Presidents & Heads of State
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A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent
$23.00 Add to cartPresident James K. Polk, often overlooked yet ever-consequential, comes to life in this “compelling, perceptive portrait” (The Wall Street Journal) biography of the 11th President of the United States… [more below]
- Series: Simon & Schuster America Collection
- Author: Merry, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 02 2010
- ISBN10: 074329744X
- Language: English
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Queen Victoria: A Personal History
$24.95 Add to cartIn this surprising new life of Victoria, Christopher Hibbert, master of the telling anecdote and peerless biographer of England’s great leaders, paints a fresh and intimate portrait of the woman who s… [more below]
- Author: Hibbert, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: May 10 2007
- ISBN10: 0306810859
- Language: English
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Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln
$20.00 Add to cartA brilliantly conceived and vividly drawn story–Washington, D.C. on the eve of Abraham Lincoln’s historic second inaugural address as the lens through which to understand all the complexities of the
- Author: Achorn, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0802148751
- 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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The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur
$19.99 Add to cartWhen President James Garfield was shot in 1881, nobody expected Vice President Chester A. Arthur to become a strong and effective president, a courageous anti-corruption reformer, and an early civil r… [more below]
- Author: Greenberger, Scott S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 0306922703
- Language: English
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Lafayette
$41.99 Add to cartAcclaim for Lafayette
“I found Mr. Unger’s book exceptionally well done. It’s an admirable account of the marquis’s two revolutions-one might even say his two lives–the French and the American. It al- Author: Unger, Harlow Giles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0471394327
- Language: English
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Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump
$19.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Reilly pokes more holes in Trump’s claims than there are sand traps on all of his courses combined. It is by turns amusing and alarming.”— The New Yorker “Golf is the spine… [more below]
- Author: Reilly, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 031652803X
- Language: English
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Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
$28.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A brilliant evocation of one of the greatest presidents in American history by the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War
“It- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: September 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0307277941
- Language: English
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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
$38.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography of a larger-than-life president who defied norms, divided a nation, and changed Washington forever
Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are- Author: Meacham, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 11 2008
- ISBN10: 1400063256
- Language: English
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Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America’s Destiny
$17.00 Add to cartNow in paperback with a new afterword…. Another pageturning New York Times bestseller by the authors of George Washington’s Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates.
The War of 1812 s- Author: Kilmeade, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 23 2018
- ISBN10: 0735213240
- Language: English
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The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
$30.00 Add to cartThe “captivating” (The New York Times), definitive biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, detailing the extraordinary rise and political brilliance of the most powerful–and elusive–woman in t… [more below]
- Author: Marton, Kati
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1501192620
- Language: English
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Countdown to Dallas: The Incredible Coincidences, Routines, and Blind Luck That Brought John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald Together on N
$30.00 Read moreJohn F. Kennedy’s fascination with death–particularly his own–and Lee Harvey Oswald’s love of violence and desire for fame made November 22, 1963 practically inevitable.
With new details from the ve- Author: Brandus, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 1637581947
- 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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Lincoln and the Fight for Peace
$18.99 Add to cartA groundbreaking and “affecting and powerful” (The New York Times Book Review) history of Abraham Lincoln’s plan to secure a just and lasting peace after the Civil War–a vision that inspired future p… [more below]
- Author: Avlon, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1982108134
- Language: English
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Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man
$35.00 Add to cartFrom one of America’s most distinguished historians comes this classic analysis of Richard Nixon. By considering some of the president’s opinions, Wills comes to the controversial conclusion that Nixo
- Author: Wills, Garry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 14 2002
- ISBN10: 0618134328
- Language: English
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The Most Interesting American: Personal Encounters, Quotations, and First-Hand Impressions of Theodore Roosevelt
$19.99 Read moreTheodore Roosevelt largely is known today by stereotypes and his many accomplishments–but the full and fascinating essence of the man is fading. In this book, TR charges back!
Historian Rick Marschal- Author: Marschall, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1637586329
- Language: English
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FDR
$26.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – “A model presidential biography… Now, at last, we have a biography that is right for the man” – Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World
One of today’s premier biograph- Author: Smith, Jean Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: May 13 2008
- ISBN10: 0812970497
- Language: English
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The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
$18.95 Add to cartSelected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln’s lifelong engagement with the nation’s critical issue: American s… [more below]
- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 26 2011
- ISBN10: 039334066X
- Language: English
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Thomas Jefferson: Author of America
$18.99 Add to cart“A balanced, readable portrait. A refreshing perspective.” —New York Times Book Review
With intelligence, insight, eloquence, and wit, bestselling author Christopher Hitchens gives us an artful portra
- Series: Eminent Lives
- Author: Hitchens, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 05 2009
- ISBN10: 0060837063
- Language: English
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Kennedy Wives: Triumph and Tragedy in America’s Most Public Family
$16.95 Add to cartThe Kennedys endure as American icons because of the mix between power and vulnerability that so many of them embodied. Our fascination and connection to them comes most strongly through the wives, wh… [more below]
- Author: Hunt, Amber
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1493009605
- Language: English
