Presidents & Heads of State
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Rutherford B. Hayes: The American Presidents Series: The 19th President, 1877-1881
$35.00 Add to cartA leader of the Reconstruction era, whose contested election eerily parallels the election debacle of 2000
The disputed election of 1876 between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden, in which Congre- Series: American Presidents
- Author: Trefousse, Hans Louis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 05 2002
- ISBN10: 0805069089
- Language: English
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The Virtues of Aging
$17.00 Add to cartFormer president Jimmy Carter reflects on aging, blending memoir, anecdote, political savvy, and practical advice to truly illuminate the rich promises of growing older.
“As we’ve grown older, the res- Series: Library of Contemporary Thought
- Author: Carter, Jimmy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 13 1998
- ISBN10: 0345425928
- Language: English
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The House of Kennedy
$17.99 Add to cartNow with an all-new bonus chapter–in the bestselling The House of Kennedy, “James Patterson applies his writerly skills to real-life history . . . re-telling the political clan’s rise and fall and ri… [more below]
- Author: Patterson, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0316702838
- Language: English
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His Excellency: George Washington
$20.00 Add to cartNational Bestseller
To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and lyric prose that have made him one of the premier historians- Author: Ellis, Joseph J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 08 2005
- ISBN10: 1400032539
- Language: English
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Zachary Taylor: The American Presidents Series: The 12th President, 1849-1850
$31.99 Add to cartThe rough-hewn general who rose to the nation’s highest office, and whose presidency witnessed the first political skirmishes that would lead to the Civil War
Zachary Taylor was a soldier’s soldier, a- Series: American Presidents (Times)
- Author: Eisenhower, John S. D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 27 2008
- ISBN10: 0805082379
- Language: English
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The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941-1942
$17.99 Add to cartA dramatic, eye-opening account of how FDR took personal charge of the military direction of World War II.
Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving Roosevelt aides and… [more below]
- Series: FDR at War
- Author: Hamilton, Nigel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 19 2015
- ISBN10: 0544227840
- Language: English
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Jack and Lem: John F. Kennedy and Lem Billings: The Untold Story of an Extraordinary Friendship
$21.99 Add to cartJack and Lem explores the enduring friendship between John F. Kennedy and Kirk Lemoyne Billings (aka “Lem”). Jack Kennedy and Lem Billings met at Choate and remained friends until the Dallas gunfire t… [more below]
- Author: Pitts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 25 2008
- ISBN10: 0306816237
- Language: English
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The Kennedys in the World: How Jack, Bobby, and Ted Remade America’s Empire
$36.95 Add to cartThe Kennedys in the World tells a new, rich, fascinating, and consequential story about Jack, Bobby, and Ted Kennedy. From an early age the brothers developed a deep understanding of the different peo… [more below]
- Author: Haas, Lawrence J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1640123849
- Language: English
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Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
$18.99 Add to cartInstant New York Times Bestseller
New York Times bestselling author Sarah
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Midwest Indie Bestseller- Author: Kendzior, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1250779405
- Language: English
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In the Houses of Their Dead: The Lincolns, the Booths, and the Spirits
$18.95 Add to cartIn 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1324093587
- Language: English
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Napoleon
$28.00 Add to cartFrom Alan Forrest, a preeminent British scholar, comes an exceedingly readable account of the man and his legend
On a cold December day in 1840 Parisians turned out in force to watch as the body of Na- Author: Forrest, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1250038359
- Language: English
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The Final Days
$20.00 Add to cart“An extraordinary work of reportage on the epic political story of our time” (Newsweek)–from Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthors of All the President’s Men.
The Final Da- Author: Woodward, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0743274067
- Language: English
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Being So Gentle: The Frontier Love Story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson
$35.99 Add to cartThe forty-year love affair between Rachel and Andrew Jackson parallels a tumultuous period in American history. Andrew Jackson was at the forefront of the American revolution–but he never could have
- Author: Brady, Patricia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0230609503
- Language: English
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This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa’s First Woman President
$19.99 Add to cart“Exceptionally well written, a true story that seems as much a thriller as the remembrances of an ambitious and brave woman. . . . This timely book. . . is a lesson in courage and perseverance.” — Wa
- Author: Sirleaf, Ellen Johnson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 13 2010
- ISBN10: 0061353485
- Language: English
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Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times
$23.00 Read moreNow an Apple TV+ documentary, Lincoln’s Dilemma.
One of the Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Books of the Year A Washington Post Notable Book A Christian Science Monitor and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of- Author: Reynolds, David S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1088
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 0143110764
- Language: English
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His Masterly Pen: A Biography of Jefferson the Writer
$35.00 Read moreAs he did for Abraham Lincoln and John Quincy Adams, award-winning biographer Fred Kaplan offers a fresh, illuminating look at the life of Thomas Jefferson and his contributions as a writer.
In this un
- Author: Kaplan, Fred
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0062440039
- Language: English
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Rage
$19.99 Add to cartRage is an unprecedented and intimate tour de force of new reporting on the Trump presidency facing a global pandemic, economic disaster and racial unrest.
Woodward, the #1 international bestselling a- Author: Woodward, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1982131748
- Language: English
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Ho Chi Minh: A Life
$39.00 Add to cartTo grasp the complicated causes and consequences of the Vietnam War, one must understand the extraordinary life of Ho Chi Minh, the man generally recognized as the father of modern Vietnam. Duiker pro… [more below]
- Author: Duiker, William J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: February 22 2007
- ISBN10: 0786863870
- Language: English
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Churchill’s Trial: Winston Churchill and the Salvation of Free Government
$22.99 Read more“A masterpiece of political philosophy and practical statesmanship…the one book on Winston Churchill that every undergraduate, every graduate student, every professional historian, and every member
- Author: Arnn, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 25 2016
- ISBN10: 0718096215
- Language: English
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The Wit & Wisdom of FDR
$13.99 Add to cartIn Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, the premier collection of noted sayings, Mark Twain is the only American with more citations under his name than Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR was the greatest raco
- Author: Humes, James C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 11 2008
- ISBN10: 0061231487
- Language: English
