Presidents & Heads of State
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By: Stark, Peter
Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America’s Founding Father
$18.99PaperbackRead moreFINALIST FOR THE GEORGE WASHINGTON BOOK PRIZE
A new, brash, and unexpected view of the president we thought we knew, from the bestselling author of Astoria
Two decades before he led America to independe
- Author: Stark, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0062416073
- Language: English
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By: Taubman, William
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
$30.00PaperbackAdd to cartThe definitive biography of the mercurial Soviet leader who succeeded and denounced Stalin. Nikita Khrushchev was one of the most complex and important political figures of the twentieth century. Rule… [more below]
- Author: Taubman, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 871
- Publish Date: April 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0393324842
- Language: English
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By: Leavy, Michael
The Lincoln Funeral Train
$23.99PaperbackRead moreThe effective end of the American Civil War on April 9, 1865, had hardly sunk in when, only five days later, another disaster stunned the battered and bloodied nation. On the night of April 9, Pres. A… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Leavy, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1467109525
- Language: English
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By: Ross, Dennis
Be Strong and of Good Courage: How Israel’s Most Important Leaders Shaped Its Destiny
$30.00HardcoverRead moreModern Israel’s founding fathers provided some of the boldest and most principled leadership of any nation–now Israel needs their example more than ever.
Modern Israel’s founding fathers provided some… [more below]- Author: Ross, Dennis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1541767659
- Language: English
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By: Cheney, Lynne
The Virginia Dynasty: Four Presidents and the Creation of the American Nation
$20.00PaperbackRead more“The narrative offers informed, exacting characterizations of the uncertain political alliances, strained interactions and ideological growing pains that elites of the post-revolutionary decades put t… [more below]
- Author: Cheney, Lynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1101980052
- Language: English
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By: Sandys, Jonathan
God & Churchill: How the Great Leader’s Sense of Divine Destiny Changed His Troubled World and Offers Hope for Ours
$16.99PaperbackRead moreWhen Winston Churchill was a boy of sixteen, he already had a vision for his purpose in life. “This country will be subjected somehow to a tremendous invasion . . . I shall be in command of the defenc… [more below]
- Author: Sandys, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1496419839
- Language: English
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By: Ellis, Joseph J.
Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams
$18.95PaperbackRead moreJohn Adams was unique among the nation’s founders in leaving a record of his most intimate thoughts and feelings. Instinctively candid and politically incisive, Adams offers the clearest view of the a
- Author: Ellis, Joseph J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 132403615X
- Language: English
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By: Morris, Edmund
Colonel Roosevelt
$25.00PaperbackRead moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK – “Colonel Roosevelt is compelling reading, and [Edmund] Morris is a brilliant biographer who practices his art at the highest level. . . . A … [more below]
- Series: Theodore Roosevelt #3
- Author: Morris, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: October 18 2011
- ISBN10: 0375757074
- Language: English
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Riding with Reagan: From the White House to the Ranch
$17.95PaperbackAdd to cartPersonal moments with an American legend . . .
It is an image etched in the minds of a generation: Ronald Reagan perched atop his horse, riding through the dusty trails and canyons of his California r- Author: Barletta, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 31 2017
- ISBN10: 0806538635
- Language: English
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Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time
$66.58HardcoverRead moreA major new biography of the iconic Austrian empress that challenges the many myths about her life and rule
Maria Theresa (1717-1780) was once the most powerful woman in Europe. At the age of twenty-t- Author: Stollberg-Rilinger, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1104
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0691179069
- Language: English
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Crusade in Europe: A Personal Account of World War II
$22.00PaperbackRead moreA classic of World War II literature, an incredibly revealing work that provides a near comprehensive account of the war and brings to life the legendary general and eventual president of the United S… [more below]
- Author: Eisenhower, Dwight D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0593314859
- Language: English
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By: Baier, Bret
Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire
$21.99PaperbackAdd to cart“An instant classic, if not the finest book to date on Ronald Reagan.” — Jay Winik
President Reagan’s dramatic battle to win the Cold War is revealed as never before by the #1 bestselling author and a
- Series: Three Days
- Author: Baier, Bret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 0062748432
- Language: English
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On Nixon’s Madness: An Emotional History
$29.95HardcoverRead moreWas Richard Nixon actually a madman, or did he just play one?
When Richard Nixon battled for the presidency in 1968, he did so with the knowledge that, should he win, he would face the looming question
- Author: Jacobson, Zachary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1421445530
- Language: English
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First Among Men: George Washington and the Myth of American Masculinity
$32.00HardcoverRead moreDispelling common myths about the first US president and revealing the real George Washington.
Winner of the George Washington Prize by George Washington’s Mount Vernon
George Washington–hero of the Fr
- Author: Valsania, Maurizio
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 142144447X
- Language: English
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By: Jackson, Julian
de Gaulle
$26.95PaperbackRead moreWinner of the Duff Cooper Prize
In this definitive biography of the mythic general
Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize
A New Yorker, Financial Times, Spectator, Times, and Telegraph Book of the Year- Author: Jackson, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 0674241452
- Language: English
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By: Downing, Taylor
1942: Winston Churchill and Britain’s Darkest Hour
$29.95HardcoverRead moreA revelatory new work of popular history focused on the year 1942, as the fate of Britain–and Winston Churchill’s leadership–hangs in the balance.
Eighty years ago, Britain stood at the brink of def- Author: Downing, Taylor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362320
- Language: English
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By: Brands, H. W.
The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln and the Struggle for American Freedom
$17.95PaperbackRead moreFrom the acclaimed historian and bestselling author: a page-turning account of the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln–two men moved to radically different acts t… [more below]
- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0525563458
- Language: English
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By: Algeo, Matthew
Harry Truman’s Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip
$17.99PaperbackRead moreOn June 19, 1953, Harry Truman got up early, packed the trunk of his Chrysler New Yorker, and did something no other former president has done before or since: he hit the road. No Secret Service prote
- Author: Algeo, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1569767076
- Language: English
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By: White, Ronald C.
American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
$25.00PaperbackAdd to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the author of A. Lincoln, a major new biography of one of America’s greatest generals–and most misunderstood presidents
Winner of the William Henry Seward Award for E- Author: White, Ronald C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: June 06 2017
- ISBN10: 0812981251
- Language: English
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By: Whyte, Kenneth
Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times
$24.00PaperbackAdd to cart“An exemplary biography–exhaustively researched, fair-minded and easy to read. It can nestle on the same shelf as David McCullough’s Truman, a high compliment indeed.” —The Wall Street Journal
The de… [more below]- Author: Whyte, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 030774387X
- Language: English





