Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom, 1940-1945

6 best books like Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom, 1940-1945 (James MacGregor Burns): The Songs of Distant Earth, Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975, The Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism, Final Approach, The Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler, The Sixth Man

The Songs of Distant Earth

Author	Arthur C. Clarke
ISBN	0007115865

Just a few islands in a planetwide ocean, Thalassa was a veritable paradise—home to one of the small colonies founded centuries before by robot Mother Ships when the Sun had gone nova and mankind had fled Earth.

Mesmerized by the beauty of Thalassa and overwhelmed by its vast resources, the...

Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975

Author	Max Hastings
ISBN	0062405667

An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War.

Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one...

The Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism

Author	Stanley Cloud
ISBN	0395877539

Publishers Weekly described The Murrow Boys as "a lively, colloquial history of broadcast journalism that is so exciting one's impulse is to read it in a single sitting." It tells the swashbuckling tale of Edward R. Murrow and his legendary band of CBS radio journalists - Charles Collingwood, Howard...

Final Approach

Author	John J. Nance
ISBN	0449220354

SABOTAGE....ACCIDENT....OR MURDER BY OMISSION?

The airline told passengers flying to Kansas City the skies were safe. They lied. On a rain-slashed night, Flight 255 crashes at Kansas City Airport -- triggering one of the most horrifying aviation disasters of the decade. Put simply, it...

The Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler

Author	David L. Roll
ISBN	0199891958

The Hopkins Touch offers the first portrait in over two decades of the most powerful man in Roosevelt's administration.

In this impressive biography, David Roll shows how Harry Hopkins, an Iowa-born social worker who had been an integral part of the New Deal's implementation, became the...

The Sixth Man

Author	David Baldacci
ISBN	0446573108

Watch King & Maxwell, TNT's new series based on David Baldacci's blockbuster novels, on Mondays at 10 p.m. (ET/PT) After the #1 New York Times bestsellers Split Second, Hour Game, Simple Genius, and First Family, Sean King and Michelle Maxwell return in their most shocking case: a high stakes struggle...