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Traitor to His Class
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 22.00NATIONAL BESTSELLER A brilliant evocation of the qualities that made FDR one of the most beloved and greatest of American presidents. Drawing on archival material, public speeches, correspondence and accounts by those closest to Roosevelt early in his career and during his presidency, H. W. Brands shows how Roosevelt transformed American government... more...
That Man
Oxford University Press, USA 2003; US$ 19.99Robert H. Jackson was one of the giants of the Roosevelt era: an Attorney General, a still revered Supreme Court Justice and, not least important, one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's close friends and advisers. His intimate memoir of FDR, written in the early 1950s before Jackson's untimely death, has remained unpublished for fifty years. Here... more...
Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 30.00The first book to explore the remarkable political alliance and often volatile friendship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson. more...
FDR, Dewey, and the Election of 1944
Indiana University Press 2011; US$ 18.99Although the presidential election of 1944 placed FDR in the White House for an unprecedented fourth term, historical memory of the election itself has been overshadowed by the war, Roosevelt?s health and his death the following April, Truman's ascendancy, and the decision to drop the atomic bomb. Today most people assume that FDR?s reelection was... more...
FDR and Lucy
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 26.95Drawing on documents from the Roosevelt Presidential Library as well as visits to Lucy's homes, this is the first book to delve into this hidden side of FDR's life - his thirty-one year affair with his mistress Lucy Mercer. more...
Hard Times
New Press, The 2011; US$ 17.95In this unique recreation of one of the most dramatic periods in modern American history, Studs Terkel recaptures the Great Depression of the 1930s in all its complexity. featuring a mosaic of memories from politicians, businessmen, artists, and writers, from those who were just kids to those who remember losing a fortune, Hard Times is not only... more...
The Triumph of Internationalism
Potomac Books Inc. 2007; US$ 19.95A concise history of American foreign policy from the Great Depression to the eve of World War II more...
Lindbergh vs. Roosevelt
Regnery Publishing 2010; US$ 29.95Was aviation pioneer and popular American hero Charles A. Lindbergh a Nazi sympathizer and anti-Semite? Or was he the target of a vicious personal vendetta by President Roosevelt? In Lindbergh vs. Roosevelt , author James Duffy tackles these questions head-on, by examining the conflicting personalities, aspirations, and actions of Franklin D. Roosevelt... more...
Hard Times
New Press, The 2012; US$ 21.95First published in 1970, Studs Terkel?s bestselling Hard Times has been called ?a huge anthem in praise of the American spirit? (Saturday Review) and ?an invaluable record? (The New York Times) . With his trademark grace and compassion, Terkel evokes a mosaic of memories from those who were richest to those who were destitute: politicians, businessmen,... more...
FDR Goes to War
Threshold Editions 2011; US$ 16.00From the acclaimed author of New Deal or Raw Deal? , called eye-opening by the National Review , comes a fascinating expos of Franklin Delano Roosevelts destructive wartime legacyand its adverse impact on Americas economic and foreign policies today. Did World War II really end the Great Depressionor did President Franklin Roosevelts poor judgment... more...









