William Leuchtenburg

William Edward Leuchtenburg (born September 28, 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 was born in Ridgewood, New York. He is the author of more than a dozen books on 20th century history [2], 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 [3].

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