Presidents & Heads of State
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The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at Peace
$39.00 Add to cartA revealing portrait of the end of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s life and presidency, shedding new light on how he made his momentous final policy decisions
The first hundred days of FDR’s presidency a- Author: Woolner, David B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 12 2017
- ISBN10: 0465048714
- Language: English
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Our Lincoln: New Perspectives on Lincoln and His World
$25.99 Add to cartAmong these original essays by prize-winning historians, James M. McPherson examines Lincoln’s deft navigation of the crosscurrents of politics and wartime strategy. Sean Wilentz elegantly explores Li
- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: November 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393337057
- Language: English
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Conversations with Kennedy
$22.99 Add to cartBen Bradlee first came to know John Kennedy well when they were Washington neighbors in 1958. They remained good friends and off-the-record confidants until President Kennedy’s death. They also had a … [more below]
- Author: Bradlee, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: November 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0393301893
- Language: English
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Abraham Lincoln
$14.99 Add to cartMarking the two-hundredth anniversary of Lincoln’s birth, this marvelous short biography by a leading historian offers an illuminating portrait of one of the giants in the American story. It is the be… [more below]
- Author: McPherson, James M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0195374525
- Language: English
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All-American Dogs: A History of Presidential Pets from Every Era
$23.99 Add to cartFrom historian-in-residence at the Presidential Pet Museum, Andrew Hager, comes a fond, fascinating, and often surprising look at the dogs who were the best friends of the presidents, featuring unforg
- Author: Hager, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 0063158272
- Language: English
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Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy
$17.99 Add to cartLook for Dan Abrams and David Fisher’s new book, Kennedy’s Avenger: Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby.
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- Author: Fisher, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 1335081917
- Language: English
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Who’s Buried in Grant’s Tomb?: A Tour of Presidential Gravesites
$21.99 Add to cartSome presidents have been larger than life but none of them have been larger than death. Brian Lamb has visited the gravesites of every American president, living and dead, in order to put together th… [more below]
- Author: Lamb, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 09 2010
- ISBN10: 1586488694
- Language: English
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At the Table with LBJ and Lady Bird: History, Humor, and True Texas Recipes
$38.95 Add to cartWelcome to the table! This is a love story about an ambassador and two Texans. Not any ol’ ambassador or any ol’ Texans. He was Lyndon Baines Johnson, and she was Claudia Alta Taylor, better known as
- Author: Schuler, Jean E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: November 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0875658237
- Language: English
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
$35.00 Add to cartA masterly work by the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill and Gladstone
A protean figure and a man of massive achievement, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only man to be elected to the p- Series: American Presidents (Times)
- Author: Jenkins, Roy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: November 04 2003
- ISBN10: 0805069593
- Language: English
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John Adams: The American Presidents Series: The 2nd President, 1797-1801
$34.00 Add to cartA revealing look at the true beginning of American politics
Until recently rescued by David McCullough, John Adams has always been overshadowed by Washington and Jefferson. Volatile, impulsive, irrita- Series: American Presidents
- Author: Diggins, John Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0805069372
- Language: English
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Affection and Trust: The Personal Correspondence of Harry S. Truman and Dean Acheson, 1953-1971
$26.95 Add to cartIn this riveting collection, available for the first time in paperback, we follow Harry S. Truman and Dean Acheson, two giants of the post-World War II period who were primarily responsible for the Ma
- Author: Truman, Harry S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: March 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0803245262
- Language: English
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Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed the Nation and Why
$27.99 Add to cartThe Warren Commission’s major conclusion was that Lee Harvey Oswald was the “lone assassin” of President John F. Kennedy. Gerald McKnight rebuts that view in a meticulous and devastating dissection of… [more below]
- Author: McKnight, Gerald D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: October 04 2005
- ISBN10: 0700619399
- Language: English
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Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
$76.99 Add to cartRemembered by many as the Soviet leader who banged his shoe at the United Nations, Nikita Khrushchev was in fact one of the most complex and important political figures of the twentieth century. Compl… [more below]
- Author: Taubman, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: November 18 2010
- ISBN10: 0393051447
- Language: English
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Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer
$19.99 Add to cart“A fine, invaluable book. . . . Certain to become essential to our understanding of the 16th president. . . . Kaplan meticulously analyzes how Lincoln’s steadily maturing prose style enabled him to co
- Author: Kaplan, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0060773367
- Language: English
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Lincoln’s Unfinished Work: The New Birth of Freedom from Generation to Generation
$49.95 Add to cartIn his Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln promised that the nation’s sacrifices during the Civil War would lead to a “new birth of freedom.” Lincoln’s Unfinished Work analyzes how the United States h
- Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
- Author: Burton, Orville Vernon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0807176761
- Language: English
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In the Houses of Their Dead: The Lincolns, the Booths, and the Spirits
$27.95 Read moreIn the 1820s, two families, unknown to each other, worked on farms in the American wilderness. It seemed unlikely that the families would ever meet–and yet, they did. The son of one family, the famed
- Author: Alford, Terry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1631495607
- Language: English
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Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy
$19.99 Add to cart“Before she met Jack Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier was a columnist at the Washington Times-Herald, the paper’s ‘Inquiring Camera Girl, ‘ who posed intelligent and amusing questions to the public on the … [more below]
- Author: Anthony, Carl Sferrazza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1982141883
- Language: English
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President McKinley: Architect of the American Century
$23.00 Add to cartAcclaimed historian Robert Merry resurrects the presidential reputation of William McKinley in a “measured, insightful biography that seeks to set the record straight…a deft character study of a pre
- Author: Merry, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: November 06, 2018
- ISBN10: 1451625456
- Language: English
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Not White Enough: How Victorian Racism Contributed to the Destruction of a Photographic Genius
$34.99 Add to cartShe’s sixteen, shunned, isolated and possibly pregnant. This is Marie who thought she had the world by the tail a few months ago. She had married a handsome, professional European man who adored her. … [more below]
- Author: Morris, Muriel J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1039159508
- Language: English
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El Destructor / The Destroyer
$18.95 Read moreS? POD?A SABERSE.
S? pod?a saberse lo que iba a ocurrir si Andr?s Manuel L?pez Obrador llegaba a la Presidencia. Bastaba observar, poner atenci?n, seguir los pasos que fue dando desde sus or?genes com… [more below]- Author: Hiriart, Pablo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 6073824971
- Language: Spanish
