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Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici
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Woody Holton
IN THIS VIVID NEW BIOGRAPHY OF ABIGAIL ADAMS, the most illustrious woman of Americas founding era, prize-winning historian Woody Holton offers a sweeping reinterpretation of Adams’s life story and of women’s roles in the creation of the republic. Using previously overlooked documents from a host of archives, Abigail Adams shows that the wife of the second president of the United States was far
Alexandra: The Last Tsarina
Carolly Erickson
Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America
Wil Haygood · 410 pages
"The author of The Butler presents a revelatory biography of the first African-American Supreme Court justice--one of the giants of the civil rights movement, and one of the most transforming Supreme Court justices of the 20th century,"--Novelist.
Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth
Gitta Sereny · 757 pages
Gitta Sereny first saw Albert Speer on trial at Nuremberg. Over the last years of his life she came to know him - through hundreds of hours of conversations - as no other biographer has known a Nazi leader. She interviewed as well the people around him - the celebrated, the notorious and the ordinary. Speer gave Sereny, for her use, a number of unpublished manuscripts, and after his death she obta
The Kennedy Women: The Saga of an American Family
Laurence Leamer · 946 pages
Monumental in scope and extraordinary in sensitivity, The Kennedy Women chronicles five matrilineal generations in our nation's premier political dynasty. Not merely distinguished cultural history, it is a story of epic sweep, brimming with triumph and tragedy, courage and compliance, self-sacrifice and self-delusion. Moving from steerage on an immigrant vessel to the slums of Boston, from the Co
Bismarck: A Life
Jonathan Steinberg · 600 pages
This riveting, New York Times bestselling biography illuminates the life of Otto von Bismarck, the statesman who unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture. Jonathan Steinberg draws heavily on contemporary writings, allowing Bismarck's friends and foes to tell the story. What rises from these pages is a complex giant of a man: a hypochondriac with t
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
H.W. Brands · 784 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
George F. Kennan: An American Life
John Lewis Gaddis · 814 pages
A remarkably revealing view of how this greatest of Cold War strategists came to doubt his strategy and always doubted himself.
Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome
Anthony Everitt · 420 pages
In Hadrian and the Triumph of Romethe first major account of the emperor in nearly a centuryEveritt presents a compelling, richly researched biography of the man whom he calls arguably "the most successful of Rome's rulers." Born in A.D. 76, Hadrian lived through and ruled during a tempestuous era, a time when the Colosseum was opened to the public and Pompeii was buried under a mountain of lava a
Coolidge
Amity Shlaes · 565 pages
From the Publisher... Amity Shlaes chronicles a riveting portrait of a great American president, Calvin Coolidge, who served in office in the 1920s. He was known to many as "Silent Cal" and to some as "Scrooge." His personality portrayed a quiet, passive man, old fashioned, but the most modern of all presidents. His discipline represented strength, and he was admired for his courage. From the g
Nixon Volume #1: The Education of a Politician, 1913-62
Stephen E. Ambrose · 752 pages
This is volume one of a biography of one of the most elusive and intriguing American political figures, Richard M.Nixon, covering his life from birth through 1962.
Ethel Kennedy
Kerry Kennedy
The daughter of Ethel Kennedy depicts her mother’s working-class background, marriage to Robert F. Kennedy and work in human rights.
Grant: A Biography
William S. McFeely · 608 pages
The story of the Ohioan who became the leader of the Union Army and later the president.
Martin Van Buren
Ted Widmer, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. · 208 pages
Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
Joshua Wolf Shenk · 359 pages
Drawing on seven years of his own research and the work of other esteemed Lincoln scholars, Shenk reveals how the sixteenth president harnessed his depression to fuel his astonishing success. Lincoln found the solace and tactics he needed to deal with the nation’s worst crisis in the �coping strategies” he had developed over a lifetime of persevering through depressive episodes and personal tra
Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson
Tourmaline · 306 pages
American Scoundrel
Kai Bird with Susan Goldmark
A co-author of “American Prometheus” chronicles the life and work of the lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn. Read by Ari Fliakos. 15 hours, 42 minutes unabridged.
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
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Edmund Morris · 886 pages
Biography of Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, detailing his life from birth (1858) to his ascendancy to the Presidency (1901). This is the first book in Edmund Morris's trilogy on Roosevelt (followed by *Theodore Rex* and *Colonel Roosevelt*). It won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Bibliography or Autobiography and the 1980 National Book Award in Biography.
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Robert K. Massie · 791 pages
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fourteen and rose to become one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in history. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself