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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Kennedy Brothers : The Rise and Fall of Jack and Bobby
Richard D. Mahoney · 488 pages
The Life of Abraham Lincoln
Henry Ketcham · 232 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
Thomas Jefferson: A Life
Willard Sterne Randall
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.
John Quincy Adams
Harlow Giles Unger · 384 pages
Jefferson and the Rights of Man
Dumas Malone · 523 pages
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.
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.
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.
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'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
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.
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
James K. Polk
John Seigenthaler · 208 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.
Master of the Senate
Robert A. Caro · 1,232 pages
Benjamin Harrison
Charles W. Calhoun · 206 pages
Politics was in Benjamin Harrison's blood. His great-grandfather signed the Declaration of Independence and his grandfather, William Henry Harrison, was the ninth president of the United States. Harrison, a leading Indiana lawyer, became a Republican Party champion, even taking a leave from the Civil War to campaign for Lincoln. After a scandal-free term in the Senate -- no small feat in the Gilde
Zachary Taylor
John S.D. Eisenhower · 167 pages
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
Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman
Merle Miller
Millard Fillmore: Biography of a President
Robert J. Rayback · 484 pages
For some reason hard to understand, the historically minded public has had to wait 85 years since the death of a president for an adequate biography. This gap has now been filled with Dr. Rayback's authoritative work on Millard Fillmore. It is no eulogy; rather, it is honest and unprejudiced, describing and assaying his defects of judgment such as his leadership of two absurd parties at the beginn
Theodore Roosevelt
Nathan Miller · 624 pages