Blind Ambition: The White House Years

Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War

Robert M. Gates · 640 pages

The former Secretary of Defense offers a candid account of serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir

Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney · 565 pages

"In his unmistakable voice and with an insider's eye on history, former Vice President Dick Cheney tells the story of his life and the nearly four decades he has spent at the center of American politics and power"-- "A memoir from the former Vice President of the United States"--

Front Row at the White House: My Life and Times

Helen Thomas · 416 pages

Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years

David Litt · 310 pages

"A different kind of White House memoir, presidential speechwriter David Litt's comic account of his years spent working with Barack Obama and his reflection on Obama's legacy in the age of Trump. Like many twentysomethings, David Litt frequently embarrassed himself in front of his boss's boss. Unlike many twentysomethings, Litt's boss's boss was President Obama. At age twenty-four, Litt became on

An American Life

Ronald Reagan · 748 pages

The former president tells of his life and political experiences.

A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety

Jimmy Carter · 257 pages

Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House

Alyssa Mastromonaco, Lauren Oyler · 248 pages

"If your funny older sister were the former deputy chief of staff to President Barack Obama, her behind-the-scenes political memoir would look something like this. [This book] is an intimate and admiring portrait of a president, a candid book of advice for young women, and a promising debut from a savvy political star"--

What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era

Peggy Noonan

My Life

Bill Clinton · 957 pages

Portrays Bill Clinton's years before public life, and his years in politics. Tells what it is like to be President of the United States.

All Too Human

George Stephanopoulos · 480 pages

All Too Human is a new-generation political memoir, written from the refreshing perspective of one who got his hands on the levers of awesome power at an early age. At thirty, the author was at Bill Clinton's side during the presidential campaign of 1992, & for the next five years he was rarely more than a step away from the president & his other advisers at every important moment of the first ter

Decision Points

George W. Bush · 497 pages

In this candid and gripping account, President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions that shaped his presidency and personal life. George W. Bush served as president of the United States during eight of the most consequential years in American history. The decisions that reached his desk impacted people around the world and defined the times in which we live. Decision Points brings

Long Walk to Freedom

Nelson Mandela · 638 pages

The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, Long Walk to Freedom brilliantly recreates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. Emotive, compelling and uplifting, Long Walk to Freedom is the exhilarating story of an epic life; a story of hardship, resilience and ultimate triumph told with the clarity and eloquence of a born leader

Living History

Hillary Rodham Clinton · 564 pages

[The author writes] about her upbringing in suburban, middle-class America in the 1950s and her transformation from Goldwater Girl to student activist to controversial First Lady. [This book] is her revealing memoir of life through the White House years. It is also her chronicle of living history with Bill Clinton. -Dust jacket.

Becoming

Michelle Obama · 432 pages

In this adaptation of her autobiography for younger readers, Michelle Obama presents an account of her life, and, in telling of her own personal evolution, stresses the need for people to realize that no one is perfect, that the process of "becoming" is what really matters.

Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford

Clint Hill, Lisa McCubbin · 457 pages

Retired Secret Service agent Clint Hill brings history to life with this portrait of the American presidency. Hill delivers the perspective of an everyman who saw some of the most historic moments of the 20th century during his seventeen years protecting the most powerful office in the nation. Hill walked alongside Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford, seeing them through a lon

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

Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson · 110 pages

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Volume 2

Ulysses S. Grant · 468 pages

Behind the Scenes Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House

Elizabeth Keckley · 172 pages

The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt · 454 pages

"The long and eventful life of Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) was full of rich experiences and courageous actions. The niece of Theodore Roosevelt, she married a Columbia University law student named Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who gradually ascended in the world of New York politics to reach the presidency in 1932. Throughout his three terms, Eleanor Roosevelt was not only intimately involved in FD

Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Robert F. Kennedy

Born Again: What Really Happened to the White House Hatchet Man

Charles W. Colson · 382 pages

Dereliction of Duty

Robert Patterson · 216 pages

I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala

Rigoberta Menchu · 251 pages