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Summary of No Ordinary Time
by Doris Kearns Goodwin | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Summary of No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin | Includes Analysis Preview No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin is a unique blend of history and biography, exploring the leadership and personal relationships of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) and...
All the Presidents' Gardens
Madison's Cabbages to Kennedy's Roses—How the White House Grounds Have Grown with America
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
A New York Times Bestseller and AHS Book Award winner
The 18-acres surrounding the White House have been an unwitting witness to history—kings and queens have dined there, bills and treaties have been signed, and presidents have landed and retreated. Throughout it all, the grounds have remained...
Bill Clinton: An American Journey
Great Expectations
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2003
Bill Clinton, forty-second president of the United States, is the quintessential baby boomer: on the one hand blessed with a near-genius IQ, on the other, beset by character flaws that made his presidency a veritable soap opera of high ideals, distressing incompetence, model financial stewardship,...
Reagan Rising
The Decisive Years, 1976-1980
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
With a Foreword by Jon Meacham
New York Times bestselling biographer Craig Shirley charts Ronald Reagan’s astonishing rise from the ashes of his lost 1976 presidential bid to overwhelming victory in 1980. American conservatism—and the nation itself—would never be the same.
In 1976,...
The Hamilton Collection
The Wisdom and Writings of the Founding Father
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The subject of a New York Times best-selling biography and a Pulitzer-Prize winning musical, interest in Alexander Hamilton is at an all-time high. This carefully curated collection of Hamilton's writings gives the reader an intimate glimpse into the mind of our most misunderstood founding father.
The...
by Christopher B. Emery
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
From January 1986 until March 1994, Chris Emery was part of one of the most unique services in the U.S. government—an usher in the White House.
For more than 200 years, a small office has operated on the State Floor of the White House Executive Residence. Known as the Usher's Office, whose...
The Road South
Personal Stories of the Freedom Riders
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Revisits the inspiring and heroic stories of the Freedom Riders, through their own words.
In May 1961, despite multiple Supreme Court rulings, segregation remained alive and well within the system of interstate travel. All across the American South, interstate buses as well as their travel facilities...
The Bulloch Belles
Three First Ladies, a Spy, a President's Mother and Other Women of a 19th Century Georgia Family
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
The Bulloch women of Roswell, Georgia, were not typical antebellum Southern belles. Most were well educated world travelers skilled at navigating social circles far outside the insular aristocracy of the rural South. Their lives were filled with intrigue, espionage, scandal, adversity and perseverance....
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A Political Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
**Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and NPR
“We come to see in FDR the magisterial, central figure in the greatest and richest political tapestry of our nation’s entire history” —Nigel Hamilton, Boston Globe
“Meticulously researched and authoritative” —Douglas...
by Eric Burns
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Theodore Roosevelt is one of the most fascinating and written-about presidents in American history—yet the most poignant tale about this larger-than-life man has never been told.
More than a century has passed since Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, but he still continues to fascinate....
Sandinista
Carlos Fonseca and the Nicaraguan Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2001
“A must-read for anyone interested in Nicaragua—or in the overall issue of social change.”—Margaret Randall, author of SANDINO'S DAUGHTERS and SANDINO'S DAUGHTERS REVISITED
Sandinista is the first English-language biography of Carlos Fonseca Amador, the legendary leader of the Sandinista...
by Jeremi Suri
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
What made Henry Kissinger the kind of diplomat he was? What experiences and influences shaped his worldview and provided the framework for his approach to international relations? Suri offers a thought-provoking, interpretive study of one of the most influential and controversial political figures of the twentieth century.
by Richard Wightman Fox
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
“[A]n astonishingly interesting interpretation. . . . Fox is wonderfully shrewd and often dazzling.”—Jill Lepore, New York Times Book Review
In a stunning feat of scholarship, insight, and engaging prose, Lincoln's Body explores how a president ungainly in body and downright "ugly"...
Presidents Fact Book Revised and Updated!
The Achievements, Campaigns, Events, Triumphs, and Legacies of Every President from George Washington to the Current One
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
*An All-New Edition!
The Presidents Fact Book* is a complete compendium of all things presidential and a sweeping survey of American history through the biographical lens of every president from George Washington through Donald Trump.
Organized chronologically by president, each entry...