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  • Abolishing the Taboo

    Dwight D. Eisenhower and American Nuclear Doctrine, 1945-1961

    by Brian Madison Jones ...
    Series Book 7 - Helion Studies in Military History
    In 'Abolishing the Taboo', Brian Madison Jones takes a new look at the integral role played by Dwight D. Eisenhower in the creation of a new nuclear creed for the United States during the Cold War. The author centers the narrative on Eisenhower, the man, the general, and the president, with specific focus on his intellectual and political understanding of nuclear technology in general and nuclear ... Read more

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  • Eisenhower in War and Peace

    by Jean Edward Smith ...
    **NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Christian Science Monitor • St. Louis Post-Dispatch“Magisterial.”—The New York Times**In this extraordinary volume, Jean Edward Smith presents a portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower that is as full, rich, and revealing as anything ever written about America’s thirty-fourth president. Here is Eisenhower the young dreamer, charting a course from Abilene, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom (1940–1945)

    by James MacGregor Burns ...
    Series Book 2 - Roosevelt
    The "engrossing" Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning history of FDR's final years (Barbara Tuchman).The second entry in James Macgregor Burns's definitive two-volume biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt begins with the president's precedent-breaking third term election in 1940, just as Americans were beginning to face the likelihood of war. Here, Burns examines Roosevelt's skillful ... Read more

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  • The Definitive FDR

    Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox (1882–1940) and Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom (1940–1945)

    by James MacGregor Burns ...
    Series series Roosevelt
    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 the fascinating ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt

    Champion of Freedom

    by Conrad Black ...
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt stands astride American history like a colossus, having pulled the nation out of the Great Depression and led it to victory in the Second World War. Elected to four terms as president, he transformed an inward-looking country into the greatest superpower the world had ever known. Only Abraham Lincoln did more to save America from destruction. But FDR is such a large ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Freedom from Fear:The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

    The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

    by David M. Kennedy ...
    Series series Oxford History of the United States
    Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. Freedom From Fear tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities. The Depression was both a disaster and an opportunity. As David Kennedy vividly demonstrates, the economic crisis of the 1930s was far more than a ... Read more

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  • How Ike Led

    The Principles Behind Eisenhower's Biggest Decisions

    by Susan Eisenhower ...
    "Lays bare the essence of [President Eisenhower's] leadership in war and peace—his singular devotion to the unity and security of the American people." — The Wall Street JournalFew leaders have made decisions as momentous—and varied—as Dwight D. Eisenhower. From D-Day to Little Rock, from the Korean War to Cold War crises, from the Red Scare to the Missile Gap controversies, Ike was able to give ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • The Nazi Hydra in America: Suppressed History of a Century - Wall Street and the Rise of the Fourth Reich

    by Glen Yeadon ...
    Provocative and highly controversial, The Nazi Hydra in America reveals the dark secrets of the fascist influence in the USA. While Eisenhower's troops defeated The Third Reich on the battlefields of Europe, the war against fascism was lost on the home front, to the very cadre of American plutocrats who built and paid for Hitler's war machine. At the center of this small confederacy two firms ... Read more

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  • Freedom Betrayed

    Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath

    by Herbert Hoover ...
    In Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath, former president offers a revisionist reexamination of World War II, including his frank evaluation of Franklin D. Roosevelt's foreign policies before and during the war. He also examines the war's consequences, including the expansion of the Soviet empire and the eruption of the Cold War. Herbert ... Read more

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  • Two Americans

    Truman, Eisenhower, and a Dangerous World

    by William Lee Miller ...
    Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, consecutive presidents of the United States, were midwesterners alike in many ways—except that they also sharply differed. Born within six years of each other (Truman in 1884, Eisenhower in 1890), they came from small towns in the Missouri–Mississippi River Valley—in the midst of cows and wheat, pigs and corn, and grain elevators. Both were grandsons of farmers ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • A Blueprint for War

    FDR and the Hundred Days that Mobilized America

    by Susan Dunn ...
    Series series The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series
    " Dunn shows how FDR's Third Hundred Days were critical to overcoming isolationism and rebuilding American leadership in an age of global turmoil." (E.J. Dionne Jr., New York Times bestselling co-author of One Nation After Trump)In the cold winter months that followed Franklin Roosevelt's election in November 1940 to an unprecedented third term in the White House, he confronted a worldwide ... Read more

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  • The Age of Eisenhower

    America and the World in the 1950s

    by William I Hitchcock ...
    A New York Times bestseller, this is the “outstanding” (The Atlantic), insightful, and authoritative account of Dwight Eisenhower’s presidency.Drawing on newly declassified documents and thousands of pages of unpublished material, The Age of Eisenhower tells the story of a masterful president guiding the nation through the great crises of the 1950s, from McCarthyism and the Korean War through ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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