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Books Like Truman

by David McCullough · about this book

Loved Truman by David McCullough? If its nonfiction, biography and political biography hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with A Promised Land, My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams and King Hancock. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside Truman: Nonfiction · Biography · Political Biography · Presidential History · Male Lead

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   A Promised Land

   Barack Obama

   Political Biography · Presidential History · Nonfiction · Politics · Leadership

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   My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams

   Abigail Adams, John Adams

   Presidential History · History · Political Biography · Politics · Nonfiction

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   King Hancock

   Brooke Barbier

   Political Biography · Biography · History · Nonfiction · Politics

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   The Spy and the Traitor

   Ben Macintyre

   Cold War History · Biography · History · Cold War Era · Nonfiction

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   One Nation Under Blackmail, Vol. 1: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein

   Whitney Alyse Webb

   Cold War History · History · Politics · Nonfiction · Presidential History

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   Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success

   Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig

   Political Biography · Biography · Politics · Presidential History · Nonfiction

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   A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

   S. Nassir Ghaemi

   Political Biography · History · Nonfiction · Biography · Presidential History

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   107 Days

   Kamala Harris

   Political Biography · Presidential History · Nonfiction · Politics · Leadership

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   Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

   Mary L Trump

   Political Biography · Politics · Biography · Nonfiction · Presidential History

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10. 

    Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

    Adam Higginbotham

    Cold War History · Cold War Era · History · Nonfiction · Dense Prose

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11. 

    Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times

    Donald T. Phillips

    Presidential History · Nonfiction · Political Biography · History · Leadership

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    Becoming

    Michelle Obama

    Political Biography · Presidential History · Nonfiction · Politics · Character-Driven

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    Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

    Jonathan Blitzer

    Cold War History · Politics · Nonfiction · History · Diplomatic History

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    Intent to Destroy: Russia’s Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine

    Eugene Finkel

    History · Politics · Nonfiction · Cold War History · Diplomatic History

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    Marsha

    Tourmaline

    Biography · History · Nonfiction · Political Biography · Memoir & Biography

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    1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--And How It Shattered a Nation

    Andrew Ross Sorkin

    History · Nonfiction · Politics · Presidential History · Biography

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    The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump

    Andrew G. McCabe

    Presidential History · Nonfiction · Politics · Leadership · Male Lead

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    Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump

    Peter Strzok

    Nonfiction · Presidential History · Politics · Male Lead · Election History

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19. 

    True

    Kostya Kennedy

    Biography · Nonfiction · History · Male Lead · Memoir & Biography

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    Spitfires

    Becky Aikman

    Biography · History · Nonfiction · World War II History · Memoir & Biography

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