We have a Q title!

This will be the last new book announcement for a few weeks.  However, if you are interested in participating in the A-Z Summer Reading Challenge, we will be sending out information very soon and supplying you with hard to find titles starting with certain letters, such as this

Title Queen of Hearts.
Author Martha Brooks
Publisher Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Call No.  Curr Center PZ7.B7976 Que 2011
Synopsis
On the prairies of Canada during World War II, a girl and her two young siblings begin a war of their own. Stricken with tuberculosis, they are admitted to a nearby sanatorium. Teenager Marie Claire is headstrong, angry, and full of stubborn pride. In a new strange land of TB exiles she must “chase the cure,” seek privacy where there is none, and witness the slow wasting decline of others. But in this moving novel about fighting a way back to normal life, it is the thing that sets back Marie Claire the most—the demise of her little brother—that also connects her with the person who will be instrumental in helping her recover.

Even though this blog will be on a short hiatus, the new book display will continue showing books we receive as they are finished with processing.  Stop over, browse, and check them out.  Have a great summer.

New Library Books

Title The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive
Author Brian Christian
Publisher Doubleday
Call No. BD450.C5356
Synopsis

Title Mary I: England's Catholic Queen
Author John Edwards
Publisher Yale
Call No. DA347.E39 2011
Synopsis

Title Fed Up With Lunch: How One Anonymous Teacher Revealed the Truth about School Lunches...
Author Sarah Wu
Publisher Chronicle Books
Call No. LB3479.U6 W8 2011
Synopsis

Title Jane Austen's Letters  4th ed.
Author Collected and Edited by Dierdre Le Faye
Publisher Oxford
Call No. PR4036.A4 2011
Synopsis

Title The Story of Charlotte's Web: E.B. White's Eccentric Life In Nature and the Birth of an American Classic
Author Michael Sims
Publisher Walker
Call No.PS3545.H5187. Z925
Synopsis

Title A User's Guide to the Universe: Surviving the Perils of Black Holes, Time Paradoxes, and Quantum Uncertainty
Author Dave Goldberg & Jeff Blomquist
PublisherWiley
Call No.QC24.5.G65 2010
Synopsis

New Library Books about Teaching and Learning...Sort of

More often than not, topics are interdisciplinary.  Here is one such group:

Title Teaching about Religions: A Democratic Approach for Public Schools
Author Emile Lester
Publisher  University of Michigan
Call No. BL41.L47 2011
Synopsis

Title What I Didn't Learn in Business Schiool: How Strategy Works in the Real World
Author Jay B. Barney & Trish Gorman Clifford
Publisher Harvard Business Review Press
Call No. HD30.28.B36835 2010
Synopsis

Title Color in the Classroom: How American Schools Taught Race, 1900-1954
Author Zoe Burkholder
Publisher Oxford
Call No. HT1507.B87 2011
Synopsis

Title Teaching and its Predicaments
Author David K. Cohen
Publisher Harvard University Press
Call No. LB1025.34.C635 2011
Synopsis

Title  "Multiplication is for White People" Raising Expectations for Other People's Children
Author Lisa Delpit
Publisher The New Press
Call No. LC213.2.D45 2011
Synopsis

New Library books in Reading, Science, Mathematics, Medicine & Photography

Title When I was a Child I Read Books: Essays
Author Marilynne Robinson
Publisher  Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Call Number PS3568.O3125 W47 2012
Synopsis

Title Stem the Tide: Reforming Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education in America
Author David E. Drew
Publisher Johns Hopkins
Call Number Q183.3.A1 D734 2011
Synopsis

Title Figuring it out: Entertaining Encounters in Everyday Math
Author Nuno Crato
Publisher Springer
Call Number QA93.C7313 2010
Synopsis

Title Your Brain on Food: How Chemicals Control Your Thoughts and Feelings
Author Gary L. Wenk
Publisher Oxford
Call Number  RM315.W46 2010
Synopsis

Title Becoming Dr. Q : My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon
Author Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
Publisher University of California
Call Number RD592.9.!46 2011
Synopsis

Title Doctored: The Medicine of Photography in Nineteenth-Century America
Author Tanya Sheehan
Publisher Penn State Press
Call Number TR708.S535 2011
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New Library Books in American History

Title An American Betrayal: Cherokee Patriots ant the Trail of Tears
Author Daniel Blake Smith
Publisher Henry Holt
Call Number E99.C5 S632 2011
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Title The Killing of Crazy Horse
Author Thomas Powers
Publisher Alfred A. Knopf
Call Number E99.O3 C7255 2010
Synopsis
This book was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

Title Sword of the Spirit, shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy
Author Andrew Preston
Publisher Knopf
Call Number E183.7.P74 2010
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Title The Iron Way: Railroads, the Civil War and the Making of Modern America
AuthorWilliam G. Thomas
Publisher Yale
Call Number E491.T53 2011
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Title The 1970s: A New Global History from Civil Rights to Economic Inequality
Author Thomas Borstelmann
Publisher Princeton
Call Number E839.B59 2012
Synopsis

Title Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock
Author David Margolick
Publisher Yale
Call Number F419.L7 M37 2011
Synopsis

Title Medgar Evers: Mississippi Martyr
Author Michael Vinson Williams
Publisher University of Arkansas Press
Call Number F349.J13 W55 2011
Synopsis

New Library Books in Communication Arts, Journalism, and Film

Title Is that a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything
Author David Bellos
Publisher Farber & Farber
Call Number P306.B394 2011
Synopsis

Title Speaking American: A History of English in the United States
Author Richard W. Bailey
Publisher Oxford
Call Number PE2808.B35 2011
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Title The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture
Author Gary Saul Morson
Publisher Yale
Call Number PN171.Q6 M67 2011
Synopsis

Title John Huston: Courage and Art
Author Jeffrey Meyers
Publisher Crown/Archetype
Call NumberPN1998.3.H87 M49 2011
Synopsis

Title Raoul Walsh: The True Adventures of Hollywood's Legendary Director
Author Marilyn Ann Moss
Publisher Kentucky
Call Number PN1998.3.W35 M58 2011
Synopsis

Title Bad News: How America's Business Press Missed the Story of the Century
Author Anya Schiffrin, Ed.
Publisher The New Press
Call Number PN4784.C7 B33 2011
Synopsis

Title The Deal from Hell: How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great American Newspapers
Author James O'Shea
Publisher BBS
Call Number PN4874.O785 A3 2011
Synopsis

New Library Books in Business and Finance

Check our New Display shelves for more titles.  New Ones are added every day.

Title Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street
Author Thomas Sedlacek
Publisher Oxford
Call Number HB72.S36513 2011
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Title Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World
Author: Don Tapscott & Anthony D. Williams
Publisher Portfolio/Penguin
Call Number HC79.I55 T369 2010
Synopsis

Title Thrift and Thriving in America: Capitalism and Moral Order from the Puritans to the Present
Author Joshua J. Yates & James Davidson Hunter, Eds.
Publisher Oxford
Call Number HC110.S3 T46 2011
Synopsis

Title Mexico: Why a Few are Rich and the People Poor
Author Ramon Eduardo Ruiz
Publisher University of California
Call Number HC135.R777 2010
Synopsis

Title Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business
Author Bob Lutz
Publisher Portfolio/Penguin
Call Number  HD9710.U52 L88 2011
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New Library Books in Fiction

Title Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25
Author Richard Paul Evans
Publisher Mercury Ink
Call Number PS3555.V259 M53 2011
Synopsis

Title Pompeii: City on Fire
Author T. L. Higley
Publisher B& H Publishing Group
Call Number PS3608.I375 P66 2011
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Title Wonderstruck
Author Brian Selznick
PublisherScholastic Press
Call Number Curr Center PZ7.S4654
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Title The Silver Bowl
Author Diane Stanley
Publisher Harper
Call Number Curr Center PZ7.S7869 Sjl 2011
Synopsis

New Library Books in Science and Religion

Title The Scientific & the Divine: Conflict and Reconciliation from Ancient Greece to the Present
Author James A. Arieti & Patrick A. Wilson
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Call Number BL240.3.A74 2003
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Title Religion and Science in Context: A Guide to the Debates
Author Willem B. Drees
Publisher Routledge
Call Number BL240.3.D74 2010
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Title Is Nature Enough?: Meaning and Trutn in the Age of Science
Author John F. Haught
Publisher Cambridge
Call Number BL240.3.H38 2006
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Title Exploring Reality: The Intertwining of Science and Religion
Author John Polkinghorne
Publisher Yale University Press
Call Number BL240.3.P64 2005
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Title Faith in Science: Scientists Search for Truth
Author W. Mark Richardson & Gordy Slack, Eds.
Publisher Routledge
Call Number BL241.F35 2001
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Title When Science & Christianity Meet
Author David C. Lindberg & Ronald L. Numbers, Eds.
Publisher Chicago
Call Number BL245.W485 2003
Synopsis

New Library Books in History

Title  Paris, 1200
Author John W. Baldwin
Publisher Stanford University Press
Call Number DC727.B35 2010
Synopsis

Title Claudius Caesar: Image and Power in the Early Roman Empire
Author Josiah Osbood
Publisher Cambridge
Call Number DG284.O84 2011
Synopsis

Title A New History of Southeast Asia
Author M.C. Ricklefs, Bruce Lockhart, Albert Lau, Portia Reyes, & Maitrii Aung-Thwin
Publisher Palgrave/Macmillan
Call Number DS525.N47 2010
Synopsis

Title Contemporary Japan: History, Politics , and Social Change since the 1980's
Author  Jeff Kingston
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
Call Number DS891.K538 2011
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Title We Are the Revolutionists: German-Speaking Immigrants and American Abolitionists after 1848
Author Mischa Honeck
Publisher University of Georgia
Call Number E184.H64 2011
Synopsis

New Library Books in Education and Health

Title The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
Author Donalyn Miller
Publisher Jossey-Bass
Call Number LB1573.M4933 2009
Synopsis from publisher

Title Slam School: Learning Through Conflict in the Hip-Hop and Spoken Word Classroom
Author Bronwen, E. Low
Publisher Stanford University Press
Call NumberLB1631.L69 2011
Synopsis from publisher

Title The Skinny on Teaching: What You Don't Learn in Graduate School
Author J. M. Anderson
Publisher Information Age Publishing
Call Number LB2331.A53 2011
Table of Contents includes:
The Art of Teaching -- Yes, But Will They Remember?--Speak, That I May see Thee--A Little more Conversation -- Why Great Books still Matter -- Layers of Reading -- What's Wrong with Academic Writing -- How We can save Librarl Education
The main audience is First Year College Teachers

Title Finding Success the First Year: A Survivor's Guide for New Teachers
Author Matthew Johnson
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Call Number LB2844.1.N4 J64 2010
Synopsis from publisher

Title Instant Recess: Building a Fit nation 10 minutes at a time
Author Tony Yancey
Publisher University of California Press
Call Number RA427.8.Y35 2010
Synopsis from publisher

Title Chemical Food Safety
Author Leon Brimer
Publisher Modular Texts
Call Number RA1258.B75 2011
Synopsis from publisher

Title Learn to Live Through Cancer: What You Need to Know and Do
Author Stewart B. Fleishman
Publisher DemosHealth
Call Number RC263.F5267 2011
Synopsis from publisher

Title The Tender Cut: Inside the Hidden World of Self-Injury
Author Patricia A. Adler & Peter Adler
Publisher New York University Press
Call Number RC569.5.S48 A35 2011
Synopsis from publisher

New Library Books in Film

Title Cinema Italiano: The Complete guide from Classics to Cult
Author Howard Hughes
Publisher I.B. Taurus
Call Number PN1993.5.I88 2011
Synopsis from Publisher

Title Soul Searching : Black-Themed Cinema from the March on Washington to theRise of Blaxploitation
Author Christopher Sieving
Publisher Wesleyan
Call Number PN 1995.9.N4 S54 2011
Synopsis from Publisher

Title Flickers of Desire: Movie Stars of the 1910s
Author Jennifer M. Bean, Ed.
Publisher Rugters University Press
Call Number PN1998.2.F5585 2011
Contents include Theda Bara, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin and more.

Title The Ethical Vision of Clint Eastwood
Author Sara Anson Vaux
Publisher Eerdmans
Call Number PN1998.3.E325 V38 2012
Synopsis from Publisher

New Library Books in Christian Religion

Title  Shaking the Gates of Hell: Faith-Led Resistance to Corporate Globalization
Author Sharon Delgado
Publisher Fortress
Call Number BR115.G59 D45 2007
Synopsis from Publisher

Title Nature as Spiritual Practice
Author Stephen Chase
Publisher Eerdmans
Call Number BR115.N3 C44 2011
Synopsis from Publisher

Title Keep Your Head Up: America's New Black Christian Leaders, Social Consciousness & the Cosby Conversation
Author Anthony B. Bradley, Ed.
Publisher Crossway
Call Number BR563.N4 K443 2012
Synopsis from Publisher

Title God and the Atlantic: America, Europe, and the Religious Divide
Author Thomas Albert Howard
Publisher Oxford
Call Number BR735.H693 2011
Synopsis from Publisher

Title Black Fire: One Hundred Years of African American Pentecostalism
Author Estrelda Y. Alexander
Publisher InterVarsity Press
Call Number BR1644.3.A45 2011
Synopsis from Publisher

Title Christian Contours: How a Biblical Worldview Shapes the Mind and Heart
Author Douglas S. Huffman, Ed.
Publisher Kregel
Call Number BS680.C47 C57 2011
Synopsis from Publisher

New Library Books on World War II

Title Moral Combat: A History of World War II
Author Michael Burleign
Publisher Harper Press
Call NumberD743.B78 2011
Synopsis from Publisher

A clear, chronological narrative exploring many of the ethical dilemmas posed for real people during and after the Second World War. Literature on the Second World War is voluminous. In Moral Combat ", however, Michael Burleigh achieves what few historians can claim to have do≠ by exploring the moral sentiment of entire societies and their leaders, and how this changed under the impact of total war, he presents readers with an entirely fresh perspective of this conflict. Opening with the 'predators' - Mussolini, Hitler, Prince Hirohito of Japan - and moving onto appeasement (a popular policy or a 'wrong' policy?), the rape of Poland, Barbarossa, the role of Churchill, and the Holocaust, Burleigh analyses the moral dimension of the Second World War's most important moments. More than merely a history of 'great men', however, Burleigh also examines the moral reasoning of individuals who had to make choices under circumstances difficult to imagine. Stressing the maxim that the past is used to make sense of the present world we live in, he takes us right up to today's war on terror - a war of competing ideas. What, in the end, will constitute its victory? Burleigh's fascinating and deeply engaging exploration refuses to draw lessons from the past for the future, remaining instead firmly focused on the on-the-spot decisions that came to define the conflict. Original, perceptive and remarkable in scope, this is an unforgettable and hugely important Second World War history.

Title  The Battle of Britain: Five Months that Changed hHstory May-October 1950
Author James Holland
Publisher St. Martin's Press
Call Number D756.5.B7 H66 2011
Synopsis from Publisher
A groundbreaking new account of the Battle of Britain from acclaimed historian James Holland

The Battle of Britain paints a stirring picture of an extraordinary summer when the fate of the world hung by a thread. Historian James Holland has now written the definitive account of those months based on extensive new research from around the world including thousands of new interviews with people on both sides of the battle. If Britain’s defenses collapsed, Hitler would have dominated all of Europe. With France facing defeat and British forces pressed back to the Channel, there were few who believed Britain could survive; but, thanks to a sophisticated defensive system and the combined efforts of the Royal Air Force, the Royal Navy and the defiance of a new Prime Minister, Britain refused to give in. From clashes between coastal convoys and Schnellboote in the Channel to astonishing last stands in Flanders, slaughter by U-boats in an icy Atlantic and dramatic aerial battles over England, The Battle of Britain tells this epic story in a fresh and compelling voice


Title The Most Controversial Decision: Truman, The Atomic Bombs, and the Defeat of Japan
Author Wilson D. Miscamble
Publisher Cambridge
Call Number D767.25.H6 M47 2011
Synopsis from Publisher

"This book explores the American use of atomic bombs, and the role these weapons played in the defeat of the Japanese Empire in World War II. It focuses on President Harry S. Truman's decision making regarding this most controversial of all his decisions. The book relies on notable archival research, and the best and most recent scholarship on the subject to fashion an incisive overview that is fair and forceful in its judgments. This study addresses a subject that has been much debated among historians,and it confronts head-on the highly disputed claim that the Truman administration practiced atomic diplomacy. The book goes beyond its central historical analysis to ask whether it was morally right for the United States to use these terrible weapons against Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It also provides a balanced evaluation of the relationship between atomic weapons and the origins of the Cold War"--Provided by publisher.

 

Title The Battle of Midway
Author Craig L. Symonds
Publisher Oxford
Call Number D774.M5 @93 2011
Synopsis from Publisher

There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. By sunset, their vaunted carrier force (the Kido Butai) had been sunk and their grip on the Pacific had been loosened forever.

In this absolutely riveting account of a key moment in the history of World War II, one of America's leading naval historians, Craig L. Symonds paints an unforgettable portrait of ingenuity, courage, and sacrifice. Symonds begins with the arrival of Admiral Chester A. Nimitz at Pearl Harbor after the devastating Japanese attack, and describes the key events leading to the climactic battle, including both Coral Sea--the first battle in history against opposing carrier forces--and Jimmy Doolittle's daring raid of Tokyo. He focuses throughout on the people involved, offering telling portraits of Admirals Nimitz, Halsey, Spruance and numerous other Americans, as well as the leading Japanese figures, including the poker-loving Admiral Yamamoto. Indeed, Symonds sheds much light on the aspects of Japanese culture--such as their single-minded devotion to combat, which led to poorly armored planes and inadequate fire-safety measures on their ships--that contributed to their defeat. The author's account of the battle itself is masterful, weaving together the many disparate threads of attack--attacks which failed in the early going--that ultimately created a five-minute window in which three of the four Japanese carriers were mortally wounded, changing the course of the Pacific war in an eye-blink.

Symonds is the first historian to argue that the victory at Midway was not simply a matter of luck, pointing out that Nimitz had equal forces, superior intelligence, and the element of surprise. Nimitz had a strong hand, Symonds concludes, and he rightly expected to win.

New Library Books in American History

Title Interpreting American History: The Age of Andrew Jackson
Author Brian D. McKnight & James S. Humphreys, Eds.
Publisher Kent State
Call Number E381.I58 2011
Synopsis from Publisher

Historians possess the power to shape the view of history for those who come after them. Their efforts to illuminate significant events of the past often result in new interpretations, which frequently conflict with ideas proposed by earlier historians. Invariably, this divergence of thoughts creates a dissonance between historians about the causes and meanings of prior events. The Kent State University Press's new Interpreting American History Series aims to help readers learn how truth emerges from the clash of interpretations present in the study of history. In the series's first volume, Interpreting American History: The Age of Andrew Jackson, experts on Jacksonian America address the changing views of historians over the past century on a watershed era in U.S. history. A two-term president of the United States, Jackson was a powerful leader who widened constitutional boundaries on the presidency, shaping policy himself instead of deferring to the wishes of Congress. The essayists in this volume review the most important issues of the period-including the Corrupt Bargain, Nullification Crisis, Indian Removal Act, and Jacksonian democracy, economics, and reform-and discuss their interpretation over the last hundred years by such historians as Frederick Jackson Turner, Richard Hofstadter, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Sean Wilentz, Robert V. Remini, Daniel Feller, and David Walker Howe. An insightful compilation of essays, Interpreting American History: The Age of Andrew Jackson will acquaint readers with the nineteenthcentury world of Andrew Jackson and the ways in which historians have interpreted his life and times.

Title At the edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise that Saved the Union
Author Robert V. Remini
Publisher Basic Books
Call Number E423.R46 2010
Synopsis from Publisher

In 1850, America hovered on the brink of disunion. Tensions between slave-holders and abolitionists mounted, as the debate over slavery grew rancorous. An influx of new territory prompted Northern politicians to demand that new states remain free; in response, Southerners baldly threatened to secede from the Union. Only Henry Clay could keep the nation together. At the Edge of the Precipice is historian Robert V. Remini's fascinating recounting of the Compromise of 1850, a titanic act of political will that only a skillful statesman like Clay could broker. Although the Compromise would collapse ten years later, plunging the nation into civil war, Clay's victory in 1850 ultimately saved the Union by giving the North an extra decade to industrialize and prepare. A masterful narrative by an eminent historian, At the Edge of the Precipice also offers a timely reminder of the importance of bipartisanship in a bellicose age.

Title Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Author Candice Milard
Publisher Doubleday
Call Number E687.9.M55 2011
Synopsis from Publisher

Random House Digital, Inc., Sep 20, 2011 - Biography & Autobiography - 352 pages

James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, and a renowned and admired reformist congressman. Nominated for president against his will, he engaged in a fierce battle with the corrupt political establishment. But four months after his inauguration, a deranged office seeker tracked Garfield down and shot him in the back.

But the shot didn’t kill Garfield. The drama of what hap­pened subsequently is a powerful story of a nation in tur­moil. The unhinged assassin’s half-delivered strike shattered the fragile national mood of a country so recently fractured by civil war, and left the wounded president as the object of a bitter behind-the-scenes struggle for power—over his administration, over the nation’s future, and, hauntingly, over his medical care. A team of physicians administered shockingly archaic treatments, to disastrous effect. As his con­dition worsened, Garfield received help: Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, worked around the clock to invent a new device capable of finding the bullet.

Title The New Deal: A Modern History
Author Michael Hiltzik
Publisher Free Press
Call Number E806.H557 2011
Synopsis from Publisher
Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal began as a program of short-term emergency relief measures and evolved into a truly transformative concept of the federal government’s role in Americans’ lives. More than an economic recovery plan, it was a reordering of the political system that continues to define America to this day.
With The New Deal: A Modern History, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Michael Hiltzik offers fresh insights into this inflection point in the American experience. Here is an intimate look at the alchemy that allowed FDR to mold his multifaceted and contentious inner circle into a formidable political team. The New Deal: A Modern History shows how Roosevelt, through the force of his personality, commanded the loyalty of the rock-ribbed fiscal conservative Lewis Douglas and the radical agrarian Rexford Tugwell alike; of Harold Ickes and Harry Hopkins, one a curmudgeonly miser, the other a spendthrift idealist; of Henry Morgenthau, gentleman farmer of upstate New York; and of Frances Perkins, a prim social activist with her roots in Brahmin New England. Yet the same character traits that made him so supple and self-confident a leader would sow the seeds of the New Deal’s end, with a shocking surge of Rooseveltian misjudgments.