Books by David Reynolds

'David Reynolds is the perfect man for the road'. The ObserverBill Bryson's The Lost Continent meets Steinbeck's Travels with Charley. A candid, humorous and perceptive eye on the US as it heads into election year. From Ocean City, Maryland to San Francisco, Reynolds traverses the US and observes Trump's America, and the Americans' way of

What does Brexit mean to you? For award-winning historian David Reynolds, it's neither a saga of British liberation nor a Westminster soap: it's a crisis of national identity a long time in the making.

Comprehensive study for furthering the debate on how to improve and raise achievement within schools.

An essential resource for those interested in the effectiveness of educational systems, organisations and classrooms. It offers academics, researchers, students, policy-makers new insights into the latest thinking and evidence about educational effectiveness.

A controversial and sweeping re-examination of the First World War and its enduring consequences.

"Immensely illuminating and enjoyable account of a road trip along Highway 83 ... Books like [Reynold''s] prove that good travel writing remains not only very much alive, but essential."—The BooksellerIn Slow Road to Brownsville, David Reynolds embarks on a road trip along Highway 83, a little-known two-lane highway built in 1926 that runs from Swan River, Manitoba, to the Mexican border at Brownsville, Texas, on the Gulf of Mexico. Growing up in a small town in England, Reynolds was enthralled by both the myth of the Wild West and the myth of the open road. This road trip is his exploration of the reality behind these myths as he makes his way from small town to small town, gas station to gas station, and motel to motel, hanging out in bars, drinking with the locals, and observing their sometimes-peculiar customs. Reynolds also wanted to see the country where the Sioux, the Cheyenne, the Comanches, the Apaches, and other native groups lived and died and to look at how their descendants live now. He describes the forced location of the Cheyenne people, discovers the true story of the Alamo, and finds similarities between Sitting Bull’s tours and those of the Black

Grouped into four sections, this book covers various aspects of school effectiveness by looking at: laying the foundations of the effective school; pushing the boundaries; trying to influence policy and practice; and contemporary solutions. It gives an overview of how school effectiveness is both perceived and changing.

Arguing that the period from 1938 to 1941 was a turning point in modern American history, Mr. Reynolds shows how Franklin Roosevelt led Americans into a new global perspective on foreign policy.

What constitutes quality schooling? What are the implications for educational practice and administration? This text looks at these questions and examines international research evidence and reform initiatives.

This title provides an overview of 20th century British foreign policy. It brings together the often separated histories of diplomacy, defence, economics and empire in a provocative reinterpretation of British 'decline'. It also offers a broader reflection on the nature of international power and the mechanisms of policymaking.

School effectiveness is a subject of growing interest to teachers. This book reviews up-to-date research in school effectiveness and improvement and examines key questions including assessing school effectiveness and examination attainment. Contributors are all researchers in the field.