Robert Dallek: 12 books
by Robert Dallek
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Robert Dallek's masterful John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life was a number one national bestseller, and it remains the most widely read one-volume biography of the 35th President. Now, in this marvelous short biography of John F. Kennedy, Dallek achieves a miracle of compression, capturing in a small...
Nixon and Kissinger
Partners in Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
With the publication of his magisterial biography of John F. Kennedy, An Unfinished Life, Robert Dallek cemented his reputation as one of the greatest historians of our time. Now, in this epic joint biography, he offers a provocative, groundbreaking portrait of a pair of outsize leaders whose unlikely...
Camelot's Court
Inside the Kennedy White House
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Fifty years after John F. Kennedy’s assassination, presidential historian Robert Dallek, whom The New York Times calls “Kennedy’s leading biographer,” delivers a riveting new portrait of this president and his inner circle of advisors—their rivalries, personality clashes, and political battles....
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A Political Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
**Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and NPR
“We come to see in FDR the magisterial, central figure in the greatest and richest political tapestry of our nation’s entire history” —Nigel Hamilton, Boston Globe
“Meticulously researched and authoritative” —Douglas...
Flawed Giant
Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 1998
Flawed Giant--the monumental concluding volume to Robert Dallek's biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson--provides the most through, engrossing account ever published of Johnson's years in the national spotlight. Drawing on hours of newly released White House tapes and dozens of interviews with people...
The Lost Peace
Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope, 1945-1953
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
"Robert Dallek brings to this majestic work a profound understanding of history, a deep engagement in foreign policy, and a lifetime of studying leadership. The story of what went wrong during the postwar period…has never been more intelligently explored." —Doris Kearns Goodwin, author...
Democrat and Diplomat: The Life of William E. Dodd
The Life of William E. Dodd
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Robert Dallek, a luminary in the field of political biography--author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Nixon and Kissinger and the New York Times bestselling biography of John F. Kennedy--offers here a look at the life of William Dodd, an American diplomat stationed in Nazi Germany. An insightful historical...
Lone Star Rising:Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960
Vol. 1: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1991
Like other great figures of 20th-century American politics, Lyndon Johnson defies easy understanding. An unrivaled master of vote swapping, back room deals, and election-day skulduggery, he was nevertheless an outspoken New Dealer with a genuine commitment to the poor and the underprivileged. And...
Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President
Portrait of a President
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2004
Robert Dallek's brilliant two-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson has received an avalanche of praise. Michael Beschloss, in The Los Angeles Times, said that it "succeeds brilliantly." The New York Times called it "rock solid" and The Washington Post hailed it as "invaluable."...
An Unfinished Life
John F. Kennedy, 1917 - 1963
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
Everywhere acclaimed for its compelling narrative, its fresh insights, and its dispassionate appraisal of John F. Kennedy's presidency, this #1 national bestseller is the first full-scale single-volume biography of JFK to be written by a historian in nearly four decades. Drawing on previously unavailable...
Harry S. Truman
The American Presidents Series: The 33rd President, 1945-1953
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
The plainspoken man from Missouri who never expected to be president yet rose to become one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century
In April 1945, after the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the presidency fell to a former haberdasher and clubhouse politician from Independence, Missouri....
Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945
With a New Afterword
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 1995
Since the original publication of this classic book in 1979, Roosevelt's foreign policy has come under attack on three main points: Was Roosevelt responsible for the confrontation with Japan that led to the attack at Pearl Harbor? Did Roosevelt "give away" Eastern Europe to Stalin and the...