Presidents & Heads of State
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Theodore Roosevelt (Re-Issue) P
$27.99 Add to cartPringle’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography not only chronicles the incidents that shaped Roosevelt’s career but also offers insight into the character and mind of this colorful american president. Ind… [more below]
- Author: Pringle, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: January 13 2003
- ISBN10: 0156028026
- Language: English
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life
$25.00 Add to cartNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and NPR
“We come to see in FDR the magisterial, central figure in the greatest and richest political tapestry of our nation’s entire history” –Nig- Author: Dallek, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0143111213
- Language: English
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George Washington: The Founding Father
$17.99 Add to cartBy far the most important figure in the history of the United States, George Washington liberated the thirteen colonies from the superior forces of the British Empire against all military odds, and pr
- Series: Eminent Lives
- Author: Johnson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 05 2009
- ISBN10: 0060753676
- Language: English
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Zelensky: The Unlikely Ukrainian Hero Who Defied Putin and United the World
$16.99 Read moreThe first major profile of Ukraine’s courageous President Volodymyr Zelensky!
Ukraine’s most popular comedic actor was an unlikely president of his country. And now, even more improbably, Volodymyr Ze- Author: Urban, Andrew L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1684513782
- Language: English
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Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
$18.99 Add to cartBEST BOOKS of 2017 SELECTION by * THE WASHINGTON POST * NEW YORK POST *
The harrowing, but triumphant story of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, leader of the Liberian women’s movement, winner of the Nobel Peac- Author: Cooper, Helene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1451697368
- Language: English
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Autobiography of George Washington
$19.99 Add to cartThis book, with a Foreword by best-selling author Caroline Myss, is a fascinating example of channeled literature, adding a very human personality to the stiff figure of George Washington often seen
- Author: Ellis, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: June 01 2006
- ISBN10: 140191182X
- Language: English
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An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford
$28.99 Read moreWall Street Journal Top 10 Best Books of 2023
“Richard Norton Smith had brought a lifetime of wisdom, insight, and storytelling verve to the life of a consequential president–Gerald R. Ford. Ford’s is
- Author: Smith, Richard Norton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0062684175
- Language: English
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Abraham Lincoln and Mexico: A History of Courage, Intrigue and Unlikely Friendships
$21.95 Add to cartThis book by a noted Ph.D. historian is one of the best books available about historical relations between the United States and Mexico. It shines new light on reasons for the US invasion of Mexico in
- Author: Hogan, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: September 12 2016
- ISBN10: 099695547X
- Language: English
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Woodrow Wilson: The American Presidents Series: The 28th President, 1913-1921
$31.99 Add to cartA comprehensive account of the rise and fall of one of the major shapers of American foreign policy
On the eve of his inauguration as President, Woodrow Wilson commented, It would be the irony of fate- Series: American Presidents
- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0805069550
- Language: English
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Amer Pres: Fillmore
$33.00 Add to cartThe oddly named president whose shortsightedness and stubbornness fractured the nation and sowed the seeds of civil war
In the summer of 1850, America was at a terrible crossroads. Congress was in an- Series: American Presidents
- Author: Finkelman, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 10 2011
- ISBN10: 080508715X
- Language: English
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Calvin Coolidge: The American Presidents Series: The 30th President, 1923-1929
$33.99 Add to cartThe austere president who presided over the Roaring Twenties and whose conservatism masked an innovative approach to national leadership
He was known as Silent Cal. Buttoned up and tight-lipped, Calvi- Series: American Presidents (Times)
- Author: Greenberg, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 26 2006
- ISBN10: 0805069577
- Language: English
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Harry S. Truman: The American Presidents Series: The 33rd President, 1945-1953
$32.99 Add to cartThe plainspoken man from Missouri who never expected to be president yet rose to become one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century
In April 1945, after the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt- Series: American Presidents (Times)
- Author: Dallek, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 02 2008
- ISBN10: 0805069380
- Language: English
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Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartBeneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private tunnels of self-taught study, a restless philosophical curiosity, and a profound grasp of the fundamen… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Guelzo, Allen C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 05 2009
- ISBN10: 0195367804
- Language: English
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The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s
$23.00 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller, this is the “outstanding” (The Atlantic), insightful, and authoritative account of Dwight Eisenhower’s presidency.
Drawing on newly declassified documents and thousands of- Author: Hitchcock, William I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1451698429
- Language: English
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Martin Van Buren: The American Presidents Series: The 8th President, 1837-1841
$34.00 Add to cartThe first president born after America’s independence ushers in a new era of democracy
Dive deep into the political life of the first president born after America’s independence. Martin Van Buren, ski- Series: American Presidents
- Author: Widmer, Ted
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 05 2005
- ISBN10: 0805069224
- Language: English
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Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman
$26.99 Add to cart“Never has a President of the United States, or any head of state for that matter, been so totally revealed, so completely documented” (Robert A. Arthur).
Plain Speaking is the bestselling book based- Author: Miller, Merle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0795300190
- Language: English
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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant: Volume Two
$38.95 Add to cartThis digital reproduction of the C.L. Webster Shoulder Board Set, Volume 2 of 2. Born in 1822, Grant was the son of an Ohio tanner. He went to West Point reluctantly and graduated in the middle of his
- Author: Grant, Ulysses S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 654
- Publish Date: December 19 1998
- ISBN10: 158218190X
- Language: English
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Harding: The Jazz Age President
$19.99 Read more“Presidents are ranked wrong. In Harding: The Jazz Age President, Ryan Walters mounts a case that Harding deserves to move up–and supplies the evidence to make that case strong. -Amity Shlaes, bestse… [more below]
- Series: Presidents
- Author: Walters, Ryan S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1684514282
- Language: English
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A Charge to Keep: My Journey to the White House
$17.99 Add to cartI was not elected to serve one party, but to serve one nation. The president of the United States is the president of every single American, every race and every background. Whether you voted for me o
- Author: Bush, George W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 23 2001
- ISBN10: 0060957921
- Language: English
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Amer Pres: Harrison
$33.00 Add to cartThe president who served the shortest term–just a single month–but whose victorious election campaign rewrote the rules for candidates seeking America’s highest office
William Henry Harrison died ju- Series: American Presidents (Times)
- Author: Collins, Gail
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 17 2012
- ISBN10: 0805091181
- Language: English
