American Dreamer: A Life of Henry A. Wallace (Norton Paperback)
A careful, readable, sympathetic but commendably dispassionate biography.  --Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.,Los Angeles Times Book ReviewA fascinating, thoughtful, incisive, and well-researched life of the mysterious and complicated figure who might have become president...  --Michael Beschloss, author ofTaking Charge: The Johnson White House Tapes, 1963-1964At long last a lucid, balanced and judicious narrative of Henry Wallace...a first-rate biography.  --Douglas Brinkley, author ofThe Unfinished PresidencyEveryone interested in twentieth-century American history will want to read this book.  --Robert Dallek, author ofFlawed GiantIn this masterly work, Culver and Hyde have captured one of the more fascinating figures in American history.  --Doris Kearns Goodwin, author ofNo Ordinary TimeThis is a great book about a great man. I can't recall when—if ever—I've read a better biography.  --George McGovernWonderfully researched and very well written...an indispensable document on both the man and the time.  --John Kenneth Galbraith[A] lucid and sympathetic portrait of a fascinating character. Wallace's life reminds us of a time when ideas really mattered.  --Evan Thomas, author ofThe Very Best Men: The Early Years of the CIA[E]minently readable...a captivating chronicle of American politics from the Depression through the 1960s.  --Senator Edward M. Kennedy[T]he most balanced, complete, and readable account...  --Walter LaFeber, author ofInevitable Revolutions