Bibliography - Series 2
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Reynolds, David, America, Empire of Liberty: A New History (London: Allen Lane, 2009) - the book linked to this Radio 4 series, published in January, provides a fuller guide to reading.
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Badger, Anthony, FDR: The First Hundred Days (New York: Hill and Wang, 2008)
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Brinkley, Douglas, Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress, 1903-2003 (New York: Viking, 2003)
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Chandler, Alfred D., Jr,
The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1977)
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Daniels, Roger,
Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998)
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Ellliott, J.H.,
Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830 (New York: Perennial, 2002)
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Dumenil, Lynn,
The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s (New York: Hill and Wang, 1995)
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Foner, Eric
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (New York: Harper and Row, 1988)
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Frost, Elizabeth and Kathryn Cullen-DuPont,
Women's Suffrage in America: An Eyewitness History (Oxford: Facts on File, 1992)
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Goodwin, Doris Kearns,
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994)
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Jeffries, John W.,
Wartime America: The World War II Home Front (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1996)
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Kennedy, David M.
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999)
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Landau, Sarah Bradford and Carl W. Condit,
Rise of the New York Skyscraper, 1865-1913 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996)
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Larson, Edward J.,
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion (New York: Basic Books, 1997)
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Marsden, George M.,
Fundamentalism and American Culture (2nd edn, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)
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May, Lary,
Screening out the Past: The Birth of Mass Culture and the Motion Picture Industry (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983)
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McGerr, Michael,
A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920 (New York: Free Press, 2003)
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McPherson, James M.,
Battle Cry of Freedom: The American Civil War(London: Penguin, 1990)
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McPherson, James M.,
'To the Best of My Ability': The American Presidents (London: DK Publishing, 2004)
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Milner, Clyde A, II, Carol A. O'Connor and Martha A. Sandweiss, eds,
The Oxford History of the American West (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994)
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Morris, Edmund,
Theodore Rex(London: HarperCollins, 2002)
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Noll, Mark A.,
The Old Religion in a New World: The History of North American Christianity (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2002)
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Rauchway, Eric,
The Great Depression & the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)
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Renshaw, Patrick,
Franklin D. Roosevelt(London: Longman, 2004)
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Reynolds, David,
From Munich to Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt's America and the Origins of the Second World War (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2001)
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Thompson, John A.,
Woodrow Wilson
(London: Longman, 2002)
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Ward, Geoffrey C.,
From Munich to Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt's America and the Origins of the Second World War (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2001)
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White, Edward,
Creating the National Pastime: Baseball Transforms Itself, 1903-1953(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996)
Presenter
 - David Reynolds is the Professor of International History at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Christ's College.
- David is a regular visitor to the United States and has held visiting university appointments at Harvard, Nebraska and Oklahoma.
The series
- 'America: Empire of Liberty' won the Voice of the Listener & Viewer Award for the Best New Radio Programme of 2008 and was nominated for a SONY Radio Academy Award.
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