Americas category: 34066 books
by Theodore H. White
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
A Harper Perennial Political Classic, The Making of the President 1960 is the groundbreaking national bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the 1960 presidential campaign and the election of John F. Kennedy. With this narrative history of American politics in action, Theodore White revolutionized...
Destiny and Power
The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this brilliant biography, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jon Meacham chronicles the life of George Herbert Walker Bush.
**NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book...
Millard Fillmore
The American Presidents Series: The 13th President, 1850-1853
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
The 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 uproar over slavery, and it was not clear if a compromise could be found. In the midst of the...
Kennedy and King
The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
**A New York Times Editors' Choice Pick
"Kennedy and King is an unqualified masterpiece of historical narrative.... A landmark achievement."---Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of Rosa Parks**
Kennedy and King traces the emergence of two of the twentieth century's...
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
With a new foreword: The New York Times–bestselling biography of President Lyndon Johnson from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Team of Rivals.
Featuring a 2018 foreword by the Pulitzer Prize–winning political historian that celebrates a reappraisal of Lyndon Johnson’s legacy five...
Abraham Lincoln
The Man Behind the Myths
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
“There is no better introduction to current thinking about Lincoln and his place in history.” —Newsday
“Here, in these pages, Lincoln is still alive.” —Los Angeles Times
From Stephen B. Oates comes a riveting companion to his seminal Lincoln biography With Malice Toward None....
The Brother
The Untold Story of the Rosenberg Case
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
“A fresh and fast-paced study of one of the most important crimes of the twentieth century” (The Washington Post), The Brother now discloses new information revealed since the original publication in 2003—including an admission by his sons that Julius Rosenberg was indeed a Soviet spy and a...
Destiny of the Republic
A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, and a renowned and admired reformist congressman. Nominated for president against his will, he engaged in a fierce battle with the corrupt...
First Families
The Impact of the White House on Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
What is it like to be America's First Family? In this wonderfully engaging book, Bonnie Angelo, Time correspondent and acclaimed author of First Mothers, probes two hundred years of American history to tell the story of real life within the White House walls—how presidents, their wives, children,...
by Rodolfo Walsh, Ricardo Piglia
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Argentina has just lost its charismatic president Juán Perón in a military coup, and terror reigns across the land. June 1956: eighteen people are reported dead in a failed Peronist uprising. December 1956: sometime journalist, crime fiction writer, studiedly unpoliticized chess aficionado Rodolfo...
Before the Storm
Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Acclaimed historian Rick Perlstein chronicles the rise of the conservative movement in the liberal 1960s. At the heart of the story is Barry Goldwater, the renegade Republican from Arizona who loathed federal government, despised liberals, and mocked peaceful coexistence” with the USSR. Perlstein's...
The Presidents Club
Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
The Presidents Club, established at Dwight Eisenhower’s inauguration by Harry Truman and Herbert Hoover, is a complicated place: its members are bound forever by the experience of the Oval Office and yet are eternal rivals for history’s favor. Among their secrets: How Jack Kennedy tried to blame...
Jack Kennedy
Elusive Hero
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
The critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling biography of John F. Kennedy, by Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s Hardball.
“What was he like?”
Jack Kennedy said the reason people read biography is to answer that basic question. What was he like, this man whose own wife called...
by David McCullough
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2001
In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot -- "the colossus of independence," as Thomas Jefferson called him -- who spared nothing in his zeal for...