American History

In A Man and His Presidents: The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr., Alvin S. Felzenberg sheds light on little-known aspects of the most influential American conservative writer, activist, and organizer in the postwar era. In The Gifted Generation: When Government Was Good, a sweeping history of the post-World War II decades, David Goldfield examines the generation immediately after WWII and argues that the federal government was instrumental in the great economic, social, and environmental progress of the era.