William Leuchtenburg
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William E. Leuchtenburg is William Rand Kenan Jr. professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States...

 at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Chapel Hill is a town in Orange County, North Carolina, United States and the home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UNC Health Care...

 and a leading scholar of the life and career of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He is the author of more than a dozen books on 20th century history http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/may97/leuchx.html, including the Bancroft Prize-winning Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940 (1963), a volume in the New American Nation series co-edited by his mentor Henry Steele Commager
Henry Steele Commager
Henry Steele Commager was an American historian who helped define Modern liberalism in the United States for two generations through his forty books and 700 essays and reviews...

 and Richard B. Morris
Richard B. Morris
Richard Brandon Morris was an American historian best known for his pioneering work in colonial American legal history and the early history of American labor. In later years, he shifted his research interests to the constitutional, diplomatic, and political history of the American Revolution and...

. He won the 2007 North Carolina Award
North Carolina Award
The North Carolina Award is the highest civilian award bestowed by the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is awarded in the four fields of science, literature, the fine arts, and public service....

 for Literature http://college.unc.edu/features/november2007/article.2007-11-28.1519648318.

Selected bibliography

  • Flood Control Politics: The Connecticut River Valley Problem, 1927-1950 (1953)

  • The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-32 (1958) ISBN 9780226473710

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940 (1963)

  • A Troubled Feast: American Society Since 1945 (1983)

  • In the Shadow of FDR: From Harry Truman to Bill Clinton (1993)

  • The Supreme Court Reborn: The Constitutional Revolution in the Age of Roosevelt (1995)

  • The FDR Years: On Roosevelt and His Legacy (1995)

  • The White House Looks South: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson (2005)

  • Herbert Hoover (The American Presidents Series) (2009)

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