The Men Who Built America
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Henry William Brands Jr. (born August 7, 1953) is an American historian. He holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his PhD in history in 1985. He has authored more than thirty books on U.S. history.
Henry W. Brands is a professor of history and the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair at the University of Texas at Austin. He has written thirty books on various topics in American history, including biographies, political history, and cultural history.
- The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin Brands.
- Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times Brands.
- Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Brands.
- The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace Brands.
Brands tells the story of the settling of the American West. He takes us from John Jacob Astor’s fur trading outpost located in Oregon and on to the Texas Revolution. From the Oklahoma land rush to the California gold rush.
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- The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin.
- Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times.
- Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
- The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace.
Oct 6, 2020 · H.W. Brands’s “The Zealot and the Emancipator” looks at how two opponents of slavery chose very different paths to abolition.
Nov 8, 2021 · Historian H. W. Brands explores America's contentious founding in 'Our First Civil War'. In the prologue to his latest book, prolific historian H. W. Brands writes: “In every colony,...
