16 must-read nonfiction books like The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation by Brenda Wineapple

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The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation

By: Brenda Wineapple

4.07

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

America's first presidential impeachment: A prize-winning author tells the story of the efforts by …

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1. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

By: Edmund Morris

4.23

Format: 816 pages, Paperback

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time Described by … read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
"Any black or red man who could win admission to “the fellowship of the doers"

-Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

"He plunged at once into the somewhat rodent-like life of a professional historian."

-Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

"Wall Street billionaires are predicting that Roosevelt-style railroad rate regulation will sooner or later bring about financial catastrophe. [ca. 1906]"

-Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

"[T]he one plain duty of every man is to face the future as he faces the present, regardless of what it may have in store for him, turning toward the light as he sees the light, to play his part manfu…"

-Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

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2. Martin Van Buren

By: Ted Widmer , Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

3.89

Format: 310 pages,

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
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3. The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur

By: Scott S. Greenberger

3.42

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When President James Garfield was shot, no one in the United States was more dismayed than his Vice… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
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  • politics
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4. The Analects

By: Confucius , D.C. Lau

3.20

Format: 168 pages,

This lively new translation with clear explanatory notes by one of the foremost scholars of classic… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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5. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin , Suzanne Toren

4.28

Format: 916 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Lincoln PrizeAcclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
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  • historical
  • politics
  • presidents
  • civil war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school."

-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

"And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing."

-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

"(from John Hay's diary) “The President never appeared to better advantage in the world,"

-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

"I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause."

-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

6. Andrew Johnson (The American Presidents, #17)

By: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. , Sean Wilentz , Annette Gordon-Reed

3.47

Format: 1 pages, Hardcover

A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian recounts the tale of the unwanted president who ran afoul of Con… read more

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7. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

By: Candice Millard

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject po… read more

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8. Rutherford B. Hayes (The American Presidents, #19)

By: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. , Hans L. Trefousse

0.00

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

A leader of the Reconstruction era, whose contested election eerily parallels the election debacle … read more

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9. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Doris Kearns Goodwin, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of Team of Rivals, captures the Progr… read more

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10. President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier

By: C.W. Goodyear

4.30

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

An “ambitious, thorough, supremely researched” ( The Washington Post ) biography of the extraordina… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
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  • presidents
  • civil war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland

By: Troy Senik

4.16

Format: 384 pages, ebook

“A thoroughly engaging and enjoyable” (National Review) biography of Grover Cleveland—the honest, p… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House by Jared Cohen

12. Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House

By: Jared Cohen

4.27

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author of Accidental Presidents explores what happens after the most pow… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle

By: Jon Meacham

4.46

Format: 676 pages, Hardcover

The life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln, exploring why and how Lincoln confronted secession… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • presidents
  • civil war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876 by Bret Baier

14. To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876

By: Bret Baier

4.40

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times Bestseller Fox News Channel’s Chief Political Anchor illuminates the heroic life … read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • presidents
  • civil war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Watergate: A New History

By: Garrett M. Graff

4.49

Format: 832 pages, Hardcover

From Garrett​ Graff, comes the first definitive narrative history of Watergate, exploring the full … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • historical
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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future

By: Franklin Foer

3.87

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Franklin Foer tells the definitive insider story of the first two years of the Biden presidency, wi… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
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  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution

By: Eric Foner

4.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, an authoritative story of the constitutional changes tha… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • civil war
  • law
  • nonfiction
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18. The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation

By: Brenda Wineapple

4.07

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

America's first presidential impeachment: A prize-winning author tells the story of the efforts by … read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • presidents
  • civil war
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment by Allen C. Guelzo

19. Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment

By: Allen C. Guelzo

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An intimate study of Abraham Lincoln’s powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the C… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
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  • historical
  • politics
  • presidents
  • civil war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants by H.W. Brands

20. Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants

By: H.W. Brands

4.13

Format: None pages, Audio CD

From New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how, in nineteen… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
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  • historical
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. President Andrew Johnson of Greeneville, Tennessee

By: Robert Orr

3.38

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

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10 Top audiobook books like The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation by Brenda Wineapple

Transform Your Habits

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Doris Kearns Goodwin , Suzanne Toren

4.28

Transform Your Habits

President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier

C.W. Goodyear

4.30

Transform Your Habits

A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland

Troy Senik

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House

Jared Cohen

4.27

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16 Top history books like The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

Transform Your Habits

Washington: A Life

Ron Chernow

4.16

Transform Your Habits

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

Edmund Morris

4.23

Transform Your Habits

The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century

Scott Miller

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin , None

3.86

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