Jonathan Alter's bestselling and critically acclaimed account of how FDR lifted the country from despair and paralysis and transformed the presidency for all time.
Rose Quiello's pick on the January 16, 2009 Faith Middleton NPR Radio Show.

This enthralling book is the first to uncover the story of New York City merchants who engaged in forbidden trade with the enemy before and during the Seven Years' War (also known as the French and Indian War). Defying Empire reveals the important role the city played in hastening the colonies' march toward revolution.
Lee Jacobus's pick on the December 16, 2008 Faith Middleton NPR Radio Show.

A hilarious pop-socio-cultural history of the greatest invention that never was, the jetpack, and a participatory journey through the bizarre subculture of jetpack enthusiasts in search of a working model.

A bestselling author unearths the fascinating story of the banning of The Grapes of Wrath in the 1930sand captures the essence of a tumultuous era.

A skilled analysis of that most memorable year in our economic history.

Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize.

This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently. Now, historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed traces the Hemings family from its origins in Virginia in the 1700s to the family's dispersal after Jefferson's death in 1826.
Roxanne's pick on the December 16, 2008 Faith Middleton NPR Radio Show.