25 Best nonfiction books like The Jazz Age President: Defending Warren G. Harding by Ryan S. Walters

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The Jazz Age President: Defending Warren G. Harding

By: Ryan S. Walters

3.61

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

"Presidents are ranked wrong. In The Jazz Age Defending Warren G. Harding, Ryan Walters mounts a c…

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1. An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963

By: Robert Dallek

3.99

Format: 849 pages, Paperback

Drawing on previously unavailable material and never-before-opened archives, An Unfinished Life is … read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • presidents
  • us presidents
  • nonfiction
"She was a little removed,"

-Robert Dallek, An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963

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2. 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
  • american
  • biography
  • history
  • presidents
  • us 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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3. Coolidge

By: Amity Shlaes

3.76

Format: 536 pages, Hardcover

Calvin Coolidge, who served as president from 1923 to 1929, never rated highly in polls. The shy Ve… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • presidents
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  • nonfiction
"It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones. -Calvin Coolidge"

-Amity Shlaes, Coolidge

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4. Woodrow Wilson: A Biography

By: John Milton Cooper Jr.

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The first major biography of America's twenty-eighth president in nearly two decades, from one of A… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • presidents
  • us presidents
  • nonfiction
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5. Truman

By: David McCullough

3.31

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
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6. Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream: The Most Revealing Portrait of a President and Presidential Power Ever Written

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

3.75

Format: 272 pages,

Doris Kearns Goodwin's classic life of Lyndon Johnson, who presided over the Great Society, the Vie… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • presidents
  • us presidents
  • nonfiction
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7. A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan

By: Michael Kazin

4.15

Format: 399 pages, Paperback

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE WASHINGTON POST, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, LOS ANGELES TIMES, ST. LOU… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. Hoover: The Life and Times of Herbert Hoover

By: Kenneth Whyte

3.21

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, Herbert … read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • presidents
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  • nonfiction
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9. 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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  • biography
  • history
  • presidents
  • us presidents
  • nonfiction
"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)

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10. 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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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • presidents
  • us presidents
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur by Scott S. Greenberger

11. 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
  • history
  • presidents
  • us presidents
  • nonfiction
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12. Coolidge: An American Enigma

By: Robert Sobel

4.19

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In the first full-scale biography of Coolidge in a generation, Robert Sobel shatters the caricature… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • presidents
  • us presidents
  • nonfiction
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13. Eisenhower in War and Peace

By: Jean Edward Smith

4.06

Format: 976 pages, Hardcover

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Christian Science Monitor • St. Louis Post-DispatchIn… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • presidents
  • us presidents
  • nonfiction
"Jealousy knows no logic, nor does it respect reciprocity."

-Jean Edward Smith, Eisenhower in War and Peace

"The loneliness of command had made Eisenhower emotionally self-sufficient."

-Jean Edward Smith, Eisenhower in War and Peace

"Patton would have said a warmer goodbye to his horse, The author writes on Eisenhower's cold dismissal of his wartime lover."

-Jean Edward Smith, Eisenhower in War and Peace

"Eisenhower on Patton: "Fundamentally, he is so avid for recognition as a great commander that he won't with ruthlessly suppress any habit that will jeopardize it."

-Jean Edward Smith, Eisenhower in War and Peace

14. FDR

By: Jean Edward Smith

4.08

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

One of today's premier biographers has written a modern, comprehensive, indeed ultimate book on the… read more

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15. Theodore Rex

By: Edmund Morris

4.18

Format: 772 pages, Paperback

Theodore Roosevelt and his two-term presidency (1901-9) deserve a king-size, seize-the-man biograph… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • biography
  • history
  • presidents
  • us presidents
  • nonfiction
"Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital."

-Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex

"Yet there was no doubt that Theodore Roosevelt was peculiarly qualified to be President of all the people. Few, if any Americans could match the breadth of his intellect and the strength of his chara…"

-Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex

16. Wilson

By: A. Scott Berg

5.00

Format: 172 pages,

From Pulitzer Prize-winning, #1 New York Times-bestselling author A. Scott Berg comes the definitiv… read more

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17. Battle Cry of Freedom

By: James M. McPherson

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, B… read more

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18. 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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19. Richard Nixon: The Life

By: John A. Farrell

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Brilliantly researched, authoritatively crafted by a prize-winning biographer, and lively on the pa… read more

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20. 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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21. 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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  • biography
  • history
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  • nonfiction
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22. 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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  • biography
  • history
  • presidents
  • us presidents
  • nonfiction
Cover of Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush by Jon Meacham

23. Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush

By: Jon Meacham

4.12

Format: 794 pages, Kindle Edition

From Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham comes a sweeping ye… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • presidents
  • us presidents
  • nonfiction
"Where Goldwater-ites saw the world in black and white, Rockefeller noted shades of gray."

-Jon Meacham, Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush

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24. 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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  • american
  • biography
  • history
  • presidents
  • us presidents
  • nonfiction
Cover of His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life by Jonathan Alter

25. His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life

By: Jonathan Alter

4.34

Format: 800 pages, Hardcover

From one of America’s most respected journalists and modern historians comes the highly acclaimed, … read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • presidents
  • us presidents
  • nonfiction
Cover of Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events by Robert J. Shiller

26. Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events

By: Robert J. Shiller

3.63

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller, a groundbr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of President McKinley: Architect of the American Century by Robert W. Merry

27. President McKinley: Architect of the American Century

By: Robert W. Merry

3.97

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

In this great American story, acclaimed historian Robert Merry resurrects the presidential reputati… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • biography
  • history
  • presidents
  • us presidents
  • nonfiction
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28. James Monroe: A Life

By: Tim McGrath

4.20

Format: 738 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary life of James Monroe: soldier, senator, diplomat, and the last Founding Father to… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • presidents
  • us presidents
  • nonfiction
Cover of William Howard Taft (The American Presidents #27) by Jeffrey Rosen

29. William Howard Taft (The American Presidents #27)

By: Jeffrey Rosen

3.73

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The only man to serve as president and chief justice, who approached every decision in constitution… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • presidents
  • us presidents
  • nonfiction
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30. The Jazz Age President: Defending Warren G. Harding

By: Ryan S. Walters

3.61

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

"Presidents are ranked wrong. In The Jazz Age Defending Warren G. Harding, Ryan Walters mounts a c… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • biography
  • history
  • presidents
  • us presidents
  • nonfiction
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31. The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge: Authorized, Expanded, and Annotated Edition

By: Calvin Coolidge

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

"It was my hope to produce a book that would not only have some historical interest, but would be u… read more

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  • presidents
  • us presidents
  • nonfiction

25 Best history books like The Jazz Age President: Defending Warren G. Harding by Ryan S. Walters

Transform Your Habits

An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963

Robert Dallek

3.99

Transform Your Habits

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

Edmund Morris

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Coolidge

Amity Shlaes

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Woodrow Wilson: A Biography

John Milton Cooper Jr.

4.05

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19 Top history books like Coolidge: An American Enigma by Robert Sobel

Transform Your Habits

An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963

Robert Dallek

3.99

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

Woodrow Wilson: A Biography

John Milton Cooper Jr.

4.05

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