He received some of the top awards given to historians, including the Parkman and Bancroft prizes, was a political analyst for CBS and NBC and consulted on several of Ken Burns' PBS documentaries ...

Advertisement Article continues below this ad Leuchtenburg's notable books include "Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal" and "The Perils of Prosperity," a history of the U.S. from World War I ...

NEW YORK — (AP) — William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S. presidency and as the reigning scholar on Franklin Roosevelt and ...