The First Populist: A Life of Andrew Jackson
By: David S. Brown
3.90
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
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2. Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America
By: Walter R. Borneman
3.00
Format: None pages,
In Polk, Walter R. Borneman gives us the first complete and authoritative biography of a president … read more
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3. American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
By: Jon Meacham
3.44
Format: 336 pages,
Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this r… read more
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4. Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times
By: H.W. Brands
3.19
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
National Bestseller In this, the first major single-volume biography of Andrew Jackson in decades,… read more
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5. John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit
By: James Traub
4.67
Format: 127 pages, Hardcover
John Quincy Adams was the last of his kind--a Puritan from the age of the Founders who despised par… read more
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6. William Henry Harrison (The American Presidents, #9)
By: Gail Collins , Sean Wilentz
4.57
Format: 140 pages, Hardcover
The president who served the shortest term--just a single month--but whose victorious election camp… read more
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7. Zachary Taylor
By: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. , Sean Wilentz , John S.D. Eisenhower
3.71
Format: 32 pages,
The rough-hewn general who rose to the nation's highest office, and whose presidency witnessed the … read more
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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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
12. Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
By: Mike Duncan
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes… read more
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13. 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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14. 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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15. Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer
By: Harold Schechter
3.76
Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition
Harold Schechter, Amazon Charts bestselling author of Hell’s Princess, unearths a nearly forgotten … 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. President without a Party: The Life of John Tyler
By: Christopher J. Leahy
4.08
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
Historians and the American public have long viewed President John Tyler as one of the nation’s lea… read more
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18. The First Populist: A Life of Andrew Jackson
By: David S. Brown
3.90
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A timely, “solidly researched [and] gracefully written” ( The Wall Street Journal ) biography of Pr… read more
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19. Transient and Strange: Notes on the Science of Life
By: Nell Greenfieldboyce
3.81
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing debut from the beloved NPR science intimate essays about the intersection of scienc… read more
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20. A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South
By: Peter Cozzens
4.09
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed historian Peter Cozzens, the pivotal struggle between the Creek Indians and an insat… read more
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21. The Jeffersonians: The Visionary Presidencies of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe
By: Kevin R.C. Gutzman
3.72
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A lively and essential chronicle of the only consecutive trio of two-term presidencies of the same … read more
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