James MacGregor Burns, Author . Atlantic Monthly $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-87113-866-8
Twenty-five years after the publication of Leadership, Burns expands upon his theories about how leaders cultivate their successors to explore how they create environments conducive to social and personal development. He distinguishes between "tr
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James MacGregor Burns, Author . Penguin Press $27.95 (326p) ISBN 978-1-59420-219-3
Pulitzer-winning historian Burns gives a brisk, readable tour of the history of the appointment of Supreme Court justices since 1789. In this respect, the book is fresh and compelling. But Burns (Running Alone
) has another aim. Particularly...
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James MacGregor Burns, Author Vintage Books USA $25 (670p) ISBN 978-0-394-74320-2
This second volume of Burns's American Experiment series covers the nation's postCivil War development and turn-of-the-century growth as a significant power on the world stage. PW found that the author ""delineates the political, economic, cultural...
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James MacGregor Burns, Author Knopf Publishing Group $35 (864p) ISBN 978-0-394-51276-1
Immensely readable, epic in scope yet intimately personal in detail, this sweeping 864-page history of the United States extends from FDR's nomination to the presidency in 1932 to the election of George Bush. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Burns...
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James MacGregor Burns, Author Basic Books $26 (278p) ISBN 978-0-465-00832-2
In this eloquent and tightly written history of late 20th century presidential politics, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and author Burns (Transforming Leadership) offers his own take on modern presidents from JFK to George W. Bush, attempting to...
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James MacGregor Burns. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-02489-3
You’d expect this book from an author who claims F.D.R. as a hero. Burns’s 18th- and 19th-century Enlightenment—the flourishing of ideas that’s the subject of this book—is essentially the New Deal writ large, the story of intentional improvement...
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James MacGregor Burns, Author, Stewart Burns, With Alfred A. Knopf $30 (577p) ISBN 978-0-394-57763-0
Published on the 200th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights, this grand, sweeping chronicle of the struggle for political and economic justice concludes that rights measures in the U.S. have been ``too little, too late, too short-liv
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James MacGregor Burns, Author, Susan Dunn, Joint Author Atlantic Monthly Press $37.5 (544p) ISBN 978-0-87113-780-7
As president, Theodore Roosevelt modeled himself after the man he admired mostDhis father, who believed in moral justiceDand after the man his father admired mostDPresident Lincoln, for his ability to be both a radical reformer and a shrewdly...
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James MacGregor Burns, Author, Norman Dietz, Read by , read by Norman Dietz. Tantor Audio $34.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4001-1211-1
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Burns's latest is a jeremiad against the influence and unelected power of the Supreme Court. Burns ably guides reader through a brief history of the court, concentrating on its instances of overreaching the...
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James MacGregor Burns, Author, Hermes, Author, Burns, Author Simon & Schuster $27.5 (416p) ISBN 978-0-684-83778-9
As controversial as Bill Clinton's spicy personal behavior has been, Burns and Sorenson take the president to the woodshed for what they see as his vanilla political behavior. Burns, 1971 Pulitzer Prize winner for Roosevelt: Soldier of Freedom, and...
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Susan Dunn, Author, James MacGregor Burns, Author, Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr., Editor . Holt/Times $20 (208p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6936-5
Like other volumes in the American Presidents series, edited by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., this biographical essay focuses on a handful of themes through which to examine Washington's life before and during his presidency. The book's first half
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Martin Jacques, Author, James MacGregor Burns, Author . Penguin Press $29.95 (576p) ISBN 978-1-59420-185-1
A convincing economic, political and cultural analysis of waning Western dominance and the rise of China and a new paradigm of modernity. Jacques (The Politics of Thatcherism
) takes the pulse of the nation poised to become, by virtue of its scale...
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