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In the end, Americans claimed victory in the Cold War, but Brands gives us reason to tone down the celebration. This wide-reaching history makes clear that the Cold War was simultaneously far more, and far less, than we ever imagined at the time.

At the height of the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman committed a gaffe that sent shock waves around the world, when he suggested that General Douglas MacArthur, the willful, fearless, and highly decorated commander of the American and U.N. forces, had his finger on the nuclear trigger. At a time when the Soviets, too, had the bomb, the specter of a catastrophic third World War lurked menacingly close on the horizon. A correction quickly ...

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American Stories' concentrates on the topics most commonly taught in an American history survey course, with a focus on the major themes and the connections between them. Pedagogical features include quick-check questions, glossary entries in the margins, chapter reviews and sample essay questions.

American political scholarship has so focused on Vietnam that little attention has been paid to Johnson's foreign policy in other regions of the world. Recently some scholars have moved beyond Vietnam to examine other aspects of American dealings with the world during the Johnson years. In this volume, H.W. Brands has gathered new work from some of the most important of these scholars, not only addressing regions other than Vietnam but also as...

A portrait of the crucially important president and his era, by the "New York Times" bestselling author who has been nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize.

With keen insight and an impeccable sense of the spirit of the times, Brands, one of today's preeminent historians, captures the American experience through the last six decades. He chronicles politics, pop culture, and everything in between.

An engaging and intimate portrait of the controversial early American politician Aaron Burr, by bestselling historian Brands.

Even before he was shot dead on the stairway of the tony Grand Central Hotel in 1872, financier James "Jubilee Jim" Fisk, Jr., was a notorious New York City figure. From his audacious attempt to corner the gold market in 1869 to his battle for control of the geographically crucial Erie Railroad, Fisk was a flamboyant exemplar of a new financial era marked by volatile fortunes and unprecedented greed and corruption. But it was his scandalously ...

With fascinating stories of money men, from Alexander Hamilton to Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke, and deft explanations of the ins and outs of monetary policy, Greenback Planet clarifies why the dollar rules the world--and why that should frighten us all

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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 of the money men. Acclaimed historian H. W. Brands brings them back to life: J. P. Morgan, who stabilized a foundering U.S. Treasury in 1907, Alexander Hamilton, who founded the first national bank, and Nicholas Biddle, under whose directorship it failed, Jay Cooke, who helped to ...

This book is an intellectual and moral history of US foreign policy, and a guide to the fundamental question of America's relations with the rest of the world.

This book is an intellectual and moral history of US foreign policy, and a guide to the fundamental question of America's relations with the rest of the world.

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 century, a true peer to Franklin Roosevelt. Reagan conveys with sweep and vigor how the confident force of Reagan's personality and the unwavering nature of ...

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 century, a true peer to Franklin Roosevelt. Reagan conveys with sweep and vigor how the confident force of Reagan's personality and the unwavering nature of ...

The end of the Cold War created a near-euphoria that nations might rely less on military force and that the Doomsday nuclear clock mights up short of midnight. Events soon dashed the higher of these hopes, but the nature of military force and the uses to which it might be put did appear to be changing. Here, eleven scholars address the political, moral, and military factors in the decision to use or avoid military force. Case studies of the Gu...

From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II. At the height of the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman committed a gaffe that sent shock waves around the world. When asked by a reporter about the possible use of atomic weapons in response to China's entry into the war, Truman repli...

Pulitzer Prize FinalistBenjamin Franklin, perhaps the pivotal figure in colonial and revolutionary America, comes vividly to life in this masterly biography. Wit, diplomat, scientist, philosopher, businessman, inventor, and bon vivant, Benjamin Franklin was in every respect America's first Renaissance man. From penniless runaway to highly successful printer, from ardently loyal subject of Britain to architect of an alliance with France that en...

The California Gold Rush inspired a new American dream-the "dream of instant wealth, won by audacity and good luck." The discovery of gold on the American River in 1848 triggered the most astonishing mass movement of peoples since the Crusades. It drew fortune-seekers from the ends of the earth, accelerated America's imperial expansion, and exacerbated the tensions that exploded in the Civil War. H.W. Brands tells his epic story from multiple ...