This study examines the successes, struggles, and personal life of the nationally recognized historian Robert H. Ferrell. His life history provides insight into postmodernism, the New Left, and the art…

Harry Truman was born on May 8, 1884. At the age of sixty-one, Truman was sworn in as the thirty-third president of the United States. This volume covers: campaigns, elections…

When Grace Anna Goodhue wed Calvin Coolidge in 1905, she thought then that marriage has seldom united two people of more vastly different temperaments and tastes. Warm to her husband’s…

This analysis of Coolidge’s presidency seeks to show how he represented the essence of 1920s Republicanism. Examining his domestic and foreign policy, the author illuminates the pre-Depression administration and reveals…

Examines four sometimes maligned, sometimes misunderstood presidents: Woodrow Wilson, Warren G Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Harry S Truman. The author also incorporates comments on Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt as…

This is a collection of private papers from family correspondence, testy letters never sent, memoranda, an off-and-on diary, and complaints about the restrictions of the White prison . It covers…

An exploration of the nuclear arms race and the dangers arising with the advent of limited warfare. These essays demonstrate that the making of foreign policy is immensely complicated, not…