William Leuchtenburg

William E. Leuchtenburg (b. 1922) is William Rand Kenan Jr. professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill at Chapel Hill and the leading scholar of the life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He is the author of more than a dozen books on 20th century history, [1] and 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)

• 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