Allan Nevins - Major Books

Major Books

• The Evening post; a century of journalism (1922)
• The American states during and after the revolution, 1775-1789 (1927) online edition
• A History of American Life vol. VIII: The Emergence of Modern America 1865-1878 (1927)
• Frémont, the West's greatest adventurer; being a biography from certain hitherto unpublished sources of General John C. Frémont, together with his wife, Jessie Benton Frémont, and some account of the period of expansion which found a brilliant leader in the Pathfinder (1928) online edition
• Polk; the diary of a president, 1845–1849, covering the Mexican war, the acquisition of Oregon, and the conquest of California and the Southwest, (1929)
• Henry White; thirty years of American diplomacy (1930)
• Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage (1933)
• Letters of Grover Cleveland, 1850–1908; (1933)
• Dictionary of American Biography (1934–36); Nevins wrote 40 articles on Alexander Hamilton, Rutherford B. Hayes, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, etc.
• Abram S. Hewitt: with same account of Peter Cooper. (1935)
• Hamilton Fish; the inner history of the Grant administration, (1936) online edition vol 1 online edition vol 2
• The Gateway to History 1938. online edition
• The emergence of modern America, 1865-1878 (1941)
• Ordeal of the Union (1947–1971).
  • 1. Fruits of Manifest Destiny, 1847–1852;
  • 2. A House Dividing, 1852–1857;
  • 3. Douglas, Buchanan, and Party Chaos, 1857–1859;
  • 4. Prologue to Civil War, 1859–1861;
  • 5. The Improvised War, 1861–1862;
  • 6. War Becomes Revolution, 1862–1863;
  • 7. The Organized War, 1863–1864;
  • 8. The Organized War to Victory, 1864–1865
• Ford with the collaboration of Frank Ernest Hill, 3 vols. (1954–1963)
• John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of American Enterprise. 2 vols. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. (1940)
• Study In Power: John D. Rockefeller, Industrialist and Philanthropist. 2 vols. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. (1953)