Presidents - United States
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Andrew Johnson: The American Presidents Series: The 17th President, 1865-1869
$31.99 Add to cartA Pulitzer Prize-winning historian recounts the tale of the unwanted president who ran afoul of Congress over Reconstruction and was nearly removed from office
Andrew Johnson never expected to be pre- Series: American Presidents (Times)
- Author: Gordon-Reed, Annette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 18 2011
- ISBN10: 0805069488
- Language: English
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A Black Man in the White House: Barack Obama and the Triggering of America’s Racial-Aversion Crisis
$16.00 Add to cartIn this book Cornell Belcher, award-winning pollster who twice served on President Barack Obama’s presidential election team, presents stunning new research that illuminates just how deep and jagged t
- Author: Belcher, Cornell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: April 12 2019
- ISBN10: 162134360X
- Language: English
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Warren G. Harding: The American Presidents Series: The 29th President, 1921-1923
$33.99 Add to cartPresident Nixon’s former counsel illuminates another presidency marked by scandal
Warren G. Harding may be best known as America’s worst president. Scandals plagued him: the Teapot Dome affair, corrup- Series: American Presidents
- Author: Dean, John W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 07 2004
- ISBN10: 0805069569
- Language: English
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Wilson
$24.00 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author, “a brilliant biography”* of the 28th president of the United States.
One hundred years after his inauguration, Woodrow Wilson still
*Doris Kearns Goodwin- Author: Berg, A. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: September 02 2014
- ISBN10: 0425270068
- Language: English
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Eisenhower in War and Peace
$29.00 Add to cartNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
“Magisterial.”–The New York Times
The Christian Science Monitor – St. Louis Post-Dispatch
In this extraordinary volume, Jean Edward Smith presents a portr- Author: Smith, Jean Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0812982886
- Language: English
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A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent
$23.00 Add to cartPresident James K. Polk, often overlooked yet ever-consequential, comes to life in this “compelling, perceptive portrait” (The Wall Street Journal) biography of the 11th President of the United States… [more below]
- Series: Simon & Schuster America Collection
- Author: Merry, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 02 2010
- ISBN10: 074329744X
- Language: English
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Richard Nixon: The Life
$24.00 Read moreFrom a prize-winning biographer comes the defining portrait of a man who led America in a time of turmoil and left us a darker age. We live today, John A. Farrell shows, in a world Richard Nixon made.… [more below]
- Author: Farrell, John A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0345804961
- Language: English
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Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
$28.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A brilliant evocation of one of the greatest presidents in American history by the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War
“It- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: September 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0307277941
- Language: English
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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
$38.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography of a larger-than-life president who defied norms, divided a nation, and changed Washington forever
Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are- Author: Meacham, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 11 2008
- ISBN10: 1400063256
- Language: English
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Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion
$20.99 Add to cartFrom Thomas Jefferson’s birth in 1743 to the California Gold Rush in 1849, America’s westward expansion comes to life in the hands of a writer fascinated by the way individual lives link up, illuminat… [more below]
- Author: Morgan, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 21 2012
- ISBN10: 1616201894
- Language: English
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The Man in the Arena: Selected Writings of Theodore Roosevelt: A Reader
$26.99 Add to cartThe first compilation of selections from the major works of Teddy Roosevelt since the resurgence in his popularity due to the major award-winning/bestselling biographies by Edmond Morris and H. W. Bra
- Author: Roosevelt, Theodore, IV
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 07 2004
- ISBN10: 0765306719
- Language: English
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Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man
$35.00 Add to cartFrom one of America’s most distinguished historians comes this classic analysis of Richard Nixon. By considering some of the president’s opinions, Wills comes to the controversial conclusion that Nixo
- Author: Wills, Garry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 14 2002
- ISBN10: 0618134328
- Language: English
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FDR
$26.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – “A model presidential biography… Now, at last, we have a biography that is right for the man” – Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World
One of today’s premier biograph- Author: Smith, Jean Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: May 13 2008
- ISBN10: 0812970497
- Language: English
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Thomas Jefferson: Author of America
$18.99 Add to cart“A balanced, readable portrait. A refreshing perspective.” —New York Times Book Review
With intelligence, insight, eloquence, and wit, bestselling author Christopher Hitchens gives us an artful portra
- Series: Eminent Lives
- Author: Hitchens, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 05 2009
- ISBN10: 0060837063
- Language: English
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James K. Polk: The American Presidents Series: The 11th President, 1845-1849
$32.99 Add to cartThe story of a pivotal president who watched over our westward expansion and solidified the dream of Jacksonian democracy
James K. Polk was a shrewd and decisive commander in chief, the youngest presi- Series: American Presidents
- Author: Seigenthaler, John, Sr.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 04 2004
- ISBN10: 0805069429
- Language: English
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Absolute Power
$30.00 Add to cartWhen burglar Luther Whitney breaks into a Virginia mansion, he witnesses a brutal crime involving the president — a man who believes he can get away with anything — and now, Luther may be the only o… [more below]
- Author: Baldacci, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 04 2005
- ISBN10: 0446519960
- Language: English
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Andrew Johnson: A Biography
$29.99 Add to cartPolitically shrewd but fatally unable to adapt to new political realities, Andrew Johnson presided, disastrously, over the tumultuous first years of Reconstruction. In this provocative account, Hans T… [more below]
- Author: Trefousse, Hans Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0393317420
- Language: English
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Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President
$20.00 Read more“An illuminating account of how Franklin D. Roosevelt’s struggles with polio steeled him for the great struggles of the Depression and of World War II.”–Jon Meacham
“A valuable book for anyone who wa- Author: Darman, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0812978781
- Language: English
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The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President
$30.99 Add to cartA spirited and poignant family love story, revealing how an icon of rugged American masculinity was profoundly shaped by the women in his life, especially his mother, sisters, and wives.
Theodore Roo- Author: O’Keefe, Edward F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1982145684
- Language: English
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Character Matters: And Other Life Lessons from George H. W. Bush
$30.00 Add to cartFormer Chief of Staff to President George H.W. Bush and New York Times bestselling author of The Man I Knew, Jean Becker shares touching and pivotal life lessons from a leader that left a mark on peop… [more below]
- Author: Becker, Jean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1538758571
- Language: English
