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Citizen Soldier: A Life of Harry S. Truman
by Donald, Aida D.
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- 2012
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Citizen Soldier: A Life of Harry S. Truman by Aida D. Donald
In Citizen Soldier, acclaimed biographer Aida D. Donald presents a psychologically penetraiting portrait of Harry S. Truman, the unlikely president who rose from a modest background to preside over the end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War. Drawing on recently opened government documents and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Haig's Coup: How Richard Nixon's Closest Aide Forced Him from Office
by Locker, Ray
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- 2019
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- 9781640120358
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Haig's Coup: How Richard Nixon's Closest Aide Forced Him from Office by Ray Locker
When General Alexander M. Haig Jr. returned to the White House on May 3, 1973, he found the Nixon administration in worse shape than he had imagined. President Richard Nixon, reelected in an overwhelming landslide just six months earlier, had accepted the resignations of his top aides… Read more about this item Item Price
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Washington's Revolution: The Making of America's First Leader
by Middlekauff, Robert
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- 2015
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Washington's Revolution: The Making of America's First Leader by Robert Middlekauff
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A vivid, insightful, essential new account of the formative years that shaped a callow George Washington into an extraordinary leader, from the Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Robert Middlekauff.
George Washington was famously unknowable, a man of deep passions… Read more about this item Item Price
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Lincoln and the Fight for Peace
by Avlon, John
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- 2022
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Lincoln and the Fight for Peace by John Avlon
As the tide of the Civil War turned in the spring of 1865, Abraham Lincoln, accompanied by his young son, took a dangerous two-week trip to visit the troops on the front lines -- seeing combat up close, greeting liberated slaves in the ruins of Richmond and comforting wounded Union and Confederate… Read more about this item Item Price
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Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History
by Fox, Richard Wightman
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- 2015
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Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History by Richard Wightman Fox
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Even a century and a half after Abraham Lincoln's death, we, like Walt Whitman, "love the President personally."
In a stunning feat of scholarship, insight, and engaging prose, LINCOLN'S BODY explores how a president ungainly in body and downright "ugly" of aspect came… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland
by Jones, Seth G.
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- 2018
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A Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland by Seth G. Jones
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December 1981 -- the CIA learns that the Polish government has cut telephone communications with the West and closed the border. The agency's leaders rush to brief President Ronald Reagan at Camp David. Within… Read more about this item Item Price
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Washington's End: The Final Years and Forgotten Struggle
by Horn, Jonathan
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- 2020
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Washington's End: The Final Years and Forgotten Struggle by Jonathan Horn
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Washington's End begins where most biographies of George Washington leave off, with the first president exiting office after eight years and entering what would become the most bewildering stage of his life. Embittered by partisan criticism and eager to return… Read more about this item Item Price
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White House by the Sea: A Century of the Kennedys at Hyannis Port
by Storey, Kate
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- 2023
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- 9781982159184
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White House by the Sea: A Century of the Kennedys at Hyannis Port by Kate Storey
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Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, is synonymous with the Kennedy family. It is where, for a hundred years, America's most storied political family has come to celebrate, bond, play, and grieve. It is also the setting of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Unlikely Heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made
by Leebaert, Derek
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- 2023
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- 9781250274694
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Unlikely Heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made by Derek Leebaert
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Unlikely Heroes provides an entirely new understanding of Franklin Roosevelt and his presidency. Only four people served at the top echelon of FDR's administration from the frightening early months of spring 1933 until he died in… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter
by Bird, Kai
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- 2021
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The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter by Kai Bird
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Four decades after Ronald Reagan's landslide win in 1980, Jimmy Carter's one-term presidency is often labeled a failure; indeed, many Americans view Carter as the only ex-president to have used the White House as a stepping-stone to greater achievements. But… Read more about this item Item Price
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James Monroe: A Life
by McGrath, Tim
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James Monroe: A Life by Tim McGrath
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Monroe lived a life defined by revolutions. From the battlefields of the War for Independence, to his ambassadorship in Paris in the days of the guillotine, to his own role in the creation of Congress's partisan divide, he was a man who embodied the restless spirit… Read more about this item Item Price
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Dallas 1963
by Minutaglio, Bill & Steven L. Davis
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- 2013
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Dallas 1963 by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis
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In the early 1960s, Dallas was brewing with political passions, a city crammed with larger-than-life characters dead-set against the Kennedy presidency. These included rabid warriors like defrocked military general Edwin A. Walker; the world's richest oil baron, H.L. Hunt; the leader of… Read more about this item Item Price
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1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder
by Herman, Arthur
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- 2017
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1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder by Arthur Herman
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In April 1917, Woodrow Wilson -- champion of American democracy, but also of segregation, advocate for free trade and a new world order based on freedom and justice -- thrust the United States into the First World… Read more about this item Item Price
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Sex with Presidents: The Ins and Outs of Love and Lust in the White House
by Herman, Eleanor
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Sex with Presidents: The Ins and Outs of Love and Lust in the White House by Eleanor Herman
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While Americans have a reputation for being straitlaced, many of the nation's leaders have been anything but puritanical. Alexander Hamilton had a steamy affair with a blackmailing prostitute. Warren G. Harding and Grover… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Black Man's President: Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, & the Pursuit of Racial Equality
by Burlingame, Michael
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The Black Man's President: Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, & the Pursuit of Racial Equality by Michael Burlingame
In a little-noted eulogy delivered shortly after Lincoln's assassination, Frederick Douglass called the martyred president "emphatically the black man's president," the "first to show any respect for their rights as men." To justify that description, Douglass pointed not just to Lincoln's official acts and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Incomparable Grace: JFK in the Presidency
by Updegrove, Mark K.
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Incomparable Grace: JFK in the Presidency by Mark K. Updegrove
Nearly sixty years after his death, JFK still holds an outsize place in the American imagination. While Baby Boomers remember his dazzling presence as president, millennials more likely know him from advertisements for Omega watches or Ray-Ban sunglasses. Yet his years in office were marked by more than his style and… Read more about this item Item Price
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The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul
by Kilmeade, Brian
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The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul by Brian Kilmeade
In 1861, a bloody civil war loomed on America's horizon. No longer was it possible to pretend that slaveholding was consistent with the values of America's founding, but how fast could the country change? And could slavery be abolished while keeping… Read more about this item Item Price
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Presidents of War: The Epic Story from 1807 to Modern Times
by Beschloss, Michael
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- 2018
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Presidents of War: The Epic Story from 1807 to Modern Times by Michael Beschloss
Ten years in the making, Presidents of War is a fresh, intimate, irresistibly readable narrative of how a procession of Chief Executives took the nation into major conflicts, mobilized Americans for victory, and seized greater power for themselves. Beschloss's findings in original letters, diaries, and declassified documents,… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland
by Senik, Troy
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A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland by Troy Senik
Grover Cleveland's political career -- a dizzying journey that saw him rise from obscure lawyer to president of the United States in just three years -- was marked by contradictions. A politician of uncharacteristic honesty and principle, he was nevertheless dogged by secrets from his… Read more about this item Item Price
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Rough Riders: Theodore Roosevelt, His Cowboy Regiment, and the Immortal Charge Up San Juan Hill
by Gardner, Mark Lee
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- 2016
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Rough Riders: Theodore Roosevelt, His Cowboy Regiment, and the Immortal Charge Up San Juan Hill by Mark Lee Gardner
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The explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in February 1898 stunned the world and triggered a war between the United States and Spain. Congress authorized President McKinley to recruit a… Read more about this item Item Price
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