Books by David M. Kennedy
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
by David M. Kennedy
🏆 Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for History
“In Freedom from Fear, Kennedy condenses—into one very large volume—the story of how Roosevelt brought the country out of the Great Depression and into World War II. He begins in the Hoover years and explores some of the structural problems with the economy. He takes you right through the New Deal years, including the failure of New Deal programs during the late 1930s when political opposition mounted. And he carries you all the way through World War II and the early years of the Cold War that immediately followed.” Read more...
The best books on Franklin D. Roosevelt
Cynthia Koch, Historian
Interviews where books by David M. Kennedy were recommended
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No Right to An Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era
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Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
by Jefferson Cowie -
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Cuba: An American History
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Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
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Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
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Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
by Caleb McDaniel
Pulitzer Prize-Winning History Books
Pulitzer Prize-Winning History Books
Every year, the Pulitzer Prize jury awards $15,000 to a “distinguished and appropriately documented book on the history of the United States.” We’ve compiled a guide to the winning books since the turn of the millennium.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
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Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
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It Can't Happen Here
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Eleanor Roosevelt: The Defining Years: Volume Two 1933-1938
by Blanche Wiesen Cook
The best books on Franklin D. Roosevelt, recommended by Cynthia Koch
The best books on Franklin D. Roosevelt, recommended by Cynthia Koch
Historians consistently rank FDR, the 32nd and longest-serving president of the United States, as among America’s greatest. Here, Cynthia Koch, Director of History Programing for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Foundation, talks us through his life and explains how, in many ways, his guile was key to his success.
