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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThomas Jefferson: A Life
Willard Sterne Randall
The Life of Abraham Lincoln
Henry Ketcham · 232 pages
George Washington: The Founding Father
Paul Johnson
Eleanor Roosevelt: Vol 2, The Defining Years, 1933-38
Blanche Wiesen Cook · 704 pages
The captivating second volume of this Eleanor Roosevelt biography covers tumultuous era of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the gathering storms of World War II, the years of the Roosevelts' greatest challenges and finest achievements. In her remarkably engaging narrative, Cook gives us the complete Eleanor Roosevelt—an adventurous, romantic woman, a devoted wife and mother, and a visionary
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
Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man
Walter Stahr · 703 pages
From one of our most acclaimed new biographers--the first full life of the leader of Lincoln's "Team of Rivals"--William Henry Seward, one of the most important Americans of the nineteenth century.
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy
David Nasaw · 882 pages
"Celebrated historian David Nasaw brings to life the story of Joseph Patrick Kennedy, in this, the first and only biography based on unrestricted and exclusive access to the Joseph P. Kennedy papers."--
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.
Grant
Jean Edward Smith · 781 pages
"Ulysses S. Grant was the first four-star general in the history of the United States Army and the only president between Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson to serve eight consecutive years in the White House. As general in chief, Grant revolutionized modern warfare. Rather than capture enemy territory or march on Southern cities, he concentrated on engaging and defeating the Confederate armies in
Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer
Fred Kaplan · 406 pages
Zachary Taylor
John S.D. Eisenhower · 167 pages
Jefferson the Virginian
Dumas Malone · 484 pages
All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
John Taliaferro · 673 pages
John Hay was both witness and author of many of the most significant chapters in American history--from the birth of the Republican Party, the Civil War, and the Spanish-American War, to the prelude to the First World War. Much of what we know about Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt comes to us through the observations Hay made while private secretary to one and secretary of state to the othe
Theodore Roosevelt
Nathan Miller · 624 pages
Eleanor and Franklin
Joseph P. Lash
A tale of two sistersTwo sisters of opposing temperaments are brought to a closer understanding by their mutual disappointments—and true love finally triumphs when sense gives way to sensibility and sensibility to sense. Austen's insightful representation of early-nineteenth-century middle-class provincial life makes her novels the enduring works on the mores and manners of her time.
Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams
Joseph J. Ellis · 282 pages
John Adams, one of the Founding Fathers of our nation and its second president, spent nearly the last third of his life in retirement grappling with contradictory views of his place in history and fearing his reputation would not fare well in the generations after his death. In an incomplete autobiography, and in numerous publications and voluminous correspondence with Thomas Jefferson and many o
The Kennedy Brothers : The Rise and Fall of Jack and Bobby
Richard D. Mahoney · 488 pages
The Great Little Madison
Jean Fritz · 159 pages
Traces the life and contributions of the sickly child with the small voice who grew up to become the fourth president of the United States.
Herbert Hoover
William E. Leuchtenburg · 192 pages
Renowned New Deal historian Leuchtenburg offers a frank, thoughtful portrait of the lifelong public servant, and shrewdly assesses Hoover's policies and legacy in the face of one of the darkest periods of American history--the Great Depression.
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.
Chester Alan Arthur
Zachary Karabell · 170 pages
This is mostly a historical account of Arthur’s presidential administration from his unexpected inauguration through passing the Pendleton Act, the Chinese Exclusion Act, and a mainly uneventful term as U.S. President.
Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr
Nancy Isenberg · 540 pages
This definitive biography of the revolutionary era villain overturns every myth and image we have of him. The narrative of America's founding is filled with godlike geniuses—Franklin, Washington, Adams, Jefferson—versus the villainous Aaron Burr. Generations have been told Burr was a betrayer—of Hamilton, of his country, of those who had nobler ideas. All untrue. He did not turn on Hamilton; rathe
An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
Robert Dallek · 848 pages
An Unfinished Life is the first authoritative single-volume life of John F. Kennedy to be written in nearly four decades. Drawing upon firsthand sources, freshly unearthed documents, and never-before-opened archives, prizewinning historian Robert Dallek reveals more than we ever knew about Jack Kennedy, forever changing the way we think about his life, his presidency, and his legacy. In a tale tha