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Cover of Oswald's Game
by Jean Davison
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...
Cover of Bernard Baruch: Lone Wolf Of Wall Street
by Daniel Alef
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...
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Eight Weeks in Washington, 1861

Abraham Lincoln and the Hazards of Transition

by Richard J. Tofel
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...
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John Kennedy

A Political Profile

by James MacGregor Burns
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...
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Fraternity

A Journey in Search of Five Presidents

by Bob Greene
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...
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American Moonshot

John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race

by Douglas Brinkley
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...
Cover of When General Grant Expelled the Jews
by Jonathan D. Sarna
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...
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James Buchanan

The American Presidents Series: The 15th President, 1857-1861

by Jean H. Baker
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...
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Franklin Pierce

The American Presidents Series: The 14th President, 1853-1857

by Michael F. Holt
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...
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Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents

Strange Stories and Shocking Trivia from Inside the White House

by Cormac O'Brien
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...
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Murdering McKinley

The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America

by Eric Rauchway
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...
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Lincoln Unmasked

What You're Not Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe

by Thomas J. Dilorenzo
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...
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A World Made New

Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

by Mary Ann Glendon
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...
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All the Best, George Bush

My Life in Letters and Other Writings

by George H.W. Bush
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...
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