Books written by William E. Leuchtenburg
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The Supreme Court Reborn: The Constitutional Revolution in the Age of Roosevelt
... 1937, Holt MSS, University of West Virginia Library, Morgantown, W. Va Constitutional Democracy, April 5, 1937, ... See also A. F. Whitney to Frank O. Lowden, April 17, 1937, Lowden MSS, University of Chicago Library, Chicago, 111., ...
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The White House Looks South: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson
See, too, Ernest McPherson Lander Jr., A History of South Carolina, 1865–1960 (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1960), 75. ... Robert R. Reynolds to Haywood Robbins Jr., March 2, 1936; Robbins to Wallace Winbourne, March 17, 1936; Robbins to Marvin ...
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The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton
spending, they insisted that he slash the budget still more. They even denied his legitimacy. They called him not “President Clinton” but “Mister Clinton.” The Republican leader in the Senate, Robert Dole, announced that he would be ...
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The White House Looks South: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson
795; Maury Maverick, "Let's Join the United States," Virginia Quarterly Review 15 (1939): 64-65; George B. Tindall, "The 'Colonial Economy' and the Growth Psychology: The South in the 1930s," South Atlantic Quarterly 64 (1965): 473.
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The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-1932
E. David Cronon , Black Moses ( 1955 ) , Theodore G. Vincent , Black Power and the Garvey Movement ( 1971 ) , Randall Burkett , Garveyism as a Religious Movement ( 1978 ) , and Judith Stein , The World of Marcus Garvey ( 1986 ) , offer ...
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The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-1932
He has also updated the lists of important dates and resources for further reading. “This book gives us a rare opportunity to enjoy the matured interpretation of an American Historian who has returned to the story and seen how recent ...
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Herbert Hoover: The American Presidents Series: The 31st President, 1929-1933
Herbert Hoover. Boston: Twayne, 1980. Ellis, L. Ethan. Republican Foreign Policy, 1921–1933. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1968. Fausold, Martin L. The Presidency of Herbert C. Hoover. Lawrence: University Press of ...
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The Supreme Court Reborn: The Constitutional Revolution in the Age of Roosevelt
The President had no enthusiasm at all for Judge Bratton, the favorite of the Senate. "Bratton belongs to a judicial school of thought that ought not to be represented on the bench," he later told Farley, Black, on the other hand, ...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal: 1932-1940
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 States—and explains how the social fabric of American ...
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The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton
This book charts the enormous growth of presidential power from its lowly state in the late nineteenth century to the imperial presidency of the twentieth.
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In the Shadow of FDR: From Harry Truman to Barack Obama
FDR's formidable presence has cast a large shadow on the occupants of that office in the years since his death, and an appreciation of his continuing influence remains essential to understanding the contemporary presidency.This new edition ...
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Herbert Hoover: The American Presidents Series: The 31st President, 1929-1933
A respected New Deal historian evaluates how the challenges of the Great Depression were initially met by the thirty-first president, exploring the ways in which his World War I campaigns and beliefs about volunteerism shaped his failed ...
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Age of Change, from Nineteen Forty-Five
Age of Change, from Nineteen Forty-Five
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A Concise History of the American Republic
"An abbreviated and revised edition of : The growth of the American Republic."--Title page verso.
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A Concise History of the American Republic
In the engaging narrative that has made this work so well received, the second edition offers fresh and incisive analyses of the American party system, the Cold War, unemployment, environmental problems, Middle East conflicts, the energy ...
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In the Shadow of FDR: From Harry Truman to Barack Obama
From Harry Truman to Barack Obama William E. Leuchtenburg. Walker Bush is no Franklin Delano Roosevelt . ” Michael Fullilove , “ George W. Bush Should Have Noted FDR's Approach to Foreign Policy , ” On Line Opinion , July 1 , 2004.
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American Places: Encounters with History
American Places celebrates the career of Sheldon Meyer, who over his years at Oxford University Press has published some of America's most distinguished historians, including many Pulitzer Prize and Bancroft Prize winners, virtually all of ...