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Showing 1 - 12 of 27 results for “james macgregor burns”
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  • The American Experiment

    The Vineyard of Liberty, The Workshop of Democracy, and The Crosswinds of Freedom

    by James MacGregor Burns ...
    Series series The American Experiment
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning author's stunning trilogy of American history, spanning the birth of the Constitution to the final days of the Cold War.In these three volumes, Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winner James MacGregor Burns chronicles with depth and narrative panache the most significant cultural, economic, and political events of American history. In The Vineyard of Liberty, he ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Vineyard of Liberty, 1787–1863

    by James MacGregor Burns ...
    Series Book 1 - The American Experiment
    A Pulitzer Prize winner looks at the course of American history from the birth of the Constitution to the dawn of the Civil War.The years between 1787 and 1863 witnessed the development of the American Nation—its society, politics, customs, culture, and, most important, the development of liberty. Burns explores the key events in the republic's early decades, as well as the roles of heroes from ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $32.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Fire and Light

    How the Enlightenment Transformed Our World

    by James MacGregor Burns ...
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian explores history's most daring and transformational intellectual movement, the European and American Enlightenment.In this engaging, provocative history, James MacGregor Burns illuminates the two-hundred-year conflagration of the Enlightenment, when audacious questions and astonishing ideas tore across Europe and the New World. They transformed thought, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Transforming Leadership

    by James MacGregor Burns ...
    The New York Times–bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner examines the history of leadership, and the crucial role of leaders in a healthy democracy.In Transforming Leadership, James MacGregor Burns illuminates the evolution of leadership structures—from the chieftains of tribal African societies, through Europe's absolute monarchies, to the blossoming of the Enlightenment's ideals of ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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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 ...
    Narrated by David Stifel ...

    Unabridged

    51 hours 55 min

    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 political figure who instituted the New Deal.Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox (1882–1940): Before his ascension to the presidency, FDR ... Read more

    $54.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox (1882–1940)

    by James MacGregor Burns ...
    Series Book 1 - Roosevelt
    "A brilliant full-length portrait of Franklin Roosevelt the politician"—the first in an award-winning two-volume biography ( The Christian Science Monitor).Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the longest serving president in United States history, reshaping the country during the crises of the Great Depression and World War II. But before his ascension to the presidency, FDR laid the groundwork for his ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • John Kennedy

    A Political Profile

    by James MacGregor Burns ...
    The authorized biography of John F. Kennedy offers a fresh and candid look at what shaped the man America came to love and admire, just as he was on the cusp of the presidencyHistorian, political scientist, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author James MacGregor Burns wrote Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox, the first volume of his highly acclaimed biography of FDR, in 1956. Two years later, Burns ran for ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Leadership

    by James MacGregor Burns ...
    A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian examines transformational leaders from Moses to Machiavelli to Martin Luther King Jr. in this "impressive book" ( The Washington Post).Historian and political scientist James MacGregor Burns has spent much of his career documenting the use and misuse of power by leaders throughout history. In this groundbreaking study, Burns examines the qualities that make ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Three Roosevelts

    Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America

    by James MacGregor Burns, Susan Dunn ...
    An "immensely interesting" account of how Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor led the United States through some of its most turbulent decades (David McCullough).The Three Roosevelts is the extraordinary political biography of the intertwining lives of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt, who emerged from the closed society of New York's Knickerbocker elite to become the most prominent American ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Packing the Court

    The Rise of Judicial Power and the Coming Crisis of the Supreme Court

    by James Macgregor Burns ...
    From renowned political theorist James MacGregor Burns, an incisive critique of the overreaching power of an ideological Supreme CourtFor decades, Pulitzer Prize-winner James MacGregor Burns has been one of the great masters of the study of power and leadership in America. In Packing the Court, he turns his eye to the U.S. Supreme Court, an institution that he believes has become more powerful, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Workshop of Democracy, 1863–1932

    by James MacGregor Burns ...
    Series Book 2 - The American Experiment
    The second volume of Burns's acclaimed history of America, from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the Great DepressionAbraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address pointed to a new way to preserve an old hope—that democracy might prove a vibrant and lasting form of government for people of different races, religions, and aspirations. The scars of the Civil War would not soon heal, but with that ... Read more

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