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The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity
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Doris Kearns Goodwin · 916 pages
Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president. On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the R
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
Rick Perlstein · 881 pages
Richard Nixon's political history, from Congress to the White House, with an emphasis on his political strategies.
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
Jon Meacham · 694 pages
Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency. Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of power, bending the nation to his will in the cause of democracy. Jackson's election in 1828 ushered in a new
Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power
Robert Dallek · 752 pages
With the publication of his magisterial biography of John F. Kennedy, An Unfinished Life, Robert Dallek cemented his reputation as one of the greatest historians of our time. Now, in this epic joint biography, he offers a provocative, groundbreaking portrait of a pair of outsize leaders whose unlikely partnership dominated the world stage and changed the course of history.More than thirty years af
The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope
Jonathan Alter · 432 pages
This is the story of a political miracle--the perfect match of man and moment. FDR took office in 1933 as America touched bottom. Banks were closing, millions of people lost everything--the Great Depression had caused a national breakdown. Journalist Alter brings us closer than ever before to the Roosevelt magic. Facing the gravest crisis since the Civil War, instead of circumventing Congress and
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Joseph J. Ellis · 304 pages
In this landmark work of history, the National Book Award--winning author of American Sphinx explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed individuals--Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Adams, and Madison--confronted the overwhelming challenges before them to set the course for our nation.The United States was more a fragile hope than a reality in 1790. During the decade
The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House
John F. Harris · 552 pages
The Haldeman diaries
H. R. Haldeman · 698 pages
The Passage of Power
Robert A. Caro · 712 pages
Pulitizer Prize biographer Robert A. Caro follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and the most triumphant periods of his career, describing Johnson's volatile relationship with John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy during the fight they waged for the 1960 Democratic nomination for president, through Johnson's unhappy vice presidency, his assumption to the presidency after Kennedy's assa
My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams
Abigail Adams, John Adams · 528 pages
A collection of letters between Abigail and John Adams written from 1762 to 1801 covering topics of revolution, independence, and nation building, along with those that reflect their love for one another.
The Reagan Diaries
Ronald Reagan · 696 pages
One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon
Tim Weiner · 376 pages
Draws on recently declassified documents to chronicle one of the most disastrous presidencies in U.S. history, presenting a portrait of a brilliant man overcome by his deep insecurities and his distrust of his cabinet, Congress, and the American people. Here is the first history of President Richard Nixon covering all of his secret tapes and documents, many declassified in the past two years. Awa
Kennedy and Nixon: The Rivalry That Shaped Postwar America
Chris Matthews · 400 pages
War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton and the Generals
David Halberstam · 544 pages
"More than twenty-five years ago Halberstam told the riveting story of the men who conceived and executed the Vietnam War. Today the author has written another chronicle of Washington politics, this time exploring the complex dynamics of foreign policy in post-Cold War America.". "Halberstam evokes the internecine conflicts, the untrammeled egos, and the struggles for dominance among the key figu
A Promised Land
Barack Obama · 768 pages
A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy. In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political
The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It
Richard Hofstadter · 560 pages
Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet
James Mann · 437 pages
The Dark Side of Camelot
Seymour M. Hersh · 498 pages
This monumental work of investigative journalism reveals the Kennedy White House as never before. With its meticulously documented & compulsively readable portrait of John F. Kennedy as a man whose reckless personal behavior imperiled his presidency, *The Dark Side of Camelot* sparked a firestorm of controversy upon its initial publication - becoming a runaway bestseller & one of the year's most t
The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History With the President
Taylor Branch · 707 pages
While still a sitting president, Bill Clinton initiated a project to preserve for historians an unfiltered record of presidential experience. Clinton talks intimately over seven years to his long-time friend, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, about what it's like to be president, highlighting major events from Clinton's two terms, including war in Bosnia, the anti-deficit crusade, health reform
Lincoln
David Herbert Donald · 714 pages
The phenomenal national bestseller that is "the Lincoln biography for this generation" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.)-now in paperback. Drawing on resources not available until recently, including Lincoln's personal papers, archives, and newspaper reports, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Herbert Donald presents a masterful account of Lincoln's rise to the presidency and the political and p
Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow · 832 pages
From National Book Award winner Ron Chernow, a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation.In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, National Book Award winner Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. Acc
Speeches and Writings, 1859-1865
Abraham Lincoln · 788 pages