Americas category: 34066 books
The Path to Power
The Years of Lyndon Johnson I
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
The Years of Lyndon Johnson is the political biography of our time. No president—no era of American politics—has been so intensively and sharply examined at a time when so many prime witnesses to hitherto untold or misinterpreted facets of a life, a career, and a period of history could still...
Franklin and Winston
An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2003
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of history’s towering leaders
Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of “the Greatest Generation.” In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores...
by Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
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The Return of George Washington
Uniting the States, 1783-1789
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"An elegantly written account of leadership at the most pivotal moment in American history" (Philadelphia Inquirer): Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson reveals how George Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead...
by James MacGregor Burns
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
The “engrossing” Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning history of FDR’s final years (Barbara Tuchman).
The second entry in James Macgregor Burns’s definitive two-volume biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt begins with the president’s precedent-breaking third term election...
Little Pink House
A True Story of Defiance and Courage
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2009
SOON TO BE A MOTION PICTURE STARRING CATHERINE KEENER
"Catherine Keener nails the combination of anger, grace, and attitude that made Susette Kelo a nationally known crusader." -- Deadline Hollywood
Suzette Kelo was just trying to rebuild her life when she purchased a falling...
Devil's Bargain
Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Nationalist Uprising
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
The instant #1 New York Times bestseller.
From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump—the key to understanding the rise of the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces...
Duel with the Devil
The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
The remarkable true story of a turn-of-the-19th century murder and the trial that ensued—a showdown in which iconic political rivals Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr joined forces to make sure justice was served—from bestselling author of the Edgar finalist, Murder of the Century.
In the...
American Lion
Andrew Jackson in the White House
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
The 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 at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern...
Franklin and Eleanor
An Extraordinary Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt's marriage is one of the most celebrated and scrutinized partnerships in presidential history. It raised eyebrows in their lifetimes and has only become more controversial since their deaths. From FDR's lifelong romance with Lucy Mercer to Eleanor's purported...
Profiles in Courage
Deluxe Modern Classic
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
The Pulitzer Prize winning classic by President John F. Kennedy, with an introduction by Caroline Kennedy and a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy.
Written in 1955 by the then junior senator from the state of Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage serves as a clarion call to every...
Fair Game
My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2007
On July 6, 2003, four months after the United States invaded Iraq, former ambassador Joseph Wilson's now historic op-ed, "What I Didn't Find in Africa," appeared in The New York Times. A week later, conservative pundit Robert Novak revealed in his newspaper column that Ambassador Wilson's...
Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans
The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Another history pageturner from the authors of the #1 bestsellers George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates.
The War of 1812 saw America threatened on every side. Encouraged by the British, Indian tribes attacked settlers in the West, while the Royal Navy terrorized...
His Excellency
George Washington
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2004
National 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 of the Revolutionary era. Training his lens on a figure who sometimes seems as remote as...