In an era of promises to create smaller, more limited government, Americans often forget that the federal government has amassed an extraordinary record of succ

After George Washington was inaugurated in 1789 in New York, he visited Columbia University - the college where, close to 130 years later, the Pulitzer Prizes w

“Important . . . [a] landmark presidential biography . . . Bird is able to build a persuasive case that the Carter presidency deserves this new look.”—The

This concise and elegant contribution to the Very Short Introduction series reintroduces the history that shaped the founding fathers, the history that they mad