![]() In Dreams of El Dorado, he organized his sections and chapters chronologically and topically to thread together events from President Thomas Jefferson’s dreams of Western expansion to President Theodore Roosevelt’s progressive policies of Western conservation. foreign policy, economics, presidents and leadership, regularly returns to his native region in his biographies and syntheses. ![]() Brands, who is also widely published on U.S. ![]() Brands’ 30th history book, Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West (Basic Books, $32), is a fast-paced, highly readable narrative of the West from the time of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 to the beginning of the modern West in 1913. history since his first book, Cold Warriors: Eisenhower’s Generation and American Foreign Policy, was published in 1988. has been a prolific and consistent chronicler of U.S. (Basic Books, $32).Īmerican historian and biographer Henry William “H.W.” Brands Jr. Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West by Henry William “H.W.” Brands Jr. ![]()
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