Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President
By: Jonathan Darman
4.38
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
This revealing biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt shows how one of the most consequential leaders i…
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1. Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School
By: Philip Delves Broughton
3.03
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
As One L did for Harvard Law School, Ahead of the Curvedoes for Harvard Business School: providing … read more
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2. Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization
By: Richard Miles
3.00
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
An epic history of a doomed civilization and a lost empire. The devastating struggle to the death … read more
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3. Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America
By: Cody Keenan
4.56
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “At a time when the meaning of America is up for grabs, Cody Keenan’s n… read more
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4. American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
By: Adam Hochschild
4.21
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling historian Adam Hochschild, a fast-paced, revelatory … read more
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5. The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
By: Stacy Schiff
3.74
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, “Samuel Adams was the man… read more
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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
10. King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.67
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more
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11. Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II
By: Evan Thomas
4.41
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A riveting, immersive account of the agonizing decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan--a cru… read more
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12. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
By: Keith O'Brien
4.43
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s mo… read more
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13. The Old Lion
By: Jeff Shaara
4.24
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara, The Old Lion a brilliant novel tracing the life… read more
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14. Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt
By: Charlotte Gray
4.19
Format: 420 pages, Kindle Edition
A captivating dual biography of two famous women whose sons would change the course of the 20th cen… read more
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15. The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962
By: Max Hastings
4.40
Format: 538 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tens… read more
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16. 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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17. On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
By: Ronald C. White Jr.
4.45
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic an… read more
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18. A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
By: Timothy Egan
4.12
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
Moved by his mother's death and his Irish Catholic family's complicated history with the church, Ti… read more
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"Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible."-Timothy Egan, A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
"I don't expect a miracle cure, but I have found that wishing for one is the most humbling form of prayer."-Timothy Egan, A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
"Poverty is the ultimate freedom. You can't rob someone who has no possessions. You can't insult a person without pride."-Timothy Egan, A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
"The audacity. Not only was she (Joan of Arc) a peasant girl, unschooled and clueless in the ways of power, class and the military strategy, weaponry, the mechanics of a siege, but was determined to g…"-Timothy Egan, A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
19. The Murder Wheel (A Spector Locked-Room Mystery, #2)
By: Tom Mead
3.57
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In London, 1938, young and idealistic lawyer Edmund Ibbs is trying to find any shred of evidence th… read more
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20. 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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21. An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford
By: Richard Norton Smith
4.46
Format: 992 pages, Hardcover
From the preeminent presidential scholar and acclaimed biographer of historical figures including G… read more
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22. The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter
By: Kai Bird
4.35
Format: 772 pages, Hardcover
An essential re-evaluation of the complex triumphs and tragedies of Jimmy Carter's presidential leg… read more
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"...Carter is sometimes perceived as a failure simply because he refused to make us feel good about the country. He insisted on telling us what was wrong and what it would take to make things better. …"-Kai Bird, The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter
"Watching the podium dance that night from the convention floor was Paul Corbin, a longtime Kennedy family retainer. Corbin had been working for the Kennedys ever since he first encountered Bobby Kenn…"-Kai Bird, The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter
"...Ironically, three decades later President Barack Obama introduced a universal health insurance bill modeled closely after the Carter bill. Mondale´s former aide Richard Moe wrote that Obamacare ¨b…"-Kai Bird, The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter
"After it was all over, the Carter people were stunned by Kennedy´s conduct. Why? Why would the Kennedy crowd persist in defeat, knowing that their displays of rancor would only further weaken a Democ…"-Kai Bird, The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter
23. Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
By: Mark Harmon
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account.… read more
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24. Dinner with the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House
By: Alex Prud'Homme
4.04
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
A wonderfully entertaining, often surprising narrative history of presidential food: from Washingto… read more
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25. Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences
By: Joan Biskupic
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Editor's Choice "Biskupic, an accomplished and well-sourced journalist, knows the co… read more
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26. My Mama, Cass: A Memoir
By: Owen Elliot-Kugell
3.96
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
A long-awaited, myth-busting, and deeply affecting memoir by the daughter of legendary rock star “M… read more
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27. Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President
By: Jonathan Darman
4.38
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
This revealing biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt shows how one of the most consequential leaders i… read more
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- biography memoir
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28. Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics
By: H.W. Brands
4.01
Format: 452 pages, Kindle Edition
From bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands, a revelatory history of the sho… read more
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29. The Lincoln Miracle: Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History
By: Edward Achorn
4.51
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The vivid, behind-the-scenes story of perhaps the most consequential political moment in American h… read more
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30. The First Lady of World War II: Eleanor Roosevelt's Daring Journey to the Frontlines and Back
By: Shannon McKenna Schmidt
4.24
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The first book to tell the full story of Eleanor Roosevelt's unprecedented and courageous trip to t… read more
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31. Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty
By: Andrew Meier
4.42
Format: 1072 pages, Hardcover
A monumental portrait of four generations of the Morgenthau family–a dynasty of power brokers whose… read more
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