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National Study: USA: Historians for Consideration

Year 12 Modern History

Historians for Consideration

The most well-known, relevant books are listed. Some of these books may be available at local and state libraries. You can access their viewpoints via book reviews, academic articles and interviews as well.

David Beito

The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights (2023) Review: 

 

Conrad Black

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom (2003)

 

HW Brands

Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (2008) Review: 

 

David Burner

Herbert Hoover: A Public Life (1979) Review: 

 

Paul Conkin

The New Deal, 1968 Tomorrow a new world: The New Deal Community Program, 1959

 

Robert Dallek

Hail to the Chief: The Making and Unmaking of American Presidents (1996)

Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life (2017) Review: 

 

Linda Gordon

Pitied but Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare 1890-1935 (1998)

 

David M Kennedy

Freedom From Fear (2001) Interview with: 

 

Ira Katznelson

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America (2010)

 

Willian Leutenburg

The Perils of Prosperity 1914- 1932, 1993

Herbert Hoover, 2009

Franklin D Roosevelt and the New Deal 1963

The FDR Years: On Roosevelt and His Legacy 1997

The American President, 2019

 

James MacGregor Burns

Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox 1882- 1940 (1956)

Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom (1973) Review: 

 

Ted Morgan

FDR: A Biography (1985)

 

Jim Powel

FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression, 2003

 

Richard Rothstein

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America  (2017)

 

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

The Coming of the New Deal 1933- 1935 (2003)

 

David Shannon

Between the Wars: America 1914-1941 (1979)

 

Geoffrey C. Ward

The Roosevelts (2014)