Iwan Morgan is Emeritus Professor of US Studies at the Institute of the Americas, University College London, UK. He is also a distinguished fellow of the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, UK. 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.

[A] superb study of the way FDR successfully created a presidency that could renew America.

• IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgementsPrologue: FDR and the American Presidency1 FDR’s Pre-Presidency: The Making of a Leader2 Chief Legislator: FDR and the Hundred Days3 New Dealer: FDR and Socio-Economic Reform4 Economic Manager: FDR’s Political Economy5 Second Emancipator: FDR and African Americans6 Chief Administrator: FDR’s Institutional Presidency7 Constitutional Revolutionary: FDR and the Supreme Court8 Party Leader: FDR and the Democrats9 Communicator-in-Chief: FDR’s Public Presidency10 Chief Diplomat: FDR as Foreign Policy Leader11 Commander-in-Chief: Structures and Strategies12 Commander-in-Chief: Arsenals and Alliances13 Practical Visionary: FDR’s National-Security PresidencyEpilogue: FDR’s Presidential Legacy – Truman to BidenNotesSelect bibliography

Iwan Morgan is Emeritus Professor of US Studies at the Institute of the Americas, University College London, UK. He is also a distinguished fellow of the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, UK. 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.

[A] superb study of the way FDR successfully created a presidency that could renew America.

• IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgementsPrologue: FDR and the American Presidency1 FDR’s Pre-Presidency: The Making of a Leader2 Chief Legislator: FDR and the Hundred Days3 New Dealer: FDR and Socio-Economic Reform4 Economic Manager: FDR’s Political Economy5 Second Emancipator: FDR and African Americans6 Chief Administrator: FDR’s Institutional Presidency7 Constitutional Revolutionary: FDR and the Supreme Court8 Party Leader: FDR and the Democrats9 Communicator-in-Chief: FDR’s Public Presidency10 Chief Diplomat: FDR as Foreign Policy Leader11 Commander-in-Chief: Structures and Strategies12 Commander-in-Chief: Arsenals and Alliances13 Practical Visionary: FDR’s National-Security PresidencyEpilogue: FDR’s Presidential Legacy – Truman to BidenNotesSelect bibliography

Iwan Morgan is Emeritus Professor of US Studies at the Institute of the Americas, University College London, UK. He is also a distinguished fellow of the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, UK. 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.

[A] superb study of the way FDR successfully created a presidency that could renew America.

• IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgementsPrologue: FDR and the American Presidency1 FDR’s Pre-Presidency: The Making of a Leader2 Chief Legislator: FDR and the Hundred Days3 New Dealer: FDR and Socio-Economic Reform4 Economic Manager: FDR’s Political Economy5 Second Emancipator: FDR and African Americans6 Chief Administrator: FDR’s Institutional Presidency7 Constitutional Revolutionary: FDR and the Supreme Court8 Party Leader: FDR and the Democrats9 Communicator-in-Chief: FDR’s Public Presidency10 Chief Diplomat: FDR as Foreign Policy Leader11 Commander-in-Chief: Structures and Strategies12 Commander-in-Chief: Arsenals and Alliances13 Practical Visionary: FDR’s National-Security PresidencyEpilogue: FDR’s Presidential Legacy – Truman to BidenNotesSelect bibliography