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Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip
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Include books by the same authorThe Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary
Candace Fleming · 177 pages
Though Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln's backgrounds differed considerably, both were intellectuals who shared interests in literature and politics, as well as a great love for each other.
Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson
Gore Vidal · 205 pages
"Gore Vidal, one of the master stylists of American literature and one of the most acute observers of American life and history, turns his immense literary and historiographic talent to a portrait of the formidable trio of George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson." "In Inventing a Nation, Vidal transports the reader into the minds, the living rooms (and bedrooms), the convention halls,
Franklin and Lucy
Joseph E. Persico · 443 pages
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was arguably the greatest figure of the twentieth century. While FDR's official circle was predominantly male, it was his relationships with women--particularly with Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd--that most vividly bring to light the human being beneath this towering statesman. It is no coincidence that Rutherfurd was with Roosevelt the day he died in Warm Springs, Georgia, alon
Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir
Clint Hill, Lisa McCubbin · 343 pages
"For four years, from the election of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in November 1960 until after the election of Lyndon Johnson in 1964, Clint Hill was the Secret Service agent assigned to guard the glamorous and intensely private Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. During those four years, he went from being a reluctant guardian to a fiercely loyal watchdog and, in many ways, her closest friend"--
The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage
Daniel Mark Epstein · 559 pages
The first full-length portrait of the marriage of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln in more than fifty years, The Lincolns is a fascinating new work of American history by Daniel Mark Epstein, an award-winning biographer and poet known for his passionate understanding of the Civil War period. Although the private lives of political couples have in our era become front-page news, the true story of this
The Real George Washington
Jay A. Parry, Andrew M. Allison, W. Cleon Skousen
His Excellency: George Washington
Joseph J. Ellis · 352 pages
The author of seven highly acclaimed books, Joseph J. Ellis has crafted a landmark biography that brings to life in all his complexity the most important and perhaps least understood figure in American history, George Washington. With his careful attention to detail and his lyrical prose, Ellis has set a new standard for biography.Drawing from the newly catalogued Washington papers at the Universi
Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House
Sally Bedell Smith · 608 pages
Drawing on interviews with Kennedy intimates, as well as newly available personal documents, a study of America's most storied presidency reveals the personalities and relationships that molded the politics, culture, and style of an era.
Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution
James M. McPherson · 173 pages
James McPherson offers a series of thoughtful and engaging essays on aspects of Lincoln and the war that have rarely been discussed in depth. McPherson displays his keen insight and sterling prose as he examines several critical themes in American history. He looks closely at the President's role as Commander-in-Chief of the Union forces, showing how Lincoln forged a national military strategy for
Jefferson and the Rights of Man
Dumas Malone · 523 pages
Washington: A Life
Ron Chernow · 928 pages
In this work, the author, a biographer provides a portrait of the father of our nation, dashing forever the stereotype of a stolid, unemotional man, and revealing an astute and surprising portrait of a canny political genius who knew how to inspire people.
The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It
Richard Hofstadter · 560 pages
American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
Ronald C. White Jr. · 845 pages
In his time, Ulysses S. Grant was routinely grouped with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in the "Trinity of Great American Leaders." But the battlefield commander–turned–commander-in-chief fell out of favor in the twentieth century. In American Ulysses, Ronald C. White argues that we need to once more revise our estimates of him in the twenty-first. Based on seven years of research with prim
Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President
Harold Holzer · 374 pages
Listening In: The Secret White House Recordings of John F. Kennedy
Ted Widmer · 320 pages
A uniquely unscripted, insider account of Kennedy and his cabinet grappling with the day-to-day business of the White House and guiding the nation through a hazardous era of uncertainty. Features extensively annotated transcripts of the recordings and a foreword by Caroline Kennedy.
George Washington's Sacred Fire
Peter A. Lillback, Jerry Newcombe · 1,208 pages
Dead Presidents: An American Adventure into the Strange Deaths and Surprising Afterlives of Our Nation's Leaders
Brady Carlson · 336 pages
In *Dead Presidents*, NPR host Brady Carlson takes listeners to presidential gravesites, monuments, and memorials to tell the death stories of our greatest leaders. Mixing biography and travelogue, Carlson explores whether William Henry Harrison really died of a cold, why Zachary Taylor's remains were exhumed 140 years after his death, and how what killed James A. Garfield wasn't an assassin's bul
The Age of Jackson
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. · 576 pages
Bloody Times: The Funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the Manhunt for Jefferson Davis
James L. Swanson · 202 pages
"On the morning of April 2, 1865, Jefferson Davis received a telegram from General Robert E. Lee. There is no more time--the Yankees are coming, it warned. That night Davis fled Richmond, setting off an intense manhunt for the Confederate president. Two weeks later, President Lincoln was assassinated, and the nation was convinced that Davis was involved in the conspiracy that led to the crime. Jam
American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush
Kevin Phillips · 416 pages
An acerbic, withering account of the ascent of the Bush family to the pinnacle of the American political and social elite and the implications of the dynasty's hold on power for democracy in America. With an unerring instinct for fakery and humbug,Phillips traces the convoluted trail of Bush mendacity through three generations. The picture he paints of a family willing to do ANYTHING to hold power
Kennedy and Nixon: The Rivalry That Shaped Postwar America
Chris Matthews · 400 pages
Speeches and Writings, 1859-1865
Abraham Lincoln · 788 pages
Lincoln's Boys: John Hay, John Nicolay, and the War for Lincoln's Image
Joshua Zeitz · 390 pages
A timely and intimate look into Abraham Lincoln's White House through the lives of his two closest aides and confidants.