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New Roosevelt book by Iwan Morgan - out on July 14 2022
12 July 2022
We are excited to announce the imminent publication of Iwan Morgan's latest book FDR: Transforming the Presidency and Renewing America (Bloomsbury Academic). Iwan Morgan, an expert biographer of US presidents takes a fresh look at Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly referred to as FDR, showing how his leadership enabled the United States of America to become the most successful country of the twentieth century. This astute and original assessment of a highly consequential presidency explains how Roosevelt enhanced the governing capacity of his office, promoted the New Deal – the greatest reform programme in US history – to meet the challenges of the Great Depression as well as constitutional revolution through his dealings with the Supreme Court, and forged a new intimacy between the president and the American people through his genius for political communication.
It also demonstrates the significance of his leadership as commander-in-chief in America’s greatest foreign war, his role in holding together the US-British-Soviet Grand Alliance against the Axis powers, and his pioneering development of the national-security presidency that sought to promote a lasting post-war peace for the world. Additionally, exploring how FDR attempted to win Soviet support for a Great Power peace after World War II at cost of accepting Soviet dominance in Eastern Europe, Morgan’s FDR also offers historical perspective on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
In fluid, immensely readable prose, Morgan focuses on the ways in which FDR over his four terms transformed the presidency and established it as the driving force of American politics and government.
FDR: Transforming the Presidency and Renewing America is published by Bloomsbury Academic on July 14, 2022.
Professor Iwan Morgan
Iwan Morgan is Professor of US Studies emeritus at the Institute of the Americas, University College London. He is also a distinguished fellow of the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford. He was the recipient of the British Association of American Studies Honorary Fellowship in 2014, and winner of the Richard Neustadt Book Prize in 2010. He is the author of Reagan: American Icon (2016), named by The Times/Sunday Times as a Politics Book of the Year. Read more here.
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FDR: Transforming the Presidency and Renewing America | Link to book publisher's webpage
Professor Iwan Morgan | academic profile
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[from top to bottom] Book cover; Professor Iwan Morgan