H. W. Brands

“Master storyteller” (Christian Science Monitor) H. W. Brands was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his bestselling biographies of Benjamin Franklin (The First American) and Franklin Roosevelt (Traitor to His Class). Exploring such diverse subjects as Aaron Burr, Ronald Reagan, the California gold rush, Andrew Jackson, the Vietnam War, and Bill Gates, his more than two dozen books “weave together keen political history with anecdote and marvelous sense of place” (The Boston Globe). Brands returns with the story of the early 19th--century political giants who took up the daunting challenge of completing the constitutional work begun by the Founding Fathers. (queenfrostine23)… (more)

Tuesday, May 26 at 7PM

Historian & Author H.W. Brands speaking & signing Reagan: The Life

Ronald Reagan today is a conservative icon, celebrated for transforming the American domestic agenda and playing a crucial part in ending communism in the Soviet Union. In his masterful new biography, H. W. Brands argues that Reagan, along with FDR, was the most consequential president of the twentieth century. Reagan took office at a time when the public sector, after a half century of New Deal liberalism, was widely perceived as bloated and inefficient, an impediment to personal liberty. Reagan sought to restore democracy by bolstering capitalism. In Brands's telling, how Reagan, who voted four times for FDR, engineered a conservative transformation of American politics is both a riveting personal journey and the story of America in the modern era.

ABOUT H.W. Brands

Henry William Brands was born in Oregon, went to college in California, sold cutlery across the American West and earned graduate degrees in mathematics and history in Oregon and Texas. He taught at Vanderbilt University and Texas A&M University before joining the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History. He teaches history and writing to graduate students and undergraduates. He writes on American history and politics, with books including The Man Who Saved the Union, Traitor to His Class, Andrew Jackson, The Age of Gold, The First American and TR. Several of his books have been bestsellers; two, Traitor to His Class and The First American, were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. He lectures frequently on historical and current events and can be seen and heard on national and international television and radio Can't make it to the event? You can order a signed, personalized copy of this book. We ship worldwide. Simply write "SIGNED COPY" and the name for the personalizations in the Comments field during checkout. Thank you for supporting H.W. Brands and your local independent bookstore!

Location: Street: 603 N Lamar Blvd City: Austin, Province: Texas Postal Code: 78703-5413 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands will be at Warwick's on Thursday, November 21st at 7:30pm to discuss and sign The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace. Reserved Seating is available, although not online. Please contact the Warwick's Book Dept. at (858) 454-0347 for details.

From New York Times bestselling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the White House, holding the country together at two critical turning points in our history.

Ulysses Grant rose from obscurity to discover he had a genius for battle, and he propelled the Union to victory in the Civil War. After Abraham Lincoln's assassination and the disastrous brief presidency of Andrew Johnson, America turned to Grant again to unite the country, this time as president. In Brands's sweeping, majestic full biography, Grant emerges as a heroic figure who was fearlessly on the side of right. He was a beloved commander in the field but willing to make the troop sacrifices necessary to win the war, even in the face of storms of criticism. He worked valiantly to protect the rights of freedmen in the South; Brands calls him the last presidential defender of black civil rights for nearly a century. He played it straight with the American Indians, allowing them to shape their own fate even as the realities of Manifest Destiny meant the end of their way of life. He was an enormously popular president whose memoirs were a huge bestseller; yet within decades of his death his reputation was in tatters, the victim of Southerners who resented his policies on Reconstruction. In this page-turning biography, Brands now reconsiders Grant's legacy and provides a compelling and intimate portrait of a man who saved the Union on the battlefield and consolidated that victory as a resolute and principled political leader.

Location: Street: 7812 Girard Ave City: La Jolla, Province: California Postal Code: 92037 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

H.W. Brands (Andrew Jackson, American Colossus, Lone Star Nation, The age of gold, The First American, Traitor to His Class, The Man Who Saved the Union, The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield)

H. W. Brands is the Dickson Allen Anderson Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. A New York Times bestselling author, he was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography for The First American and again for Traitor to His Class. (added from Random House)… (more)

The Decorah Public Library history book group will discuss H.W. Brands’ Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times at 6:30 p.m. Thursday June 27 at Decorah Public Library. Copies of the book are available for check-out at the front desk of the library.

Brands’ book recounts the extraordinary story of Andrew Jackson- the colorful, dynamic, and forceful president who ushered in the Age of Democracy and set a still young America on its path to greatness- told by the bestselling author of “The First American.” (psybre)… (more)

Tuesday, June 4th at 7PM

Best Selling Austin Author H.W. Brands Speaking and Signing The man who saved the union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace From New York Times bestselling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the White House, holding the country together at two critical turning points in our history.

Ulysses Grant rose from obscurity to discover he had a genius for battle, and he propelled the Union to victory in the Civil War. After Abraham Lincoln's assassination and the disastrous brief presidency of Andrew Johnson, America turned to Grant again to unite the country, this time as president. In Brands's sweeping, majestic full biography, Grant emerges as a heroic figure who was fearlessly on the side of right. He was a beloved commander in the field but willing to make the troop sacrifices necessary to win the war, even in the face of storms of criticism. He worked valiantly to protect the rights of freedmen in the South; Brands calls him the last presidential defender of black civil rights for nearly a century. He played it straight with the American Indians, allowing them to shape their own fate even as the realities of Manifest Destiny meant the end of their way of life. He was an enormously popular president whose memoirs were a huge bestseller; yet within decades of his death his reputation was in tatters, the victim of Southerners who resented his policies on Reconstruction. In this page-turning biography, Brands now reconsiders Grant's legacy and provides a compelling and intimate portrait of a man who saved the Union on the battlefield and consolidated that victory as a resolute and principled political leader. H.W. Brands was born in Oregon, went to college in California, sold cutlery across the American West and earned graduate degrees in mathematics and history in Oregon and Texas. He teaches at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History. He writes on American history and politics, with books including The man who saved the union, Traitor to His Class, Andrew Jackson, The Age of Gold, The First American and TR. Several of his books have been bestsellers; two, Traitor to His Class and The First American, were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. In order to have anything signed at a BookPeople event, a copy of the event book must be purchased from BookPeople. If you purchase your book from BookPeople in advance of the event, please save your receipt and present it at the event.

Thank you for supporting H.W. Brands and your local independent bookstore!

Location: Street: 603 N Lamar Blvd City: Austin, Province: Texas Postal Code: 78703-5413 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

H.W. Brands discusses The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace.

From one of America’s finest historians comes a masterful new biography of the Civil War general and two-term president, ”The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace.” H.W. Brands’ book traces Grant’s remarkable rise from obscurity to command of the Union Army and his two terms in the White House. He re-examines Grant’s legacy and provides a convincing and intimate portrait of a man who saved the Union on the battlefield and then consolidated that victory as a resolute and principled political leader. Brands is ideally suited to tell this story; his books include award-winning biographies of Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Andrew Jackson and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Formerly on the faculty at Texas A&M University, he now is the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History at the University of Texas. If you are a history lover, please be sure to mark this date on your calendar. (jasbro)… (more)

H.W. Brands , Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Join us as The Pritzker Military Library hosts acclaimed historian and biographer H.W. BRANDS for a talk on THURSDAY, JAN. 22, at 6 p.m., about his new book Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, shedding new light on FDR's formative years and his willingness to champion the concerns of the poor and disenfranchised. No charge.
Reservations requested: 312-587-0234. To order an autographed book, call THE BOOK STALL AT CHESTNUT COURT at 446-8880. (booksense)… (more)