Americas category: 34066 books
Young Washington
How Wilderness and War Forged America's Founding Father
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
A new, brash, and unexpected view of the president we thought we knew, from the bestselling author of Astoria
Two decades before he led America to independence, George Washington was a flailing young soldier serving the British Empire in the vast wilderness of the Ohio Valley. Naïve and self-absorbed,...
Sons of Camelot
The Fate of an American Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
One of Bobby Kennedy's first acts after JFK's assassination was to write a letter to his eldest son, reminding him of the obligations of his name. Bobby sent the letter to eleven-year-old Joe, but the message was meant for all his sons and nephews.
Sons of Camelot is the compelling story of...
Camelot's Court
Inside the Kennedy White House
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Fifty years after John F. Kennedy’s assassination, presidential historian Robert Dallek, whom The New York Times calls “Kennedy’s leading biographer,” delivers a riveting new portrait of this president and his inner circle of advisors—their rivalries, personality clashes, and political battles....
President Reagan
The Triumph of Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2005
Twenty-five years after Ronald Reagan became president, Richard Reeves has written a surprising and revealing portrait of one of the most important leaders of the twentieth century. As he did in his bestselling books President Kennedy: Profile of Power and President Nixon: Alone in the White House,...
by John Williams
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Sam Houston was one of the most extraordinary figures in American history. During his life, he held an astonishing range of positions: governor of two states (Tennessee and Texas), congressman (Tennessee), senator (Texas), and president of the Republic of Texas during its independence. He was an ardent...
The Gatekeeper
Missy LeHand, FDR, and the Untold Story of the Partnership That Defined a Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
The “fine biography” and “compelling personal story” (The Wall Street Journal) of arguably the most influential member of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration, Marguerite “Missy” LeHand, FDR’s de facto chief of staff, who has been misrepresented, mischaracterized, and overlooked...
by I. Bernard Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 1997
General readers, students of American history, and professional historians alike will profit from reading this engaging presentation of an aspect of American history conspicuously absent from the usual textbooks and popular presentations of the political thought of early America.
Thomas Jefferson...
Lincoln at Gettysburg
The Words that Remade America
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
The power of words has rarely been given a more compelling demonstration than in the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln was asked to memorialize the gruesome battle. Instead, he gave the whole nation "a new birth of freedom" in the space of a mere 272 words. His entire life and previous training,...
The Natural
The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2002
Joe Klein, best-selling author of Primary Colors and one of our most brilliant political analysts, now tackles the subject he knows best: Bill Clinton. Astute, even-handed, and keenly intelligent, The Natural is the only book to read if you want to understand exactly what happened–to the military,...
The Man Who Saved the Union
Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
From New York Times bestselling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the White House, holding the country together at two critical turning points in our history.
Ulysses Grant rose from...
Cigars, Whiskey and Winning
Leadership Lessons from General Ulysses S. Grant
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
Long before leadership became identified as the catalyst for corporate success, the Civil War's winning general was showing the world how dynamic leadership is the crucial determinant of victory or defeat.Ulysses S. Grant never sought fame of glory, nor did he try to tie his performance to personal...
by John Marshall, Henry Cabot Lodge, William Roscoe Thayer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The classic five-volume biography by John Marshall, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, plus the two-volume biography by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, plus the one-volume biography by Thayer. According to Wikipedia: "George Washington (February 22, 1732 [O.S. February 11, 1731 December 14, 1799) served...
The Triumph of William McKinley
Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
A fresh look at President William McKinley from New York Times bestselling author and political mastermind Karl Rove—“a rousing tale told by a master storyteller whose love of politics, campaigning, and combat shines through on every page” (Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize–winning author...
JFK's Last Hundred Days
The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
**A Kirkus Best Book of 2013
A revelatory, minute-by-minute account of JFK’s last hundred days that asks what might have been**
Fifty years after his death, President John F. Kennedy’s legend endures. Noted author and historian Thurston Clarke argues that the heart of that legend...