the early 19th century to the …
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 …
Traitor to His Class
NATIONAL BESTSELLERA brilliant evocation of the qualities that made FDR one of the most beloved and greatest of American presidents. Drawing on archival material, public speeches, …
The Last Campaign
Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921
A noted historian offers a definitive account of the administration of Woodrow Wilson, detailing Wilson's unusual route to the White House, his campaign against corporate …