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The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-1932 (The Chicago History of American Civilization)

9 reviews
William E. Leuchtenburg

University Of Chicago Press, 1993

Scandals and Speakeasies
I had to read this book for my American History Since 1877 course. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed reading this book. I thought I knew about the 1920's, and after reading this book I knew that I knew nothing at all. This book covers ever aspect of the decade and gives it more than just a name. The book covers political, economic, and social issues of the day. It explains the state of ...

The FDR Years

3 reviews
William E. Leuchtenburg

Columbia University Press, 1997

Excellent Essays from the Leading Historian of FDR
In this fine collection of essays, William Leuchtenburg provides an excellent companion piece to his masterpiece, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal. Anyone interested in a general overview of FDR's presidency should check out that book first. This is meant more as a series of insights on highly specific topics, mostly culled from invited lectures that Leuchtenburg has given around the world.

A Concise History of the American Republic: Single Volume
Samuel Eliot Morison, Henry Steele Commager, ...

Oxford University Press, USA, 1983

A Concise History of the American Republic, Second Edition, is a compact, authoritative, gracefully written narrative of American history from the arrival of the Native Americans' Siberian forebears to the economic conflicts of the Carter and Reagan administrations. Its distinguished authors embrace a full range of the American experience: economic and social, literary and spiritual, political and military. In the engaging narrative that has ...

The Burden of Southern History

1 review
C. Vann Woodward

Louisiana State University Press, 2008

Essays from a Southern Intellectual
This is a collection of essays on then contemporary southern culture and history. The essays generally deal with the transformation then taking place- the end of segregation, the civil rights movement, and surging population and industrial development. The essays have a sentimental quality I don't find in more modern writings. They are short in the quality of thesis ('Southern Identity lies ...

Franklin D Roosevelt And The New Deal

10 reviews
William E. Leuchtenburg

Harper Perennial, 1963

The definitive work on the New Deal
Historian William Leuchtenburg, one of the most prominent American scholars writing about America in the 1930s, wrote "Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940" as a response to other researchers who "tended to minimize the significance of the changes wrought by the thirties." According to the author, these historians "have stressed, quite properly, the continuity between the New Deal ...

In the Shadow of FDR: From Harry Truman to George W. Bush

1 review
William E. Leuchtenburg

Cornell University Press, 2001

Examines the Lasting Impact of FDR 55 Years Later
Leuchtenburg, and esteemed historian of the Roosevelt era, examines the profound, lasting impact of Roosevelt's policies on America for many decades following his presidency and how future presidents have operated in Roosevelt's shadow. (The book will need to be revised again due to the Bush plan to privatize Social Security - although FDR's original plan was more modest than the current system, ...

The Supreme Court Reborn: The Constitutional Revolution in the Age of Roosevelt
William E. Leuchtenburg

Oxford University Press, USA, 1996

For almost sixty years, the results of the New Deal have been an accepted part of political life. Social Security, to take one example, is now seen as every American's birthright. But to validate this revolutionary legislation, Franklin Roosevelt had to fight a ferocious battle against the opposition of the Supreme Court--which was entrenched in laissez faire orthodoxy. After many lost battles, Roosevelt won his war with the Court, launching a ...

Herbert Hoover: The American Presidents Series: The 31st President, 1929-1933 (The American Presidents)
William E. Leuchtenburg

Times Books, 2009

The Republican efficiency expert whose economic boosterism met its match in the Great Depression Catapulted into national politics by his heroic campaigns to feed Europe during and after World War I, Herbert Hoover?an engineer by training?exemplified the economic optimism of the 1920s. As president, however, Hoover was sorely tested by America?s first crisis of the twentieth century: the Great Depression. Renowned New Deal historian William ...

The Growth of the American Republic (Volume II)

7 reviews
Samuel Eliot Morison, Henry Steele Commager, ...

Oxford University Press, USA, 1980

Classic of the "Plymouth Rock" School.
This book is a classic deserving of that title. What is it that makes it truly extraordinary? Lucidity, clarity, and topical broadness make this work particularly impressive. Though it looks like a standard college freshman text, it doesn't read that way. You're not likely to read it cover to cover like a novel, but it's perfect for grabbing off the shelf after having watched that jingoistic ...

That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt

3 reviews
Robert H. Jackson

Oxford University Press, USA, 2004

A refreshing look at our 32nd President
As a long-time admirer of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, I am always intrigued by new books that are published regarding his life or his Presidency. A book from a contemporary source that has such "insider" knowledge of how FDR operated as Robert Jackson is a marvelous addition to the existing literature. Jackson does not make any promises at the outset of the book except to be objective, and he ...

The Perils of Prosperity 1914-32 (The Chicago History of American Civilization)
William E. Leuchtenburg

University of Chicago Press, 1968

This book traces the political, economic, social, and cultural phenomena that transformed America from an agrarian, primarily decentralized, moralistic, isolationist nation into an industrial, urban, morally liberalized nation involved in foreign affairs in spite of itself. Beginning with Wilson and the entrance of the United States into World War I, Mr. Leuchtenburg covers the range of subsequent events: the fight over the League of Nations; ...

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