H W Brands: 23 books
Reagan
de biografie
Language: Dutch
Release Date: February 19, 2016
De B-acteur die president werd en de Koude Oorlog beëindigde
Reagan is de eerste Nederlandse biografie over de 40e Amerikaanse president.
Ruim 10 jaar na zijn overlijden vertelt meesterverteller H.W. Brands het verhaal van Ronald Reagan (1911-2004). De jonge ‘Dutch’ groeide...
Reagan
The Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
From master storyteller and New York Times bestselling Historian H. W. Brands comes the definitive biography of a visionary and transformative president
In his magisterial new biography, H. W. Brands brilliantly establishes Ronald Reagan as one of the two great presidents of the twentieth...
The Devil We Knew
Americans and the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1994
In the late 1950s, Washington was driven by its fear of communist subversion: it saw the hand of Kremlin behind developments at home and across the globe. The FBI was obsessed with the threat posed by American communist party--yet party membership had sunk so low, writes H.W. Brands, that it could...
by H.W. Brands
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
From the early years of fur trading to today's Silicon Valley empires, America has proved to be an extraordinarily fertile land for the creation of enormous fortunes. Each generation has produced one or two phenomenally successful leaders, often in new industries that caught contemporaries by surprise,...
The Man Who Saved the Union
Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
From New York Times bestselling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the White House, holding the country together at two critical turning points in our history.
Ulysses Grant rose from...
by H. W. Brands
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 1992
From the day Commodore Dewey's battleships destroyed the Spanish fleet at Manila to the closing of the Subic Bay naval base in 1992 America and the Philippines have shared a long and tangled history. It has been a century of war and colonialism earnest reforms and blatant corruption diplomatic maneuvering...
Heirs of the Founders
The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
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 of the Founding Fathers and decide the future of our democracy
In the early 1800s, three young men strode...
Andrew Jackson
His Life and Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
National Bestseller
In this, the first major single-volume biography of Andrew Jackson in decades, H.W. Brands reshapes our understanding of this fascinating man, and of the Age of Democracy that he ushered in.
An orphan at a young age and without formal education or the family lineage...
Greenback Planet
How the Dollar Conquered the World and Threatened Civilization as We Know It
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The world runs on the U.S. dollar. From Washington to Beijing, governments, businesses, and individuals rely on the dollar to conduct commerce and invest profitably and safely—even after the global financial meltdown in 2008 revealed the potentially catastrophic cost of the dollar's hegemony. But...
T.R.
The Last Romantic
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
From the New York Times bestselling author, an acclaimed biography of President Teddy Roosevelt
Lauded as "a rip-roaring life" (Wall Street Journal), TR is a magisterial biography of Theodore Roosevelt by bestselling author H.W. Brands. In his time, there was no more popular national...
by H. W. Brands
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Though he was a hero of the Revolutionary War, a prominent New York politician, and vice president of the United States, Aaron Burr is today best remembered as the villain who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
But as H. W. Brands demonstrates in this fascinating portrait of one of the most...
by H. W. Brands
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
In a grand-scale narrative history, the bestselling author of two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize now captures the decades when capitalism was at its most unbridled and a few breathtakingly wealthy businessmen utterly transformed America from an agrarian economy to a world power.
The years...
by H. W. Brands
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
An "insightful" (Publishers Weekly) history of the development of American capitalism and the men who made it great.
Most Americans are familiar with the political history of the United States, but there is another history woven all through it, a largely forgotten history—the story...
Traitor to His Class
The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A brilliant evocation of the qualities that made FDR one of the most beloved and greatest of American presidents.
Drawing on archival material, public speeches, correspondence and accounts by those closest to Roosevelt early in his career and during his presidency,...
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