William Leuchtenburg

William E. Leuchtenburg (born 1922) is William Rand Kenan Jr. professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill at Chapel Hill 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 [1], 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 and Richard B. Morris. He won the 2007 North Carolina Award for Literature [2].

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)

External links

• Interview in Smithsonian magazine
• Interviewed on Humankind public radio show