Presidents & Heads of State
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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
$35.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War–a simmering crisis
- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 30, 2024
- ISBN10: 0385348746
- Language: English
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The Trials of Harry S. Truman: The Extraordinary Presidency of an Ordinary Man, 1945-1953
$20.99 Add to cartJeffrey Frank, author of the bestselling Ike and Dick, returns with the “beguiling” (The New York Times) first full account of the Truman presidency in nearly thirty years, recounting how a seemingly
- Author: Frank, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: March 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1501102907
- Language: English
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Trump Revealed: The Definitive Biography of the 45th President
$18.00 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller A Philadelphia Inquirer Best Book of the Year A Los Angeles Times Most Important Book of the Year Hailed as “authoritative” and “essential,” and based on the work of two do
- Author: Kranish, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 10, 2017
- ISBN10: 1501156527
- Language: English
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Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare
$38.99 Add to cart“The text sparkles with shrewdly plausible inferences mortared into a compelling narrative . . . [Short] is excellent at coining pithy summations of political motives that ring humanly true.”–The New
- Author: Short, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: January 10 2006
- ISBN10: 0805080066
- Language: English
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The Case for Trump
$18.99 Read moreThis New York Times bestselling Trump biography from a major American intellectual explains how a renegade businessman became one of the most successful — and necessary — presidents of all time.
In- Author: Hanson, Victor Davis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 17, 2020
- ISBN10: 1541673557
- Language: English
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Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America’s Founding Father
$28.00 Add to cartFINALIST FOR THE GEORGE WASHINGTON BOOK PRIZE
The true story of a Founding Father: a new, brash, and unexpected view of the president we thought we knew, from the bestselling author of Astoria.
“Lively,
- Author: Stark, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0062845993
- Language: English
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The Portable Abraham Lincoln
$22.00 Add to cartCelebrate the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth with this new edition of his greatest speeches and writings
Abraham Lincoln endowed the American language with a vigor and moral energy that has- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Lincoln, Abraham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 27 2009
- ISBN10: 0143105647
- Language: English
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Mary Ball Washington: The Untold Story of George Washington’s Mother
$17.99 Add to cartThe Mother of the Father of our Country.
Mary Ball Washington was an unlikely candidate to be the mother of history’s most famous revolutionary. In fact, George Washington’s first fight for independen
- Author: Shirley, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0062456520
- Language: English
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The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy–And Why It Failed
$29.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling authors of The Nazi Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy comes a true, little-known story about the first assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy, right before hi
- Author: Meltzer, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1250790573
- Language: English
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
$42.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD – One of Modern Library‘s 100 best nonfiction books of all time – One of Esquire‘s 50 best biographies of all time
“A towering biography . . . a… [more below]- Author: Morris, Edmund
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: November 23 2010
- ISBN10: 1400069653
- Language: English
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Richard Nixon: The Life
$24.00 Add to cartFrom a prize-winning biographer comes the defining portrait of a man who led America in a time of turmoil and left us a darker age. We live today, John A. Farrell shows, in a world Richard Nixon made.… [more below]
- Author: Farrell, John A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0345804961
- Language: English
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Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America’s Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years
$21.99 Add to cartHow did the deeply flawed George W. Bush ascend to the highest office in the nation, what forces abetted his rise, and-perhaps most important-have those forces really been vanquished by Obama’s electi
- Author: Baker, Russ
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 17 2009
- ISBN10: 1608190064
- Language: English
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Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel
$26.00 Add to cart“Golda Meir–immigrant, Zionist, feminist, and wartime prime minister of Israel–claimed far more than one woman’s share of history. In Lioness, Francine Klagsbrun superbly captures Golda’s courage an… [more below]
- Author: Klagsbrun, Francine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 0805211934
- Language: English
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George Washington and Alexandria: A Founding Friendship
$24.99 Add to cartGeorge Washington and Alexandria recounts and celebrates the life, legacy, and leadership of the city’s hometown hero and the father of the nation.
No other city in America had the impact that Alexand
- Author: Rose, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 146717064X
- Language: English
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A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons
$22.00 Add to cartPaul Jennings was born into slavery on the plantation of James and Dolley Madison in Virginia, later becoming part of the Madison household staff at the White House. Once finally emancipated by Senato
- Author: Taylor, Elizabeth Dowling
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 19 2013
- ISBN10: 0230341985
- Language: English
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General George Washington: A Military Life
$26.00 Add to cart“The most comprehensive and authoritative study of Washington’s military career ever written.”
Based largely on George Washington’s persona
-Joseph J. Ellis, author of His Excellency: George Washington- Author: Lengel, Edward G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0812969502
- Language: English
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A Prelude to Immortality: Winston Churchill’s ‘my Early Life’
$52.50 Add to cartThis is the incredible story of why and how Winston Churchill in his mid-50s decided to write an autobiography designed to reshape his image and to reduce an overwhelming personal debt burden.
This is- Author: Stiles, Gary L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 1917458274
- Language: English
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Lincoln’s Virtues: An Ethical Biography
$22.00 Add to cartWilliam Lee Miller’s ethical biography is a fresh, engaging telling of the story of Lincoln’s rise to power. Through careful scrutiny of Lincoln’s actions, speeches, and writings, and of accounts from… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Civil War Library
- Author: Miller, William Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 04 2003
- ISBN10: 0375701737
- Language: English
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Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith
$39.00 Read moreFrom the bestselling author of Hillbilly Elegy–an intimate account of why Vice President JD Vance strayed from the Christianity of his youth and what led him back to faith.
Communion is a spiritual ex
- Author: Vance, J. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 0063575078
- Language: English
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Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith
$35.00 Read moreFrom the bestselling author of Hillbilly Elegy–an intimate account of why Vice President JD Vance strayed from the Christianity of his youth and what led him back to faith.
Communion is a spiritual ex
- Author: Vance, J. D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 0063575019
- Language: English
