American History

A printer's rise in colonial America and his chart for practising thirteen virtues.

How rival federal agencies dammed the American West's rivers for water projects.

How Chicago and its western hinterland grew together as city and frontier.

How the Chicago mob ran Las Vegas casinos, told through bookie Frank Rosenthal.

How young directors and drugs remade Hollywood in the 1970s, from Easy Rider on.

How Lyndon Johnson mastered the Senate's rules and became its majority leader.

Hamilton's life from the West Indies to the Treasury and his duel with Aaron Burr.

Tests the popular comparison of America with ancient Rome and finds deep differences.

American life in the 1920s, from the Armistice to the crash.

The standard mid-century Franklin biography; Munger's model of a working life

How American life changed between 1900 and 1950.

The 1787 Federal Convention in Philadelphia that wrote the US Constitution.

Theodore Roosevelt's life from his birth in 1858 to the presidency in 1901.

How Americans chose separate suburban houses and how that shaped the country.

Water control as the basis of power in the arid American West.

A Pennsylvania steel town from Carnegie's purchase in 1883 to the 1986 closure.

Harry Truman's life and presidency, from the atomic bomb to the Korean War.

Franklin's life as printer, scientist, diplomat and founder.

How Lincoln brought his three rivals for the 1860 nomination into his cabinet.

Joseph P. Kennedy's life in banking, film, the stock market and politics.

New York's 1975 fiscal crisis and the austerity politics it taught the nation.

How federal housing policy engineered segregation.

How McDonald's and fast-food franchising became bound up with Black America.

Six friends, including Acheson, Harriman and Kennan, who shaped US foreign policy.

Clifford Irving's fake autobiography of Howard Hughes, reported as it unravelled.

Contemporary anatomy of the same fiscal crisis, written from the numbers.

Documentary history of the strike, assembled from contemporary sources.

How Las Vegas grew from the Rat Pack era into a family holiday city.

Franklin's reinvention from imperial gentleman into American businessman

African American co-operative economics, a history largely written out.

Detroit's Chapter 9 bankruptcy, the largest by a US city, from inside the case.

An abolitionist's life in slavery and his fight for the full freedom of Black people.

A general's own account of his career, from West Point cadet to head of Union armies.

Narrative of the American West's mining and railroad fortunes

An interpretation of the New Deal and of the historians who have written on it.

Clarence Darrow's 1912 bribery trial in Los Angeles, and the lawyer's life around it.

American history as a repeating cycle of four generational turnings, each 20 years.

A general's own account of his career, from West Point cadet to head of Union armies.

A life of Benjamin Franklin, the foremost American of his day.

The 1893 Chicago World's Fair: its architect, and a serial killer working beside it.

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The Great Depression told through the stories of the common people who endured it.

Nixon's political career from Congress to the White House and the strategies he used.

Money and power inside the Metropolitan Museum.

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Four centuries of New Yorkers' diaries, from Henry Hudson to Mark Twain and on.

America in the summer of 1927: a booming stock market, a great flood and more.

The University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew and their quest for Olympic gold.

How presidents from Madison to Lyndon Johnson took America to war and gained power.

The little-known offences of the British crown against its own American subjects.

Conversations with leading historians.

Joseph Kennedy's contested years as US ambassador to Britain on the eve of war.

Subtitled Dialogues on a Dream.

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