Review of “Traitor to His Class” by H.W. Brands
“Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt” is H.W. Brands’s 2008 biography of …
“Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt” is H.W. Brands’s 2008 biography of …
“FDR” is Jean Edward Smith’s 2007 biography of the thirty-second U.S. president and is the 2008 recipient of the Francis …
“The Presidency of Herbert C. Hoover” by Martin Fausold was published in 1984 and is a member of the American …
First published in 1947, Eugene Lyons’s “Herbert Hoover: A Biography” was updated and republished in 1964 shortly after Hoover’s death. …
Few American presidents were as unknown to me as James Garfield before I started this journey through the best presidential …
“Herbert Hoover: A Public Life” by David Burner was first published in 1979 and is widely recognized as the most …
Published in 2009, “Herbert Hoover” by William E. Leuchtenburg is a member of The American Presidents Series. Leuchtenburg is professor …
Prior to my journey through the best presidential biographies, Herbert Hoover and I had never met. I don’t mean in …
My introduction to Calvin Coolidge on this journey included seven biographies providing nearly 3,000 pages – and almost two months …
When published in 1998, Robert Sobel’s “Coolidge: An American Enigma” was the first comprehensive biography of Coolidge to appear in …
It’s hard to believe but three years have elapsed since I started this journey. When I began in December 2012 …
“Calvin Coolidge: The Quiet President” is Donald McCoy’s 1967 biography of Coolidge. McCoy was a professor of history at the …
“A Puritan in Babylon: The Story of Calvin Coolidge” is William Allen White’s 1938 biography of the 30th U.S. president. …
Published in 1939, Claude Fuess’s “Calvin Coolidge: The Man from Vermont” is one of the earliest cradle-to-grave biographies of Coolidge. …
“The Life of Calvin Coolidge” by Horace Green was one of several biographies of Coolidge published in 1924 during the …