James Macgregor Burns: 16 books
Fire and Light
How the Enlightenment Transformed Our World
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
"With this profound and magnificent book, drawing on his deep reservoir of thought and expertise in the humanities, James MacGregor Burns takes us into the fire's center. As a 21st-century philosopher, he brings to vivid life the incandescent personalities and ideas that embody the best in Western...
Packing the Court
The Rise of Judicial Power and the Coming Crisis of the Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
From renowned political theorist James MacGregor Burns, an incisive critique of the overreaching power of an ideological Supreme Court
For decades, Pulitzer Prize-winner James MacGregor Burns has been one of the great masters of the study of power and leadership in America. In Packing the Court,...
John Kennedy
A Political Profile
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
The authorized biography of John F. Kennedy offers a fresh and candid look at what shaped the man America came to love and admire, just as he was on the cusp of the presidency
Historian, political scientist, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author James MacGregor Burns wrote Roosevelt: The Lion...
The American Experiment
The Vineyard of Liberty, The Workshop of Democracy, and The Crosswinds of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s stunning trilogy of American history, spanning the birth of the Constitution to the final days of the Cold War.
In these three volumes, Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winner James MacGregor Burns chronicles with depth and narrative...
by James MacGregor Burns
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
“A brilliant full-length portrait of Franklin Roosevelt the politician”—the first in an award-winning two-volume biography (The Christian Science Monitor).
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the longest serving president in United States history, reshaping the country during the crises of...
by James MacGregor Burns
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian examines transformational leaders from Moses to Machiavelli to Martin Luther King Jr. in this “impressive book” (The Washington Post).
Historian and political scientist James MacGregor Burns has spent much of his career documenting the use and misuse...
Running Alone
Presidential Leadership from JFK to Bush II
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Since mid-century, America has witnessed an ominous decline in presidential leadership, culminating in the failing presidency of George W. Bush today. How did this happen? In Running Alone, the distinguished political scientist and leadership expert James MacGregor Burns finds the origin of the problem...
by James MacGregor Burns
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
The “engrossing” Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning history of FDR’s final years (Barbara Tuchman).
The second entry in James Macgregor Burns’s definitive two-volume biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt begins with the president’s precedent-breaking third term election...
George Washington
The American Presidents Series: The 1st President, 1789-1797
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
A premier leadership scholar and an eighteenth-century expert define the special contributions and qualifications of our first president
Revolutionary hero, founding president, and first citizen of the young republic, George Washington was the most illustrious public man of his time, a man...
The Three Roosevelts
Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
An “immensely interesting” account of how Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor led the United States through some of its most turbulent decades (David McCullough).
The Three Roosevelts is the extraordinary political biography of the intertwining lives of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt,...
by James MacGregor Burns
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The New York Times–bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner examines the history of leadership, and the crucial role of leaders in a healthy democracy.
In Transforming Leadership, James MacGregor Burns illuminates the evolution of leadership structures—from the chieftains of tribal...
by James MacGregor Burns
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Here, in this essay by James MacGregor Burns, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, is the story of the last days of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's life and the emotional and memorable memorials that followed.
Dead Center
Clinton-Gore Leadership and the Perils of Moderation
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 1999
"The urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy....To renew America, we must be bold...must revitalize our democracy....Together with our friends and allies, we will work to shape change, lest it engulf us."
With those inaugural words, William Jefferson...
by James MacGregor Burns
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
A Pulitzer Prize winner looks at the course of American history from the birth of the Constitution to the dawn of the Civil War.
The years between 1787 and 1863 witnessed the development of the American Nation—its society, politics, customs, culture, and, most important, the development...
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