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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorJefferson the Virginian
Dumas Malone · 484 pages
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
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
John Quincy Adams
Harlow Giles Unger · 384 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
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.
Colonel Roosevelt
Edmund Morris · 775 pages
This biography by Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize -- and National Book Award -- winning author of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and Theodore Rex, marks the completion of a trilogy sure to stand as definitive. Of all our great presidents, Theodore Roosevelt is the only one whose greatness increased out of office. What other president has written forty books, hunted lions, founded a third politic
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.
The Life of Abraham Lincoln
Henry Ketcham · 232 pages
Zachary Taylor
John S.D. Eisenhower · 167 pages
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream
Doris Kearns Goodwin · 432 pages
John Quincy Adams: American Visionary
Fred Kaplan · 652 pages
A brilliant combination of literary analysis and historical detail, this masterfully written biography of the much misunderstood sixth president of the United States reveals the many sides of this forward-thinking man whose progressive vision helped shape the course of America.
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
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.
James Madison: A Biography
Ralph Louis Ketcham · 753 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
With Malice Toward None: A Biography of Abraham Lincoln
Stephen B. Oates · 492 pages
A biography of the sixteenth President of the United States, covering both his personal and public life.
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.
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.
James K. Polk
John Seigenthaler · 208 pages
Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America
Walter R. Borneman · 422 pages
In Polk, Walter R. Borneman gives us the first complete and authoritative biography of a president often overshadowed in image but seldom outdone in accomplishment. James K. Polk occupied the White House for only four years, from 1845 to 1849, but he plotted and attained a formidable agenda: He fought for and won tariff reductions, reestablished an independent Treasury, and, most notably, brought