H. W. Brands

H. W. Brands at the 2008 Texas Book Festival.

Henry William "Bill" Brands is an American historian and author of 22 books, co-author of 2 and editor of 4, he is also a Professor at the University of Texas at Austin where he earned his Ph.D. in history in 1985. He graduated from Stanford University in 1975 with a B.A. in history and from Jesuit High School in Portland, Oregon. He resides in Austin, Texas. In June 2009 he and eleven other distinguished historians had dinner at the White House with President Barack Obama.

Bibliography

• Greenback Planet: How the Dollar Conquered the World and Threatened Civilization as We Know It (2011)
• The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield (2011)
• American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 (2010)
• American Dreams: The United States Since 1945 (2010) ISBN 1594202621, ISBN 978-1594202629
• Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (2008), ISBN 9780385519588
• The Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War Over the American Dollar (2006), ISBN 0393061841
• Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times (2005)
• Lone Star Nation: The Epic Story of the Battle for Texas Independence (2004), ISBN 0385507372
• Woodrow Wilson (2003), ISBN 0805069550
• The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream (2002)
• The Strange Death of American Liberalism (2001)
• The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (2000), ISBN 0385493282
• Masters of Enterprise: Giants of American Business from John Jacob Astor and J. P. Morgan to Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey (1999)
• What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy (1998)
• TR: The Last Romantic (1997), ISBN 0465069584
• The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s (1995), ISBN 0312135947
• Since Vietnam: The United States in World Affairs, 1973-1995 (1995)
• The Wages of Globalism: Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power (1995)
• The United States in the World: A History of American Foreign Relations (1994)
• Into the Labyrinth: The United States and the Middle East, 1945-1993 (1994)
• The Devil We Knew: Americans and the Cold War (1993)
• Bound to Empire: The United States and the Philippines (1992), ISBN 0195071042
• Inside the Cold War: Loy Henderson and the Rise of the American Empire, 1918-1961 (1991)
• India and the United States: The Cold Peace (1990)
• The Specter of Neutralism: The United States and the Emergence of the Third World, 1947-1960 (1989)
• Cold Warriors: Eisenhower's Generation and American Foreign Policy (1988)

Co-authored books

• America Past and Present (2007 edition), with Robert A. Divine et al.
• The American Story (2007 edition), with Robert A. Divine et al.

Edited books

• The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt (2001)
• The Use of Force after the Cold War (2000)
• Critical Reflections on the Cold War: Linking Rhetoric and History (2000), with Martin J. Medhurst
• The Foreign Policies of Lyndon Johnson: Beyond Vietnam (1999)

External links

• H.W. Brands official website
• Website at The University of Texas at Austin
• Brands's Course on the American Presidency
• Interview on Traitor to His Class at the Pritzker Military Library
• Booknotes interview with Brands on The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s, February 25, 1996.
• In Depth interview with Brands, July 3, 2005