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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorMy 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 Age of Jackson
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. · 576 pages
1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs -- The Election that Changed the Country
James Chace · 323 pages
Presidential politics in one crucial year of the Progressive Era—before TV, polls, and consultants: not a horse race so much as a contact sport. Veteran journalist and editor Chace (Govt. and International Affairs/Bard Coll.; Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World, 1998, etc.) does not present a fresh interpretation of the 1912 election, but he offers a lively recounting
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
David M. Kennedy · 936 pages
Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. Freedom from Fear tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities. David M. Kennedy demonstrates that the economic crisis of the 1930s was more than a reaction to the excesses of the 1920s. For more than a century
Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America
Adam Cohen · 372 pages
Brings to life a fulcrum moment in American history--the tense, feverish first one hundred days of FDR's presidency, when he and his inner circle completely reinvented the role of the federal government in response to the Crash of 1929 and its consequences.
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
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
Doris Kearns Goodwin · 759 pages
From the best-selling author of The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys and Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream comes a compelling chronicle of a nation and its leaders during the period when modern America was created. Presenting an aspect of American history that has never been fully told, Doris Kearns Goodwin writes a brilliant narrative account of how the United States of 1940, an isolationist cou
Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders & How They Changed America 1789-1989
Michael R. Beschloss · 448 pages
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
David Pietrusza · 538 pages
"Pietrusza's new work presents a panorama of presidential personalities, ambitions, plots and counterplots, deadlocked conventions, and smoke-filled rooms - a picture of America at the crossroads of the modern era."--Jacket.
The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century
Scott Miller · 422 pages
The era leading up to the assassination of President William McKinley in 1901 was defined by enormous expansion in American industry and muscle-flexing abroad as well as the potent rise of labor unrest and revolutionary ideas such as anarchy. The growth of railroads, steel output, consumer goods, patents and sheer American ingenuity enriched the captains of industry, while the laborers, assembly-l
The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
Sean Wilentz · 992 pages
Whistlestop: My Favorite Stories from Presidential Campaign History
John Dickerson · 439 pages
"Whistlestop tells the human story of nervous gambits hatched in first-floor hotel rooms, failures of will before the microphone, and the cross-country crack-ups of long-planned stratagems. At the bar at the end of a campaign day, these are the stories reporters rehash for themselves and embellish for newcomers. In addition to the familiar tales, Whistlestop ... is a ride through the American camp
They Killed Our President: 63 Reasons to Believe There Was a Conspiracy to Assassinate JFK
Jesse Ventura, Dick Russell, David Wayne · 368 pages
The former governor of Minnesota teams up with a successful author and some of the most respected and influential assassination researchers to provide all the conspiracy angles of this notable event in American history.
The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat
Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein · 260 pages
Madison and Jefferson
Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg · 809 pages
The third and fourth presidents have long been considered proper and noble gentlemen, with Thomas Jefferson's genius overshadowing James Madison's judgment and common sense. But in this revelatory book, both leaders are seen as men of their times, ruthless and hardboiled operatives in a gritty world of primal politics where they struggled for supremacy for more than fifty years.
Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
Steve Sheinkin · 370 pages
From Steve Sheinkin, the award-winning author of The Port Chicago 50 and Bomb comes a tense, exciting exploration of what the Times deemed “the greatest story of the century”: how Daniel Ellsberg transformed from obscure government analyst into “the most dangerous man in America,” and risked everything to expose the government’s deceit. On June 13, 1971, the front page of the New York Times announ
The Path to Power
Robert A. Caro · 882 pages
Traces Johnson's life from his Texas childhood through his rise to political power and his successful 1948 senatorial campaign.
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.
The Untold History of The United States
Oliver Stone, Peter Kuznick · 750 pages
A companion to the ten-part documentary series outlines provocative arguments against official American historical records to reveal the origins of conservatism and the obstacles to progressive change.
JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters
James W. Douglass · 514 pages
In this fascinating and disturbing book James Douglass presents a compelling account of why President John F. Kennedy was assassinated and why the unmasking of this truth remains crucial for the future of our country and the world. Drawing on a vast field of investigation, including many sources available only in recent years, Douglass lays out a sequence of steps by JFK that transformed him, o
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
The Best and the Brightest
David Halberstam · 688 pages
David Halberstam's masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain.Using portraits of America's flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, The Best and the Brightest reckons magnificently with the most important abiding question of our country's recent history: Why did America become mired in Vietnam, and why
Speeches and Writings, 1859-1865
Abraham Lincoln · 788 pages
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Candice Millard · 494 pages
James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, and a renowned and admired reformist congressman. Nominated for president against his will, he engaged in a fierce battle with the corrupt political establishment. But four months after his inauguration, a deranged office seeker tracked