A renowned historian recounts how President Roosevelt inspired the country and changed forever the political, social, economic, and even the physical landscape of the United States--Cover.

This book charts the enormous growth of presidential power from its lowly state in the late nineteenth century to the imperial presidency of the twentieth.

This superbly crafted book sheds new light on the great Constitutional crisis of the century, illuminating the legal and political battles that created today's Supreme Court.

This new edition of In the Shadow of FDR has been updated to examine Bill Clinton's presidency, including possible parallels between Hillary Clinton and Eleanor Roosevelt.

**** Reprint of the Cornell UP revision of 1985. The first edition (1983) is cited in BCL3. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

A Documentary report on the events which occured between 1932 and 1940 including the Fascist challenge and an end to isolation.

"At a time when race, class, and gender dominate historical writing, Leuchtenburg argues that place is no less significant.

"This book traces the political, economic, social, and cultural phenomena that transformed America from an agrarian, primarily decentralized, moralistic, isolationist nation into an industrial, urban morally liberalized nation involved in ...