Presidents & Heads of State
-
Franklin Pierce: The American Presidents Series: The 14th President, 1853-1857
$34.00 Add to cartThe genial but troubled New Englander whose single-minded partisan loyalties inflamed the nation’s simmering battle over slavery
Charming and handsome, Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire was drafted to- Series: American Presidents
- Author: Holt, Michael F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 30 2010
- ISBN10: 0805087192
- Language: English
-
William Howard Taft
$35.00 Add to cartThe only man to serve as president and chief justice, who approached every decision in constitutional terms, defending the Founders’ vision against new populist threats to American democracy
William H- Series: American Presidents
- Author: Rosen, Jeffrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0805069542
- Language: English
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady
$16.99 Read more#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
What Melania wants, Melania gets. The former director of special events at Vogue and producer of nine legendary Met Galas, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff met Melania Knauss in- Author: Winston Wolkoff, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1982151250
- Language: English
-
Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
$20.00 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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
Commander in Chief: Fdr’s Battle with Churchill, 1943
$19.99 Add to cartFrom Nigel Hamilton’s acclaimed World War II saga, the astonishing story of FDR’s yearlong, defining battle with Churchill in 1943, as the war raged in Africa and Italy.
1943 was the year of Allied mil… [more below]
- Series: FDR at War #2
- Author: Hamilton, Nigel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0544944461
- Language: English
-
Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
$27.99 Add to cartTheodore Roosevelt’s writing has the same verve, panache, and energy as the life he lived. Perhaps no president in U.S. history–not even Jefferson–had so many opinions and intellectual interests, be… [more below]
- Author: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 636
- Publish Date: March 22 1985
- ISBN10: 0306802325
- Language: English
-
The Five Negro Presidents: According to what White People Said They Were
$6.99 Add to cartHistorian Joel Augustus Rogers provides his evidence that there have been nineteenth- and twentieth-century presidents of the United States who had partial black ancestry, including Harding, Jefferson
- Author: Rogers, J. a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 22
- Publish Date: August 22 2017
- ISBN10: 1684114241
- Language: English
-
Dinner with the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House
$26.00 Add to cartA wonderfully entertaining, often surprising history of presidential taste, from the grim meals eaten by Washington and his starving troops at Valley Forge to Trump’s fast-food burgers and Biden’s ice… [more below]
- Author: Prud’homme, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0525433031
- Language: English
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
Poems by Presidents: The First-Ever Anthology
$14.95 Read more“Well-written, thoroughly researched, and impeccably organized, Poems by Presidents explores an intriguing and unexpected side to many American presidents: they wrote poetry! In this excellent antholo… [more below]
- Author: Croland, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 13 2023
- ISBN10: 0486851532
- Language: English
