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Author: Los Angeles County Public Library
Publisher:
Published: 1926
Total Pages: 1364
ISBN-13:
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The Clash
Author: Walter LaFeber
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 550
ISBN-13: 9780393318371
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of America's leading historians tells the entire story behind the disagreements, tensions, and skirmishes between Japan--a compact, homogeneous, closely-knit society terrified of disorder--and America--a sprawling, open-ended society that fears economic depression and continually seeks an international marketplace. Photos.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Author: Frank Freidel
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 2009-11-29
Total Pages: 673
ISBN-13: 031609241X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe acclaimed one-volume biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt, praised by Doris Kearns Goodwin as "brilliant...a magnificently readable saga."
The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919-1933
Author: Arthur Meier Schlesinger
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9780618340859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first of three books that interpret the political, economic, social, and intellectual history of the early twentieth century in terms of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the spokesman and symbol of the period. Portraying the United States from the Great War to the Great Depression, this volume covers the Jazz Age and the rise and fall of the cult of business. For a season, prosperity seemed permanent, but the illusion came to an end when Wall Street crashed in October 1929. Public trust in the wisdom of business leadership crashed too. With a dramatist's eye for vivid detail and a scholar's respect for accuracy, Schlesinger brings to life the era that gave rise to FDR and his New Deal and changed the public face of the United States forever.
Interpreting Bonhoeffer
Author: Clifford J. Green
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1451465416
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the early twenty-first century, interest in the life and work of Dietrich Bonhoeffer is increasing significantly. In this environment, how should we understand and interpret Bonhoeffer? Interpreting Bonhoeffer explores the many questions surrounding the complexities of Bonhoeffers life, work, and historical context and what they might mean for how we understand and interpret Bonhoeffer now and in the future.
For the Survival of Democracy
Author: Alonzo L. Hamby
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13: 0684843404
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"For the Survival of Democracy" is a masterful retelling of the prewar crisis years that situates Franklin Roosevelt and America in the larger context of German, British, and world history--rendering the most accurate picture to date of FDRUs extraordinary leadership.
Traitor to His Class
Author: H. W. Brands
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2009-09-08
Total Pages: 913
ISBN-13: 0307277941
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNATIONAL 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 First Civil War "It may well be the best general biography of Franklin Roosevelt we will see for many years to come.” —The Christian Science Monitor 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 during the Depression with his New Deal legislation, and carefully managed the country's prelude to war. Brands shows how Roosevelt's friendship and regard for Winston Churchill helped to forge one of the greatest alliances in history, as Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin maneuvered to defeat Germany and prepare for post-war Europe. Look for H.W. Brands's other biographies: THE FIRST AMERICAN (Benjamin Franklin), ANDREW JACKSON, THE MAN WHO SAVED THE UNION (Ulysses S. Grant), and REAGAN.
The Presidency of Herbert C. Hoover
Author: Martin L. Fausold
Publisher:
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is likely to rank as the standard source on the Hoover Presidency for years to come.
The Presidents and the Supreme Court
Author: James F. Simon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-02-07
Total Pages: 1116
ISBN-13: 1451671636
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollected together, James F. Simon’s books share the bitter struggles and compromises that have characterized the relationship between the presidents and the Supreme Court Chief Justices across US history. The bitter and protracted struggle between President Thomas Jefferson and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall; the frustration and grudging admiration between FDR and Chief Justice Hughes; the clashes between President Abraham Lincoln and Chief Justice Roger B. Taney. These were the conflicts that ended slavery, that rescued us from the Great Depression, and that defined a nation—for better and for worse. And, Simon brings them to brilliant and compelling life.
