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Book Details Title: No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin Publication Year: 1994 Awards: Pulitzer Prize for History (1995) Period: 1940-1945 Detailed Summary Doris Kearns Goodwin’s No Ordinary Time … Continue reading →

Book Details Title: The Making of the Atomic Bomb Author: Richard Rhodes Publication Year: 1986 Awards: Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award Detailed Summary Richard Rhodes’ The Making of the Atomic Bomb is widely considered the definitive account of the creation … Continue reading →

Book Details Title: Truman Author: David McCullough Publication Year: 1992 Awards: Pulitzer Prize (1993) Period: 1884–1972 Detailed Summary Truman is a sprawling, immersive biography of Harry S. Truman, the 33rd President of the United States. David McCullough charts Truman’s unlikely … Continue reading →

BOOK DETAILS • Title: The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism • Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin • Publication Year: 2013 • Subject: American History (1900-1912), Politics, Progressive Era, Journalism DETAILED SUMMARY • This … Continue reading →

BOOK DETAILS • Author: Jonathan Alter • Published: 2006 • Genre: Non-fiction, History • Awards: New York Times Bestseller • Pages: 400 pages DETAILED SUMMARY The Defining Moment is a deeply researched account of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first 100 days … Continue reading →

# Book Review: The Great Depression: A Diary ## Book Details **Title:** The Great Depression: A Diary **Author:** Benjamin Roth (edited by James Ledbetter and Daniel B. Roth) **Year Published:** 2009 (originally written 1931–1941) **Period:** US History (1929–1941) ## Detailed … Continue reading →

# Book Review: The Guns of August ## Book Details **Title:** The Guns of August **Author:** Barbara W. Tuchman **Year Published:** 1962 **Awards:** Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1963) **Period:** US/European History 1900-1945 (focusing on 1914) ## Detailed Summary “The … Continue reading →

Book Details Author: Lynne Olson Publisher: Random House Year of Publication: 2013 Page Count: 528 pages Detailed Summary Those Angry Days is a gripping narrative history that captures the intense and often bitter national debate in the United States regarding … Continue reading →

Book Details Author: Timothy Egan Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Year: 2006 Page Count: 352 Detailed Summary The Worst Hard Time is a gripping work of narrative history that chronicles the human experience of the Dust Bowl during the 1930s. Egan traces … Continue reading →