Books by Susan Dunn

Investigates the regicide's pivotal role in French intellectual history and political mythology. This book examines how thinkers on the right and left repudiated regicide and terror, while articulating a compassionate, humanitarian vision, which became the moral basis for the modern French nation. It focuses on the fluidity of political myths.

In his first term in office, Franklin Roosevelt helped pull the nation out of the Great Depression with his landmark programs. This title tells the story of Roosevelt's unprecedented battle to drive his foes out of his party by intervening in Democratic primaries and backing liberal challengers to conservative incumbents.

The rise and fall of the Old Dominion--the decline of Virginia and the splintering of the new republic