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Leuchtenburg was born in New York City, and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1943 from Cornell University, where he was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
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When the stability of American life was threatened by the Great Depression, the decisive and visionary policy contained in FDR's New Deal offered America a way forward. In this groundbreaking work, William E. Leuchtenburg traces the evolution of what was both the most controversial and effective socioeconomic initiative ever undertaken in the United States—and explains how the social fabric of American life was forever altered. It offers illuminating lessons on the challenges of economic transformation—for our time and for all time.
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Beginning with Woodrow Wilson and U.S. entry into World War I and closing with the Great Depression, The Perils of Prosperity traces the transformation of America from an agrarian, moralistic, isolationist nation into a liberal, industrialized power involved in foreign affairs in spite of itself. William E. Leuchtenburg's lively yet balanced account of this hotly debated era in American history has been a standard text for many years. This substantial revision gives greater weight to the roles of women and minorities in the great changes of the era and adds new insights into literature, the arts, and technology in daily life. He has also updated the lists of important dates and resources for further reading. “This book gives us a rare opportunity to enjoy the matured interpretation of an American Historian who has returned to the story and seen how recent decades have added meaning and vividness to this epoch of our history.”—Daniel J. Boorstin, from the Preface
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Perhaps not southerners in the usual sense, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, and Lyndon B. Johnson each demonstrated a political style and philosophy that helped them influence the South and unite the country in ways that few other presidents have. Combining vivid biography and political insight, William E. Leuchtenburg offers an engaging account of relations between these three presidents and the South while also tracing how the region came to embrace a national perspective without losing its distinctive sense of place. According to Leuchtenburg, each man "had one foot below the Mason-Dixon Line, one foot above." Roosevelt, a New Yorker, spent much of the last twenty-five years of his life in Warm Springs, Georgia, where he built a "Little White House." Truman, a Missourian, grew up in a pro-Confederate town but one that also looked West because of its history as the entrepôt for the Oregon Trail. Johnson, who hailed from the former Confederate state of Texas, was a westerner as much as a southerner. Their intimate associations with the South gave these three presidents an empathy toward and acceptance in the region. In urging southerners to jettison outworn folkways, Roosevelt could speak as a neighbor and adopted son, Truman as a borderstater who had been taught to revere the Lost Cause, and Johnson as a native who had been scorned by Yankees. Leuchtenburg explores in fascinating detail how their unique attachment to "place" helped them to adopt shifting identities, which proved useful in healing rifts between North and South, in altering behavior in regard to race, and in fostering southern economic growth. The White House Looks South is the monumental work of a master historian. At a time when race, class, and gender dominate historical writing, Leuchtenburg argues that place is no less significant. In a period when America is said to be homogenized, he shows that sectional distinctions persist. And in an era when political history is devalued, he demonstrates that government can profoundly affect people's lives and that presidents can be change-makers.
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Leuchtenburg was born in New York City, and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1943 from Cornell University, where he was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
Bachelor, Cornell University, 1943. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1944. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1951.
Master of Arts, Oxford University.
Cartographer United States Geological Survey, 1942-1943. Queens County director, state youth director Liberal Party, 1943-1944. Assistant editor American Labor Conference for International Affairs, 1945.
New England field representative National Council for Permanent FEPC, 1945-1946. National field representative Massachusetts state director Americans for Democratic Action, 1947-1949, New York State chairman, 1957-1958. Instructor New York University, 1947.
Instructor, then assistant professor Smith College, 1949-1951. Assistant professor Harvard, 1951-1952. Member faculty political science Columbia University, 1952-1983, associate chairman department history, 1958-1961, 67-70, 74-75, DeWitt Clinton professor, 1971-1983.
William Rand Kenan professor University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, since 1982. Visiting professor Salzburg Seminar American Studies, summer 1956, Duke University Law School, 1982, 85–, Peace College, 1982. Harmsworth professor Oxford (England) University, 1971-1972.
Elections analyst NBC, 1962, 64, 68, 72. Adviser Social Security Administration, from 1964. Consultant Oxford University Press, Ford Foundation, 1965-1966, House Judiciary Committee, 1975, American Broadcasting Company, 1982-1983.
Member National Study Commission Records and Documents of Federal Officials, 1975-1977. County committeeman Democratic Party, 1953-1955. Advisory committee on oral history John F. Kennedy Memorial Library, from 1965.
Advisory editorial board Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, 1971-1976. Member advisory board American Heritage, since 1983.
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Trustee Smith College, 1980-1983. Member advisory committee United States Senate History Office, from 1980. Served with Army of the United States, 1943.
Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member Organization American Historians (president 1985-1986), American, Southern history associations, Society of America Historians (president 1978-1981), Massachusetts History Society (correspondent), P.E.N., Phi Beta Kappa. Clubs: Century Association (New York City).
Married Jean McIntire, December 21, 1948 (divorced July 19, 1982). Married Jean Anne Williams, March 21, 1985. Children: Thomas, Christopher, Joshua.