Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: james macgregor burns

8 resultados

james macgregor burns Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • THE DEMOCRATS MUST LEAD
    JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS / WILLIAM J CROTTY / LOIS LOVELACE DUKE / LAWRENCE D LONGLEY
    All over the world, political parties are being born and political pluralism is being fostered. Ironically, here in the United States, the parties are blurring together ideologically, and the political process is suffering. One of the messages of this book is that a vital two-party system is essential to America’s political health. The last thing this country needs, the authors...

    $1,099.00

  • THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT
    JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s stunning trilogy of American history, spanning the birth of the Constitution to the final days of the Cold War.   In these three volumes, Pulitzer Prize–­ and National Book Award–winner James MacGregor Burns chronicles with depth and narrative panache the most significant cultural, economic, and political events of American history. In The Vi...

    $329.00

  • THE WORKSHOP OF DEMOCRACY, 1863–1932
    JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS
    The second volume of Burns’s acclaimed history of America, from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the Great Depression   Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address pointed to a new way to preserve an old hope—that democracy might prove a vibrant and lasting form of government for people of different races, religions, and aspirations. The scars of the Civil War would not so...

    $229.00

  • THE THREE ROOSEVELTS
    JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS / SUSAN DUNN
    An “immensely interesting” account of how Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor led the United States through some of its most turbulent decades (David McCullough).   The Three Roosevelts is the extraordinary political biography of the intertwining lives of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt, who emerged from the closed society of New York’s Knickerbocker elite to become the m...

    $249.00

  • THE DEFINITIVE FDR
    JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS
    A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian’s dramatic biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, US president during the Depression and WWII. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the longest serving president in US history, reshaping the country during the crises of the Great Depression and World War II. James MacGregor Burns’s magisterial two-volume biography tells the complete life story of th...

    $329.00

  • THE CROSSWINDS OF FREEDOM, 1932–1988
    JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS
    A Pulitzer Prize winner’s “immensely readable” history of the United States from FDR’s election to the final days of the Cold War (Publishers Weekly).  The Crosswinds of Freedom is an articulate and incisive examination of the United States during its rise to become the world’s sole superpower. Here is a young democracy transformed by the Great Depression, the Second World War,...

    $229.00

  • THE VINEYARD OF LIBERTY, 1787–1863
    JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS
    A Pulitzer Prize winner looks at the course of American history from the birth of the Constitution to the dawn of the Civil War.  The years between 1787 and 1863 witnessed the development of the American Nation—its society, politics, customs, culture, and, most important, the development of liberty. Burns explores the key events in the republic’s early decades, as well as the r...

    $229.00

  • JOHN KENNEDY
    JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS
    The authorized biography of John F. Kennedy offers a fresh and candid look at what shaped the man America came to love and admire, just as he was on the cusp of the presidency Historian, political scientist, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author James MacGregor Burns wrote Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox, the first volume of his highly acclaimed biography of FDR, in 1956. Two years...

    $229.00