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by Jon Meacham
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The New York Times Book Review • The Washington Post • Entertainment Weekly • The Seattle Times • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • Bloomberg Businessweek
In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Lion and Franklin...
The Bully Pulpit
Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
One of the Best Books of the Year as chosen by The New York Times*, The Washington Post, The Economist, Time, USA TODAY, Christian Science Monitor,* and more. “A tale so gripping that one questions the need for fiction when real life is so plump with drama and intrigue” (Associated Press).
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Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates
The Forgotten War That Changed American History
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
“Another blockbuster! Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates reads like an edge-of-your-seat, page-turning thriller. You will love this book and also wonder why so few people know this story. No one captures the danger, intrigue, and drama of the American Revolution and its aftermath like Brian...
by David McCullough
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2003
The Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America’s beloved and distinguished historian.
The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest...
The River of Doubt
Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth.
The River of Doubt—it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes...
Malcolm X
A Life of Reinvention
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History, the definitive biography of Malcolm X.
Hailed as "a masterpiece" (San Francisco Chronicle), the late Manning Marable's acclaimed biography of Malcolm X finally does justice to one of the most influential and controversial figures of twentieth-century...
Thomas Jefferson
Author of America
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In this unique biography of Thomas Jefferson, leading journalist and social critic Christopher Hitchens offers a startlingly new and provocative interpretation of our Founding Father. Situating Jefferson within the context of America's evolution and tracing his legacy over the past two hundred years,...
First Family
Abigail and John Adams
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, best-selling author of Founding Brothers and His Excellency brings America’s preeminent first couple to life in a moving and illuminating narrative that sweeps through the American Revolution and the republic’s tenuous early years.
John and Abigail Adams left an indelible...
by Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
“[A] monumental dual biography . . . a distinguished work, combining deep research, a pleasing narrative style and an abundance of fresh insights, a rare combination.”—The Dallas Morning News
The third and fourth presidents have long been considered proper gentlemen, with Thomas Jefferson’s...
Rawhide Down
The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011
A Richmond Times Dispatch Top Book for 2011
A minute-by-minute account of the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary
On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was just seventy days into...
No Ordinary Time
Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
No Ordinary Time is a monumental work, a brilliantly conceived chronicle of one of the most vibrant and revolutionary periods in the history of the United States. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking number...
by Pete Souza
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Relive the extraordinary Presidency of Barack Obama through White House photographer Pete Souza's behind-the-scenes images and stories in this #1 New York Times bestseller--with a foreword from the President himself.
During Barack Obama's two terms, Pete Souza was with the President during...
by Henry Ketcham
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Abraham Lincoln (18091865) is one of the most famous Americans in history and one of the countrys most revered presidents. Schoolchildren can recite the life story of Lincoln, the Westerner who educated himself and became a self made man, rising from lawyer to leader of the new Republican Party before...
Mornings on Horseback
The Story of an Extraordinary Faimly, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
The National Book Award–winning biography that tells the story of how young Teddy Roosevelt transformed himself from a sickly boy into the vigorous man who would become a war hero and ultimately president of the United States, told by master historian David McCullough.
Mornings on Horseback...