H. W. Brands, author portrait
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H. W. Brands

H. W. BRANDS holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin. He has written more than a dozen biographies and histories, including The General vs. the President, a New York Times bestseller. Two of his biographies, The First American and Traitor to His Class, were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.
American Patriarch
America First
Founding Partisans
The Last Campaign
Our First Civil War
The Zealot and the Emancipator
Heirs of the Founders
The General vs. the President
Reagan
The Man Who Saved the Union
The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr
American Colossus
American Dreams
The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield
Traitor to His Class
Andrew Jackson
Lone Star Nation
The Age of Gold
The First American

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Books

American Patriarch
America First
Founding Partisans
The Last Campaign
Our First Civil War
The Zealot and the Emancipator
Heirs of the Founders
The General vs. the President
Reagan
The Man Who Saved the Union
The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr
American Colossus
American Dreams
The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield
Traitor to His Class
Andrew Jackson
Lone Star Nation
The Age of Gold
The First American

Events

Thu Sep 24
BOOK PEOPLE 6TH AND LAMAR
603 N LAMAR BLVD
AUSTIN, TX 78703-5413
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Sat Nov 14
BOOK PEOPLE 6TH AND LAMAR
603 N LAMAR BLVD
AUSTIN, TX 78703-5413
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Books for LGBTQIA+ Pride Month

In June we celebrate Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual + (LGBTQIA+) Pride Month, which honors the 1969 Stonewall riots in Manhattan. Pride Month is a time to both celebrate the accomplishments of those in the LGBTQ+ community and recognize the ongoing struggles faced by many across the world who wish to live

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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from H. W. Brands’ Founding Partisans

From historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands, a revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States.   Part I The Making of a Continentalist 1 Alexander Hamilton hadn’t intended to father a party and then subvert it; his first goal in politics had been to

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