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Age of Rooseveltby A.M. SchlesingerISBN 0395083885 (0-395-08388-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The American People in World War II: Freedom from Fearby David M. KennedyISBN 0195168933 (0-19-516893-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American People in World War II: Freedom from Fear'Book summary:Even as the New Deal was coping with the Depression, a new menace was developing abroad. Exploiting Germany's own economic burdens, Hitler reached out to the disaffected, turning their aimless discontent into loyal support for his Nazi Party. In Asia, Japan harbored imperial ambitions of its own. The same generation of Americans who battled the Depression eventually had to shoulder arms in another conflict that wreaked worldwide destruction, ushered in the nuclear age, and forever changed their way of life and their country's relationship to the rest of the world.
The American People in World War II--the second installment of Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning Freedom from Fear--explains how the nation agonized over its role in the conflict, how it fought the war, why the United States emerged victorious, and why the consequences of victory were sometimes sweet, sometimes ironic. In a compelling narrative, Kennedy analyzes the determinants of American strategy, the painful choices faced by commanders and statesmen, and the agonies inflicted on the millions of ordinary Americans who were compelled to swallow their fears and face battle as best they could. The American People in World War II is a gripping narrative and an invaluable analysis of the trials and victories through which modern America was formed. [via]More editions of The American People in World War II: Freedom from Fear:
American Workers, American Unionsby Robert H. ZiegerISBN 0801849446 (0-8018-4944-6)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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American Workers, American Unions: The Twentieth Centuryby Gilbert J. Gall, Robert H. ZiegerISBN 080187078X (0-8018-7078-X)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Workers, American Unions: The Twentieth Century'Book summary:Highly acclaimed and widely read, American Workers, American Unions (first published in 1986, revised ed. 1994) provides a concise and compelling history of American workers and their unions in twentieth-century America. This new edition features new chapters on the pre1920 period, as well as an entirely new final chapter that covers developments of the 1980s and 1990s in detail. There the authors explore how economic change, union stagnation, and antilabor policies have combined to erode workers' standards and labor's influence in the political arena over the last two decades. They review current "alternatives to unionism" as means of achieving fair workplace representations but insist that strong unions remain essential in a democratic society. They argue that labor's new responsiveness to the concerns of women, minority groups, and low-wage workers, as well as its resurgent political activism, offer new hope for trade unionism. Also included in this third edition is new bibliographical material and a regularly updated on-line link to an extended bibliographical essay.
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American Workers, American Unions, 1920-1985by Robert H. ZiegerISBN 0801831288 (0-8018-3128-8)
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Autoworkby Robert Asher, Ronald EdsforthISBN 0791424103 (0-7914-2410-3)
Softcover, State Univ of New York Pr
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Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt 1882-1905by Geoffrey C. WardISBN 0831758716 (0-8317-5871-6)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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Beloved Island: Franklin & Eleanor and the Legacy of Campobelloby Jonas Klein, George MitchellISBN 0839710364 (0-8397-1036-4)
Softcover, Eriksson Publisher, Paul S.
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By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americansby Greg RobinsonISBN 067401118X (0-674-01118-X)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Character above All: Ten Presidents from FDR to George Bushby Robert A. WilsonISBN 0684827093 (0-684-82709-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Commander in Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, His Lieutenants, and Their Warby Eric LarrabeeISBN 1591144558 (1-59114-455-8)
Softcover, Naval Inst Pr
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The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945by Michael R. BeschlossISBN 0743244540 (0-7432-4454-0)
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Drawing on thousands of previously unreleased documents, secret audio recordings, private diaries, and other information recently made available, Beschloss details the complex diplomacy between the Allied leaders, including their differences over whether to demand Germany's unconditional surrender; how, if at all, to divide Germany after the war; and how to effectively punish Germany without creating the kind of resentment that led to the rise of Hitler. The relationship between the three leaders, and later, Truman, is fascinating, as Beschloss reveals private conversations, ulterior motives, and numerous back-channel deals that took place. Of particular interest is the maneuvering of Roosevelt and Churchill, who were both concerned that the Soviets would attempt a postwar power grab in Western Europe if given the chance. The book also deals with Roosevelt's reluctance to deal with Germany's systematic extermination of the Jews, and the role that his old friend and Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., played in pushing the President into action. After learning of the Holocaust, Morgenthau became obsessed with punishing Germany severely, drafting a plan that called for the complete destruction of their mines and factories as a way of forcing Germany into subsistence farming--ideas that put him at odds with Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Secretary of War Henry Stimson, and many others in the administration.
The Conquerors is a superbly written, if brief, treatment of the political events leading up to the defeat of Germany, with the main players brought vividly to life by Beschloss's keen eye for detail and his ability to expose the human strengths and weaknesses of the participants. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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The Crisis of the Old Order: 1919-1933, The Age of Rooseveltby Arthur M. SchlesingerISBN 0618340858 (0-618-34085-8)
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The Crisis of the Old Order: The Age of Roosevelt, 1919-1933by Arthur Meier SchlesingerISBN 0965381080 (0-9653810-8-0)
Hardcover, History Book Club
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The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919-1933by Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.ISBN 0395489032 (0-395-48903-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harborby Robert B. StinnettISBN 0743201299 (0-7432-0129-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor'Book summary:It was not long after the first Japanese bombs fell on the American naval ships at Pearl Harbor that conspiracy theories began to circulate, charging that Franklin Roosevelt and his chief military advisors knew of the impending attack well in advance. Robert Stinnett, who served in the U.S. Navy with distinction during World War II, examines recently declassified American documents and concludes that, far more than merely knowing of the Japanese plan to bomb Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt deliberately steered Japan into war with America.
Stinnett's argument draws on both circumstantial evidence--the fact, for example, that in September 1940 Roosevelt signed into law a measure providing for a two-ocean navy that would number 100 aircraft carriers--and, more importantly, on American governmental documents that offer apparently incontrovertible proof that Roosevelt knowingly sacrificed American lives in order to enter the war on the side of England. Although obviously troubled by his discovery of a systematic plan of deception on the part of the American government, Stinnett does not take deep issue with its outcome. Roosevelt, he writes, faced powerful opposition from isolationist forces, and, against them, the Pearl Harbor attack was "something that had to be endured in order to stop a greater evil--the Nazi invaders in Europe who had begun the Holocaust and were poised to invade England." Sure to excite discussion, Stinnett's book offers what may be the final word on the terrible matter of Pearl Harbor. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days And the Triumph of Hopeby Jonathan AlterISBN 0743246012 (0-7432-4601-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days And the Triumph of Hope'Book summary:This is the story of a political miracle -- the perfect match of man and moment. Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in March of 1933 as America touched bottom. Banks were closing everywhere. Millions of people lost everything. The Great Depression had caused a national breakdown. With the craft of a master storyteller, Jonathan Alter brings us closer than ever before to the Roosevelt magic. Facing the gravest crisis since the Civil War, FDR used his cagey political instincts and ebullient temperament in the storied first Hundred Days of his presidency to pull off an astonishing conjuring act that lifted the country and saved both democracy and capitalism.
Who was this man? To revive the nation when it felt so hopeless took an extraordinary display of optimism and self-confidence. Alter shows us how a snobbish and apparently lightweight young aristocrat was forged into an incandescent leader by his domineering mother; his independent wife; his eccentric top adviser, Louis Howe; and his ally-turned-bitter-rival, Al Smith, the Tammany Hall street fighter FDR had to vanquish to complete his preparation for the presidency.
"Old Doc Roosevelt" had learned at Warm Springs, Georgia, how to lift others who suffered from polio, even if he could not cure their paralysis, or his own. He brought the same talents to a larger stage. Derided as weak and unprincipled by pundits, Governor Roosevelt was barely nominated for president in 1932. As president-elect, he escaped assassination in Miami by inches, then stiffed President Herbert Hoover's efforts to pull him into cooperating with him to deal with a terrifying crisis. In the most tumultuous and dramatic presidential transition in history, the entire banking structure came tumbling down just hours before FDR's legendary "only thing we have to fear is fear itself" Inaugural Address.
In a major historical find, Alter unearths the draft of a radio speech in which Roosevelt considered enlisting a private army of American Legion veterans on his first day in office. He did not. Instead of circumventing Congress and becoming the dictator so many thought they needed, FDR used his stunning debut to experiment. He rescued banks, put men to work immediately, and revolutionized mass communications with pioneering press conferences and the first Fireside Chat. As he moved both right and left, Roosevelt's insistence on "action now" did little to cure the Depression, but he began to rewrite the nation's social contract and lay the groundwork for his most ambitious achievements, including Social Security.
From one of America's most respected journalists, rich in insights and with fresh documentation and colorful detail, this thrilling story of presidential leadership -- of what government is for -- resonates through the events of today. It deepens our understanding of how Franklin Delano Roosevelt restored hope and transformed America.
The Defining Moment will take its place among our most compelling works of political history. [via]
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Economic Aspects of New Deal Diplomacyby Lloyd C. GardnerISBN 0807054356 (0-8070-5435-6)
Hardcover, Beacon Press
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Eleanor & Franklinby Joseph P. LashISBN 0451165160 (0-451-16516-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Eleanor and Franklinby Joseph P. LashISBN 083179402X (0-8317-9402-X)
Hardcover, Smithmark Publishers, Incorporated
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Eleanor: The Years Aloneby Joseph P. LashISBN 0831756101 (0-8317-5610-1)
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F. D. R.: The New Deal Years, 1933-1937by Kenneth S. DavisISBN 0679761241 (0-679-76124-1)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'F. D. R.: The New Deal Years, 1933-1937'Book summary:FDR: The War President opens as Roosevelt has been re-elected to a third term and the United States is drifting toward a war that has already engulfed Europe. Roosevelt, as commander in chief, statesman, and politician, must navigate a delicate balance between helping those in Europe--while remaining mindful of the forces of isolation both in the Congress and the country--and protecting the gains of the New Deal, upon which he has spent so much of his prestige and power.
Kenneth S. Davis draws vivid depictions of the lives, characters, and temperaments of the military and political personalities so paramount to the history of the time: Churchill, Stalin, de Gaulle, and Hitler; Generals Marshall, Eisenhower, and MacArthur; Admiral Darlan, Chiang Kai-shek, Charles Lindbergh, William Allen White, Joseph Kennedy, Averell Harriman, Harry Tru-man, Robert Murphy, Sidney Hillman, William Knud-sen, Cordell Hull, Henry Morgenthau, Henry Stimson, A. Philip Randolph, Wendell Willkie, and Henry Wallace.
The portrait of Henry Hopkins, who interacted with many of these personalities on behalf of Roosevelt, is woven into this history as the complex, interconnected relationship it was. Hopkins burnished the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt and eased the way for their interactions with Stalin.
Another set of characters central to Roosevelt's life and finely drawn by the author includes Eleanor Roo-sevelt, Sara Roosevelt, Missy LeHand, Grace Tully, Princess Martha of Norway, and Daisy Suckley.
Integral to this history as well are the Argentina Conference, the Atlantic Charter and the beginnings of the United Nations, the Moscow Conference, lend-lease, the story of the building of the atomic bomb, Hitler's Final Solution and how Roosevelt and the State Department reacted to it, Pearl Harbor and war with Japan, the planning of Torch, and the murder of Admiral Darlan. All these stories intersect with the economic and social problems facing Roosevelt at home as the United States mobilizes for war.
The lessons and concerns of 1940-1943 as dissected in this book are still relevant to the problems and concerns of our own time. A recurrent theme is technology: Do people control technology, or does technology control people?
Kenneth Davis had the rare gift of writing history that reads with the immediacy of a novel; and though the outcome of this history is well known, the events and people depicted here keep the reader focused on an enthralling suspense story.
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F. D. R.: The Beckoning of Destiny, 1882-1928by Kenneth S. DavisISBN 0679748792 (0-679-74879-2)
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F.D.R.: An Intimate Historyby Nathan MillerISBN 0819180610 (0-8191-8061-0)
Softcover, Madison Books
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Farewell to the Party of Lincoln: Black Politics in the Age of FDRby Nancy J. WeissISBN 0691101515 (0-691-10151-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Farewell to the Party of Lincoln: Black Politics in the Age of FDR'Book summary:This book examines a remarkable political phenomenon--the dramatic shift of black voters from the Republican to the Democratic party in the 1930s, a shift all the more striking in light of the Democrats' indifference to racial concerns. Nancy J. Weiss shows that blacks became Democrats in response to the economic benefits of the New Deal and that they voted for Franklin Roosevelt in spite of the New Deal's lack of a substantive record on race.
By their support for FDR blacks forged a political commitment to the Democratic party that has lasted to our own time. The last group to join the New Deal coalition, they have been the group that remained the most loyal to the Democratic party. This book explains the sources of their commitment in the 1930s. It stresses the central role of economic concerns in shaping black political behavior and clarifies both the New Deal record on race and the extraordinary relationship between black voters and the Roosevelts.
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FDR:the Beckoning of Destiny: 1882-1928; a Historyby Kenneth Sydney DavisISBN 0399109986 (0-399-10998-6)
Hardcover, Putnam
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FDR : The War President, 1940-1943: A Historyby Kenneth S. DavisISBN 0679415424 (0-679-41542-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'FDR : The War President, 1940-1943: A History'Book summary:The fifth volume of Kenneth S. Davis's magisterial, much-praised biography follows FDR from his re-election to an unprecedented third term in November 1940 through New Year's Eve, 1942, when he screened a brand-new film, Casablanca, at the White House. During the intervening 25 months, President Roosevelt prepared a reluctant nation for the war that he knew was coming, then struggled to maintain the government's commitment to his New Deal social programs, as well as the conflict overseas. Like its predecessors, this installment combines shrewd, intimate psychological insights into Roosevelt's character with a sweeping historical narrative of world events and a superbly detailed account of Washington political maneuvers--all three laid out in grave, elegant prose. Perhaps Davis's most notable achievement lies in tracing the links between FDR's personality and his leadership style: the unexpected benefits of his maddening indecisiveness, his ability to use even his crippling physical handicap to political advantage, the way in which the adult president cemented personal and professional ties with the evasive charm that he developed in adolescence to defend himself against a smothering mother. Admirers of serious yet accessible biography can regret only that the author's death in 1999 means that there will be no concluding volume to this magnificent series, which has shed so much light on one of the more complex men ever to inhabit the White House. --Wendy Smith [via]
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FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt And His New Deal Prolonged The Great Depressionby Jim PowellISBN 140005477X (1-4000-5477-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt And His New Deal Prolonged The Great Depression'Book summary:Admirers of FDR credit his New Deal with restoring the American economy after the disastrous contraction of 192933. Truth to tellas Powell demonstrates without a shadow of a doubtthe New Deal hampered recovery from the contraction, prolonged and added to unemployment, and set the stage for ever more intrusive and costly government. Powells analysis is thoroughly documented, relying on an impressive variety of popular and academic literature both contemporary and historical.
Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate, Hoover Institution
There is a critical and often forgotten difference between disaster and tragedy. Disasters happen to us all, no matter what we do. Tragedies are brought upon ourselves by hubris. The Depression of the 1930s would have been a brief disaster if it hadnt been for the national tragedy of the New Deal. Jim Powell has proven this.
P.J. ORourke, author of Parliament of Whores and Eat the Rich
The material laid out in this book desperately needs to be available to a much wider audience than the ranks of professional economists and economic historians, if policy confusion similar to the New Deal is to be avoided in the future.
James M. Buchanan, Nobel Laureate, George Mason University
I found Jim Powells book fascinating. I think he has written an important story, one that definitely needs telling.
Thomas Fleming, author of The New Dealers War
Jim Powell is one tough-minded historian, willing to let the chips fall where they may. Thats a rare quality these days, hence more valuable than ever. He lets the history do the talking.
David Landes, Professor of History Emeritus, Harvard University
Jim Powell draws together voluminous economic research on the effects of all of Roosevelts major policies. Along the way, Powell gives fascinating thumbnail sketches of the major players. The result is a devastating indictment, compellingly told. Those who think that government intervention helped get the U.S. economy out of the depression should read this book.
David R. Henderson, editor of The Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics and author of The Joy of Freedom
The Great Depression and the New Deal. For generations, the collective American consciousness has believed that the former ruined the country and the latter saved it. Endless praise has been heaped upon President Franklin Delano Roosevelt for masterfully reining in the Depressions destructive effects and propping up the
country on his New Deal platform. In fact, FDR has achieved mythical status in American history and is considered to be, along with Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln, one of the greatest presidents of all time. But would the Great Depression have been so catastrophic had the New Deal never been implemented?
In FDRs Folly, historian Jim Powell argues that it was in fact the New Deal itself, with its shortsighted programs, that deepened the Great Depression, swelled the federal government, and prevented the country from turning around quickly. Youll discover in alarming detail how FDRs federal programs hurt America more than helped it, with effects we still feel today, including:
" How Social Security actually increased unemployment
" How higher taxes undermined good businesses
" How new labor laws threw people out of work
" And much more
This groundbreaking book pulls back the shroud of awe and the cloak of time enveloping FDR to prove convincingly how flawed his economic policies actually were, despite his good intentions and the astounding intellect of his circle of advisers. In todays turbulent domestic and global environment, eerily similar to that of the 1930s, its more important than ever before to uncover and understand the truth of our history, lest we be doomed to repeat it. [via]More editions of FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt And His New Deal Prolonged The Great Depression:
Fdr's Quiet Confidant: The Autobiography of Frank C. Walkerby Robert H. FerrellISBN 0870813943 (0-87081-394-3)
Hardcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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Fdr's Splendid Deception: The Moving Story of Roosevelt's Massive Disability-And the Intense Efforts to Conceal It from the Publicby Hugh Gregory GallagherISBN 0918339502 (0-918339-50-2)
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FDR, 1882-1945: A Centenary Remembranceby Joseph AlsopISBN 0896213692 (0-89621-369-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Press
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A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Rooseveltby Geoffrey C. WardISBN 0060920262 (0-06-092026-2)
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The Folly of Empire : What George W. Bush Could Learn from Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilsonby John B. JudisISBN 0743261275 (0-7432-6127-5)
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Franklin and Winston : An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendshipby Jon MeachamISBN 0812972821 (0-8129-7282-1)
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Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of the Greatest Generation. In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in World War II. It was a crucial friendship, and a unique onea president and a prime minister spending enormous amounts of time together (113 days during the war) and exchanging nearly two thousand messages. Amid cocktails, cigarettes, and cigars, they met, often secretly, in places as far-flung as Washington, Hyde Park, Casablanca, and Teheran, talking to each other of war, politics, the burden of command, their health, their wives, and their children.
Born in the nineteenth century and molders of the twentieth and twenty-first, Roosevelt and Churchill had much in common. Sons of the elite, students of history, politicians of the first rank, they savored power. In their own time both men were underestimated, dismissed as arrogant, and faced skeptics and haters in their own nationsyet both magnificently rose to the central challenges of the twentieth century. Theirs was a kind of love story, with an emotional Churchill courting an elusive Roosevelt. The British prime minister, who rallied his nation in its darkest hour, standing alone against Adolf Hitler, was always somewhat insecure about his place in FDRs affectionswhich was the way Roosevelt wanted it. A man of secrets, FDR liked to keep people off balance, including his wife, Eleanor, his White House aidesand Winston Churchill.
Confronting tyranny and terror, Roosevelt and Churchill built a victorious alliance amid cataclysmic events and occasionally conflicting interests. Franklin and Winston is also the story of their marriages and their families, two clans caught up in the most sweeping global conflict in history.
Meachams new sourcesincluding unpublished letters of FDRs great secret love, Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, the papers of Pamela Churchill Harriman, and interviews with the few surviving people who were in FDR and Churchills joint companyshed fresh light on the characters of both men as he engagingly chronicles the hours in which they decided the course of the struggle.
Hitler brought them together; later in the war, they drifted apart, but even in the autumn of their alliance, the pull of affection was always there. Charting the personal drama behind the discussions of strategy and statecraft, Meacham has written the definitive account of the most remarkable friendship of the modern age. [via]More editions of Franklin and Winston : An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship:
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Rendezvous With Destinyby Frank FreidelISBN 094570738X (0-945707-38-X)
Hardcover, Amer Political Biography Pr
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Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940by William E. LeuchtenburgISBN 0061330256 (0-06-133025-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940'Book summary:When the stability of American life was threatened by the Great Depression, the decisive and visionary policy contained in FDR's New Deal offered America a way forward. In this groundbreaking work, William E. Leuchtenburg traces the evolution of what was both the most controversial and effective socioeconomic initiative ever undertaken in the United Statesand explains how the social fabric of American life was forever altered. It offers illuminating lessons on the challenges of economic transformationfor our time and for all time.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Search for Securityby Edward M. BennettISBN 0842022473 (0-8420-2247-3)
Softcover, Scholarly Resources Inc
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Franklin Delano Rooseveltby Richard E. Neustadt, Roy JenkinsISBN 0786262923 (0-7862-6292-3)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedomby Conrad BlackISBN 1586482823 (1-58648-282-3)
Softcover, Public Affairs
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion Of Freedom'Book summary:Franklin Delano Roosevelt stands astride American history like a colossus, having pulled the nation out of the Great Depression and led it to victory in the Second World War. Elected to four terms as president, he transformed an inward-looking country into the greatest superpower the world had ever known. Only Abraham Lincoln did more to save America from destruction. But FDR is such a large figure that historians tend to take him as part of the landscape, focusing on smaller aspects of his achievements or carping about where he ought to have done things differently. Few have tried to assess the totality of FDR's life and career.[via]
Conrad Black rises to the challenge. In this magisterial biography, Black makes the case that FDR was the most important person of the twentieth century, transforming his nation and the world through his unparalleled skill as a domestic politician, war leader, strategist, and global visionary--all of which he accomplished despite a physical infirmity that could easily have ended his public life at age thirty-nine. Black also takes on the great critics of FDR, especially those who accuse him of betraying the West at Yalta. Black opens a new chapter in our understanding of this great man, whose example is even more inspiring as a new generation embarks on its own rendezvous with destiny.More editions of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom:
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The Franklin Rooseveltsby Cass R. SandakISBN 0896866394 (0-89686-639-4)
Hardcover, Silver Burdett Press
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Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945by David M. KennedyISBN 0195144031 (0-19-514403-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945'Book summary:You can think of Freedom from Fear as the academic's version of The Greatest Generation: like Tom Brokaw, Stanford history professor David M. Kennedy focuses on the years of the Great Depression and the Second World War and how the American people coped with those events. But there the similarities end--and, in terms of the differences, one might begin by noting that the historian's account is over twice the size of the journalist's.
Whereas Brokaw made use of extensive interviews, Kennedy relies on published accounts and primary sources, all meticulously footnoted. This academic rigor, however, does not render the book dull--far from it. Certainly the subject matter is interesting enough in its own right, but Kennedy offers attention-grabbing turns of phrase on nearly every page. He also unleashes some convention-shattering theses, such as his revelation that "the most responsible students of the events of 1929 have been unable to demonstrate an appreciable cause-and-effect linkage between the Crash and the Depression" and his subsequent argument that, although it made order out of chaos, the New Deal did not reverse the Depression--that, he says, was the war's doing. All in all, Freedom from Fear compares favorably to its companions in the multivolume Oxford History of the United States in both its comprehensive heft and its vivid readability. --Ron Hogan [via]
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From Munich to Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt's America and the Origins of the Second World Warby David ReynoldsISBN 1566633907 (1-56663-390-7)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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Hanging On, Or, How to Get Through a Depression and Enjoy Lifeby Edmund G. LoveISBN 0814319319 (0-8143-1931-9)
Hardcover, Wayne State Univ Pr
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Hard Timesby Studs TerkelISBN 1565846567 (1-56584-656-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hard Times'Book summary:First published in 1970, this classic of oral history features the voices of men and women who lived through the Great Depression of the 1930s. It includes accounts by congressmen C. Wright Patman and Hamilton Fish, as well as failed presidential candidate Alf M. Landon, who recalls what it was like to be governor of Kansas in 1933:
Men with tears in their eyes begged for an appointment that would help save their homes and farms. I couldn't see them all in my office. But I never let one of them leave without my coming out and shakin' hands with 'em. I listened to all their stories, each one of 'em. But it was obvious I couldn't take care of all their terrible needs.
The book includes also the perspectives of ordinary men and women, such as Jim Sheridan, who took part in the 1932 march by World War I veterans to petition for their benefits in Washington, D.C., where they were repelled by army troops led by General Douglas MacArthur. Or Edward Santander, who was a child then: "My first memories come about '31. It was simply a gut issue then: eating or not eating, living or not living." Studs Terkel makes history come alive, drawing out experiences and emotions from his interviewees to the degree few have ever been able to match. [via]More editions of Hard Times:
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The Imperial Presidencyby Arthur Meier SchlesingerISBN 0735100470 (0-7351-0047-0)
Hardcover, Xlibris Corp
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Invincible Summer: An Intimate Portrait of the Roosevelts, Based on the Recollections of Marion Dickermanby Kenneth Sydney Davis, Marion DickermanISBN 0689105665 (0-689-10566-5)
Hardcover, Atheneum
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Isolationism in America 1935-1941by Manfred JonasISBN 1879176017 (1-879176-01-7)
Softcover, Imprint Pubns
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Life:World War II: History's Greatest Conflict In Picturesby Richard StolleyISBN 0821257137 (0-8212-5713-7)
Softcover, Bulfinch Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life:World War II: History's Greatest Conflict In Pictures'Book summary:Chapters and Essays 1919-1939: All Roads Led to War "Four Blunders That Doomed the World" by Robert Edwin Herzstein 1940: France Falls and Britain Teeters "Hitler's Generals Are Astounded" by Alistair Horne 1941: Finally, America is Forced Into War "The Killing Moves Around the Planet" by Gerhard L. Weinberg 1942: Two Victories Reverse the Momentum "The Beginning Comes to an End" by Harry A. Gailey 1943: From Atoll to Air, the War Grinds on "A Deadly Game of Leapfrog" by Ronald H. Spector 1944: Tyranny on the Brink of Defeat "A Desperate Last-Ditch Resistance" by John Keegan 1945: Splitting Atoms End the War "The Invasion That Never Was" by John S.D. Eisenhower 1946-2001: The War's Aftermath "Red Scares, Baby Harvest, Fatter Paychecks and Learning to Pull Together" by William L. O'Neill. [via]
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Life-World War 2: History's Greatest Conflict in Picturesby Richard B. StolleyISBN 0821227718 (0-8212-2771-8)
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Love from Your Friend, Hannahby Mindy Warshaw Skolsky, HannahISBN 0789424924 (0-7894-2492-4)
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A Madman Dreams of Turing Machinesby Janna LevinISBN 1400040302 (1-4000-4030-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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My Parents: A Differing Viewby James Roosevelt, Bill LibbyISBN 0872234762 (0-87223-476-2)
Hardcover, Playboy Press
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The New Dealby Paul K. ConkinISBN 0882958895 (0-88295-889-5)
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The New Dealers' War: FDR & the War Within World War IIby Thomas FlemingISBN 0465024653 (0-465-02465-3)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Dealers' War: FDR & the War Within World War II'Book summary:Always fiercely contested on matters of domestic policy, Franklin Roosevelt faced even more opposition when it came to international relations. His first two terms in office coincided with the rise of a powerful isolationist movement that urged the government not to involve itself in foreign entanglements. That movement, coupled with strongly anti-British sentiment that owed much to America's large Irish and German populations, hampered Roosevelt's efforts to set the nation on the side of England when it became apparent in the late 1930s that a European war loomed.
To placate his opposition, Thomas Fleming charges in The New Dealers' War, Roosevelt promised "that he would never send American soldiers to fight beyond America's shores." Yet, Fleming continues, on December 4, 1941, the Chicago Tribune revealed the existence of elaborate war plans involving the landing of an American force 5 million strong in Europe by 1943. The revelation gave isolationists fits, of course, but their criticism was effectively silenced three days later when a Japanese force attacked Hawaii. In declaring war on Japan and its allies, Roosevelt's New Deal administration imposed what Fleming considers to have been an unreasonable demand for the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers. That demand, he believes, compromised internal resistance to the enemy regimes. Its prosecution also legitimized the use of what Fleming calls "hateful tactics" such as the bombing of civilian targets and the use of nuclear weapons.
Fleming's revisionist study will be of greatest interest to those already inclined to the view that Franklin Roosevelt tricked his country into fighting Fascism. Other readers may take issue with his ad hominem, ideological arguments. Either way, his provocative thesis is sure to promote debate. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin And Eleanor Roosevelt, The Home Front In World War IIby Doris Kearns GoodwinISBN 0684804484 (0-684-80448-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnsonby Robert A. CaroISBN 0679729453 (0-679-72945-3)
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The People and the President: America's Conversation With FDRby Lawrence W. Levine, Cornelia R. LevineISBN 0807055107 (0-8070-5510-7)
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For readers of The Greatest Generation, an extraordinary window on the '30s and '40s By the time FDR took his oath of office on March 4, 1933, Americans had been in the depths of the Great Depression for four years. One week later, the President gave the first of what would be thirty-one Fireside Chats.
MacArthur Award-winning historian Lawrence W. Levine and independent scholar Cornelia Levine have combed through the millions of letters that flooded the White House in response to the Chats. Grateful, infuriated, proud, scolding, the letters, collected here and combined with the Levines' vivid historical commentary, give testimony to an extraordinary time in our nation's past.
Encouraged by the President ("Tell me your troubles"), farmers, salesmen, housewives, new immigrants, and old Republicans all wrote, telling him about their lives and what they thought of his initiatives. Their words paint a remarkable picture of America, from the hardship of the Depression, to the promise of the New Deal, to the turmoil surrounding our nation's entry into World War II.
Praise for Lawrence W. Levine:
"One of our era's most original historians."
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
"A master of American history."
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Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War IIby Roger Daniels, Eric FonerISBN 0809015536 (0-8090-1553-6)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Rooseveltby James MacGregor BurnsISBN 0156788756 (0-15-678875-6)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Roosevelt and Churchill: Men of Secretsby David StaffordISBN 1585672491 (1-58567-249-1)
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Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate Historyby Robert E. SherwoodISBN 1929631049 (1-929631-04-9)
Softcover, Enigma Books
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The Roosevelt Mythby John T. FlynnISBN 0930073274 (0-930073-27-4)
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The Roosevelt Myth: A Critical Account of the New Deal and Its Creatorby John T. FlynnISBN 0815967225 (0-8159-6722-5)
Softcover, Devin-Adair Pub
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Roosevelt: Soldier of Freedom 1940-1945by James MacGregor BurnsISBN 0156027577 (0-15-602757-7)
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Roosevelt the Lion and the Foxby James MacGregor BurnsISBN 0156788705 (0-15-678870-5)
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Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox 1882-1940by James MacGregor BurnsISBN 0156027623 (0-15-602762-3)
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Roosevelt:the Soldier of Freedom: The Soldier of Freedomby James MacGregor BurnsISBN 0151788715 (0-15-178871-5)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionageby Joseph E. PersicoISBN 0375761268 (0-375-76126-8)
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Sense and Sensibilityby Jane Austen, Balogh, Mary (AFT), Margaret DrabbleISBN 0451531019 (0-451-53101-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sense and Sensibility'Book summary:Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly romantic--a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion. Commenting on Edward Ferrars, a potential suitor for Elinor's hand, Marianne admits that while she "loves him tenderly," she finds him disappointing as a possible lover for her sister:
Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat. To hear those beautiful lines which have frequently almost driven me wild, pronounced with such impenetrable calmness, such dreadful indifference!
Soon however, Marianne meets a man who measures up to her ideal: Mr. Willoughby, a new neighbor. So swept away by passion is Marianne that her behavior begins to border on the scandalous. Then Willoughby abandons her; meanwhile, Elinor's growing affection for Edward suffers a check when he admits he is secretly engaged to a childhood sweetheart. How each of the sisters reacts to their romantic misfortunes, and the lessons they draw before coming finally to the requisite happy ending forms the heart of the novel. Though Marianne's disregard for social conventions and willingness to consider the world well-lost for love may appeal to modern readers, it is Elinor whom Austen herself most evidently admired; a truly happy marriage, she shows us, exists only where sense and sensibility meet and mix in proper measure. --Alix Wilber [via]More editions of Sense and Sensibility:
State of the Union: A Century of American Laborby Nelson LichtensteinISBN 0691116547 (0-691-11654-7)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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In the Progressive era, Lichtenstein writes, the "labor question" lay at the heart of a whole complex of political ideas governing the social betterment of working people and the development of a more equitable society. These ideas flourished through the course of the early twentieth century, as unions attained more and more influence and as Keynesian notions of organized labor being "essential to boost mass purchasing power and thereby sustain economic growth" became established. After World War II, however, unionism began a slow collapse, helped along by the rise of conservative, antilabor politics. Although ideas of workplace justice and the extension of civil rights into the private sector remain strong, organized labor has not--with the result, Lichtenstein argues, that many American workers are worse off today than they were a quarter of a century ago. Lichtenstein's narrative capably summarizes trends in modern labor history, and it provides much fuel for activists seeking renewed labor-based politics. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Rooseveltby Robert Houghwout Jackson, John Q. Barrett, William E. LeuchtenburgISBN 0195177576 (0-19-517757-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt'Book summary:Robert 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 is that newly discovered memoir. Written with skill and grace, this is truly a unique account of the personality, conduct, greatness of character, and common humanity of "that man in the White House," as outraged conservatives called FDR. Jackson simply but eloquently provides an insider's view of Roosevelt's presidency, including such crucial events as FDR's Court-packing plan, his battles with corporate America, his decision to seek a third term, and his bold move to aid Britain in 1940 with American destroyers. He also offers an intimate personal portrait of Roosevelt--on fishing trips, in late-night poker games, or approving legislation while eating breakfast in bed, where he routinely began his workday. We meet a president who is far-sighted but nimble in attacking the problems at hand; principled but flexible; charismatic and popular but unafraid to pick fights, take stands, and when necessary, make enemies. That Man is not simply a valuable historical document, but an engaging and insightful look at one of the most remarkable men in American history. In reading this memoir, we gain not only a new appreciation for Roosevelt, but also admiration for Jackson, who emerges as both a public servant of great integrity and skill and a wry, shrewd, and fair-minded observer of politics at the highest level. [via]
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Trumanby David Willis McCulloughISBN 0671869205 (0-671-86920-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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World War IIby Cyrus Leo SulzbergerISBN 0828103313 (0-8281-0331-3)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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