6 must-read historical books like Eleanor by David Michaelis

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Eleanor

By: David Michaelis

4.09

Format: 720 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller Prizewinning bestselling author David Michaelis presents a “stunning” ( …

If you liked the historical plot in Eleanor by David Michaelis , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. George F. Kennan: An American Life

By: John Lewis Gaddis

4.26

Format: 331 pages,

The full scope of George Kennan's long life and vast influence is revealed by one of today's most i… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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2. Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time

By: Joseph Frank

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
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3. Eleanor and Hick

By: Susan Quinn

2.43

Format: None pages,

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

4. Living The Best Day Ever

By: Hendri Coetzee

4.24

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt) by Edmund Morris

5. Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt)

By: Edmund Morris

4.10

Format: 766 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK •  “Colonel Roosevelt is compelling readi… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"If he was less motivated by compassion than anger at what he saw as the arrogance of capital,he chafed,nonetheless,to regulate it."

-Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt)

"Ensconced, he (Roosevelt) lacked some of the neuroses of progressives-economic envy and race hatred especially.His radicalism was a matter of energy rather than urgency."

-Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt)

"Norway...looked to Roosevelt "as funny a kingdom as was ever imagined outside of opera bouffe....It is much as if Vermont should offhand try the experiment of having a king."

-Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt)

"He has,in short,reached his peak as a hunter,exuberantly altered from the pale,overweight statesman of ten months ago. Africa's way of reducing every problem of existence to dire alternatives-shoot o…"

-Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt)

6. No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

3.49

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Pulitzer for History, No Ordinary Timeis a chronicle of one of the most vibrant & rev… read more

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7. Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah

By: Laurie Ann Thompson , Sean Qualls

4.75

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

This picture book biography tells the true story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah, who bicycled across Ghan… read more

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8. The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin

By: Gordon S. Wood

3.98

Format: 240 pages,

From the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republic and winner of both the Pulitze… read more

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9. Narrative of Sojourner Truth

By: Sojourner Truth , None

4.35

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

One of the most famous and admired African-American women in U.S. history, Sojourner Truth sang, pr… read more

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10. First Family: Abigail and John Adams

By: Joseph J. Ellis

4.06

Format: 32 pages,

The Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author of Founding Brothersand His Excellency brings Ameri… read more

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11. The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

3.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

Eleanor Roosevelt's life (1884-1962) was full of experience & courageous action. Niece of Theodore … read more

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12. FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

By: Steven Lomazow

4.33

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

THE HIDDEN ILLNESSES THAT SHAPED FDR’S LIFE AND CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY Conventional wisdo… read more

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"Researching this book has been a voyage of discovery and it is a privilege to present an unexpurgated medical biography of the most consequential American of the twentieth century."

-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

"Another new and groundbreaking story in FDR Unmasked is about his highly consequential friendship with Vincent Astor, the closest with any man in his adult life. To truly understand the “real"

-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

"FDR Unmasked chronicles Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s life from a physician’s perspective. It tells a harrowing story of heroic achievement by a great leader determined to impart his vision of freedom …"

-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

"FDR Unmasked is first to present convincing evidence of Roosevelt’s battle with prostate cancer, underpinned by FBI memoranda and reliable firsthand information from multiple physicians - even a shoc…"

-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

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13. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more

Similar categories in Doris Kearns Goodwin's An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s book and David Michaelis's Eleanor

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson

14. 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

Similar categories in Erik Larson's The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War book and David Michaelis's Eleanor

  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of Eleanor by David Michaelis

15. Eleanor

By: David Michaelis

4.09

Format: 720 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller Prizewinning bestselling author David Michaelis presents a “stunning” ( … read more

Similar categories in David Michaelis's Eleanor book and David Michaelis's Eleanor

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
Cover of Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight by Julia Sweig

16. Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight

By: Julia Sweig

3.96

Format: 533 pages, Hardcover

A magisterial portrait of Lady Bird Johnson, and a major reevaluation of the profound yet underappr… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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17. Darkness Falling

By: Patrick MacDonald

4.04

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

It is 1845. In Ireland the potato crop has failed ushering in a six year period of famine and disea… read more

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Cover of On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service by Anthony Fauci

18. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

By: Anthony Fauci

4.59

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Fauci's On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service book and David Michaelis's Eleanor

  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Finding of Miss Fairfield (Aprons & Veils, #1) by Grace Hitchcock

19. The Finding of Miss Fairfield (Aprons & Veils, #1)

By: Grace Hitchcock

4.30

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

When an engagement of convenience becomes anything but convenient . . . Forced into a betrothal … read more

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  • historical
Cover of The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America by Elizabeth Dias

20. The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America

By: Elizabeth Dias

4.53

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

From two top New York Times journalists, the breathtaking untold story of the plan to overturn Roe … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution by Edward        Williams

21. Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

By: Edward Williams

4.37

Format: 425 pages, Kindle Edition

Backpacking around Australia in the year 2000, the author unwittingly found himself the target of o… read more

Similar categories in Edward Williams's Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution book and David Michaelis's Eleanor

"Do you want to live, Sander?"

-Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

"Scopolamine never asks for permission"

-Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

"was it even my own mind making the decisions?"

-Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

"Had I left some children behind somewhere in the world?"

-Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

7 Best audiobook books like Eleanor by David Michaelis

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Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt)

Edmund Morris

4.10

Transform Your Habits

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Eleanor

David Michaelis

4.09

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6 Best audiobook books like Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt) by Edmund Morris

Transform Your Habits

Washington: A Life

Ron Chernow

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Mornings on Horseback

David McCullough

4.09

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

Coolidge

Amity Shlaes

3.76

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