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H. W. Brands
Bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands narrates the fierce debate over America's role in the world in the runup to World War II through its two most…
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Replete with insights on the ways in which systems of law impact social control and political identity, Six Constitutions Over Texas offers a fresh view of how shifting political ideologies…
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The extraordinary story of Andrew Jackson–the colorful, dynamic, and forceful president who ushered in the Age of Democracy and set a still-young America on its path to greatness–is told by…
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Collects revealing letters from the complete eight-volume set, featuring 1,000 letters that take readers into the heart and mind of Teddy Roosevelt.
Founding Partisans is a lively narrative of the early years of the republic as the Founding Fathers fought one another with competing visions of what our nation would be. To…
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In the initial volume of a new series–American Portraits, focusing on forgotten chapters of American history–Brands brings to life a scandal from Gilded Age New York: the murder of Jim…
From the New York Times bestselling author, an acclaimed biography of President Teddy Roosevelt
Lauded as a rip-roaring life (Wall Street Journal), T. R. is a magisterial biography of Theodore…
From New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how, in nineteenth-century America, a new set of political giants battled to complete the unfinished work…
Bestselling historian and Pulitzer-prize finalist H. W. Brands follows the lives and battles of General William Tecumseh Sherman and Apache warrior Geronimo to tell the story of the Indian Wars…
From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off…
From a New York Times-bestselling author, a sweeping history of the American West
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A biography of America’s first Renaissance man discusses Benjamin Franklin’s diverse roles as a scientist, businessman, philosopher, writer, inventor, diplomat, politician, wit, and Founding Father.
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Our First Civil War-and the rare academic historian who can write like a bestselling novelist (USA Today)-comes…
Endpaper map by John Burgoyne –Copyright page.
From the acclaimed historian and bestselling author- a page-turning account of the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln-two men moved to radically different acts…
A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times-bestselling author sets a new standard for histories of the American West
Drawing on archival materials, public speeches, personal correspondence, and accounts by family and close associates, acclaimed bestselling historian and biographer Brands offers a compelling and intimate portrait of Franklin D…
Focuses on five money men : Alexander Hamilton, Nicholas Biddle, Jay Cooke, Jay Gould and J P Morgan.
With keen insight and an impeccable sense of the spirit of the times, Brands, one of today’s preeminent historians, captures the American experience through the last six decades. He chronicles…
From bestselling historian H. W. Brands, a sweeping chronicle of how a few wealthy businessmen reshaped America from a land of small farmers and small businessmen into an industrial giant.
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Our First Civil War-a masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the…
To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were a fatal threat to republican virtues. They had suffered the consequences of partisan politics in Britain before the American Revolution, and…
Bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands follows the lives of General William Tecumseh Sherman and Apache war leader Geronimo to tell the story of the Indian Wars…
Chronicles Texas’s precarious journey to statehood, from its early colonization in the 1820s to the massacres of Texas loyalists at the Alamo and Goliad by the Mexican army.
Theodore Roosevelt’s public strengths hid enormous personal deficiencies. His highly exaggerated, and often uncompromising ways led many of his business and personal friends to criticize him. Even more revealing, according…
An acclaimed historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist offers a clear, comprehensive, and timely account of Wilson’s unusual route to the White House, his campaign against corporate interests, and his decline…
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An engaging and intimate portrait of the controversial early American politician Aaron Burr, by bestselling historian Brands.
H. W. Brands (Texas A & M University)
This book is an intellectual and moral history of US foreign policy, and a guide to the fundamental question of America’s relations with the rest of the world.
Just as today, Americans of the 1890s faced changes in economics, politics, society, and technology that led to wrenching and often violent tensions between rich and poor, capital and labour…
From a New York Times-bestselling author, a sweeping history of the American West In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of…
From the first days of the United States, a battle raged over money. On one side were the democrats, who wanted cheap money and feared the concentration of financial interests…
Theodore Roosevelt
Ex-President and explorer Theodore Roosevelt recalls in his journal of a hunting trip in Africa the many animals he stalked and killed for the Smithsonian institution, and his meetings with…
H. W. Brands (Professor of History, Professor of History, Texas A & M. University)
An analysis of the United States’ involvement in the Cold War that will provoke both the left and the right. Brands analyses what was done, what should have been done…
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H. W. Brands (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Texas A & M University)
Historian H.W. Brands offers a look at Johnson’s handling of international relations, putting Vietnam in the context of the crises he confronted and the policies of containment he had to…
