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And there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle
Meacham, Jon
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . Pulitzer Prize-winning biographerJon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how-and why-he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America. "Meacham has given us...
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No ordinary time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : the home front in World War II
Goodwin, Doris Kearns.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic about the relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, and how it shaped the nation while steering it through the Great Depression and the outset of World War II. With an extraordinary collection of...
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The Bidens : inside the first family's fifty-year rise to power
Schreckinger, Ben
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The long alliance : the imperfect union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama
Debenedetti, Gabriel
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New York Magazine national correspondent Gabriel Debenedetti reveals an inside look at the historically close, complicated, occasionally co-dependent, and at-times uncertain relationship between Joe Biden and Barack Obama. Delving far deeper than the simplistic "bromance...
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Franklin and Lucy : President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd, and the other remarkable women in his life
Persico, Joseph E.
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Don't know much about the American presidents : everything you need to know about the most powerful office on Earth and the men who have occupied it
Davis, Kenneth C.
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Which president broke the law to prevent enslaved people from being freed? Who said, "When the president does it,that means it's not illegal"? Why does America have a president? From the heated debates among the framers of the Constitution in 1787 over an "elected king," to the...
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Eisenhower : a life
Johnson, Paul
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When Dwight D. Eisenhower won the 1952 election with the largest number of votes in history, he become the president of the United States at the height of its postwar glory, when it was the most powerful county in the world. In this superb, succinct new biography, celebrated historian Paul...
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A promised land
Obama, Barack
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A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making--from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE * NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK...
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The man who saved the union : Ulysses Grant in war and peace
Brands, H. W.
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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. ...
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To rescue the Constitution : George Washington and the fragile American experiment
Baier, Bret
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Fox News Channel's Chief Political Anchor reveals George Washington's indispensable-yet overlooked-contributions to America's founding "To Rescue The Constitution is a masterful exploration of the electrifying struggle to unite a young United States." --Jay Winik ...
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A promised land
Obama, Barack
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A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making--from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE * NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK...
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The price of greatness : Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the creation of American oligarchy
Cost, Jay
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An incisive account of the tumultuous relationship between Alexander Hamilton and James Madison and of the origins of our wealthy yet highly unequal nation In the history of American politics there are few stories as enigmatic as that of Alexander Hamilton and James Madison's...
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Washington : a life
Chernow, Ron.
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A New York Times Bestselling Author. A National Book Award-winning Author. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life of Washington celebrated biographer Ron Chernow s richly nuanced portrait carries the reader through his troubled boyhood his precocious feats in the French and...
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An unfinished life : John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
Dallek, Robert.
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An Unfinished Life is the first major, single-volume life of John F. Kennedy to be written by a historian in nearly four decades. Drawing upon previously unavailable material and never-before-opened archives to tell Kennedy's story.We learn for the first time just how sick Kennedy was, what...
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Inside Camp David : the private world of the presidential retreat
Giorgione, Michael
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The black man's president : Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, & the pursuit of racial equality
Burlingame, Michael
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Frederick Douglass called the martyred president "emphatically the black man's president" as well as "the first who rose above the prejudice of his times and country." This narrative history of Lincoln's personal interchange with Black people over the course his career reveals a side of...
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Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln
Goodwin, Doris Kearns.
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Winner of the Lincoln Prize Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Abraham Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become...
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And there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle
Meacham, Jon
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how--and why--he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America. "Meacham has...
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A promised land
Obama, Barack
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A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making--from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE * NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK...
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Washington a life
Chernow, Ron.
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Unabridged, 30 CDs, 39 hours Read by TBA From National Book Award winner Ron Chernow, a landmark biography of George Washington. .
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