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by Jean Davison
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
While much was written in the wake of Lee Harvey Oswald’s assassination of President John F. Kennedy, few journalists stopped to ask who Oswald really was, and what was driving him. In Oswald’s Game, Davison slices to the core of the man, revealing Oswald’s most formative moments, beginning...
by Daniel Alef
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2008
Biogrphical profile of one of America's most intriguing financiers, a man who made a fortune on Wall Street as a speculator. As to his chosen path, he said: "I am a speculator; and I make no apologies for it. The word comes from the Latin speculari -- to observe. I observe." Dispensing advice from...
Eight Weeks in Washington, 1861
Abraham Lincoln and the Hazards of Transition
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
A close look at the first eight weeks after Abraham Lincoln took office on March 4, 1861, reveals a time when the fate of the nation's capital, certainly of the Lincoln Administration, and perhaps of the nation itself, seemed very much in doubt.
This is a story of a president uncertain and...
John Kennedy
A Political Profile
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
The authorized biography of John F. Kennedy offers a fresh and candid look at what shaped the man America came to love and admire, just as he was on the cusp of the presidency
Historian, political scientist, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author James MacGregor Burns wrote Roosevelt: The Lion...
Fraternity
A Journey in Search of Five Presidents
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2004
“What if you set off on a vacation trip in search of history—and your destination was the men who had been president?”
Asking himself that tantalizing question, bestselling author and award-winning journalist Bob Greene embarked on a long journey across the breadth of the nation, hoping...
American Moonshot
John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Instant New York Times Bestseller
As the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy’s inspiring challenge, and America’s race to...
by Jonathan D. Sarna
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Finalist, 2012 National Jewish Book Awards
A riveting account of General Ulysses S. Grant’s decision, in the middle of the Civil War, to order the expulsion of all Jews from the territory under his command, and the reverberations of that decision on Grant’s political career, on the nascent...
James Buchanan
The American Presidents Series: The 15th President, 1857-1861
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2004
A provocative reconsideration of a presidency on the brink of Civil War
Almost no president was as well trained and well prepared for the office as James Buchanan. He had served in the Pennsylvania state legislature, the U.S. House, and the U.S. Senate; he was Secretary of State and was even...
Franklin Pierce
The American Presidents Series: The 14th President, 1853-1857
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
The genial but troubled New Englander whose single-minded partisan loyalties inflamed the nation's simmering battle over slavery
Charming and handsome, Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire was drafted to break the deadlock of the 1852 Democratic convention. Though he seized the White House in a...
Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents
Strange Stories and Shocking Trivia from Inside the White House
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Includes all-new chapter about the 45th POTUS, Donald J. Trump.
This updated and redesigned edition of Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents features outrageous and uncensored profiles of our commanders in chief—complete with hundreds of little-known, politically incorrect, and downright...
Murdering McKinley
The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2007
When President William McKinley was murdered at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901, Americans were bereaved and frightened. Rumor ran rampant: A wild-eyed foreign anarchist with an unpronounceable name had killed the commander-in-chief. Eric Rauchway's brilliant...
Lincoln Unmasked
What You're Not Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
What if you were told that the revered leader Abraham Lincoln was actually a political tyrant who stifled his opponents by suppressing their civil rights? What if you learned that the man so affectionately referred to as the “Great Emancipator” supported white supremacy and pledged not to interfere...
A World Made New
Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2001
A World Made New tells the dramatic story of the struggle to build, out of the trauma and wreckage of World War II, a document that would ensure it would never happen again. There was an almost religious intensity to the project, championed by Eleanor Roosevelt under the aegis of the newly formed...
All the Best, George Bush
My Life in Letters and Other Writings
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Former President George H.W. Bush, revealed through his letters and writings from 1941 to 2010, is “worth its weight in gold…a valuable update of the life of an honorable American leader” (The Washington Post).
“Who knew that beneath George Bush’s buttoned-up propriety pulsed the...