16 best-selling politics books like Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life by Robert Dallek

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Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life

By: Robert Dallek

4.13

Format: 704 pages, Hardcover

A one-volume biography of Roosevelt by the #1 New York Times bestselling biographer of JFK, focusin…

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1. The Pastures of Heaven

By: John Steinbeck

4.08

Format: 207 pages, Paperback

Each of these delightful interconnected tales is devoted to a family living in a fertile valley on … read more

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  • the united states of america
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2. Herbert Hoover: A Life

By: Glen Jeansonne

4.39

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of one of the United States' most controversial Presidents--Herbert Hoover… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • us presidents
  • nonfiction
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3. 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
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
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4. Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)

By: Robert A. Caro

4.36

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon B. Johnson, cont… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • us presidents
  • nonfiction
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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
  • politics
  • 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)

6. The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #4)

By: Robert A. Caro

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON… read more

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7. 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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8. 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
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • 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

9. The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan

By: Rick Perlstein

3.55

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Nixonland: a dazzling portrait of America on the verge of a nervous … read more

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10. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

By: Robert A. Caro

3.25

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman pr… read more

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11. Peril

By: Bob Woodward

4.09

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

The book covers the end of the Trump presidency and the early months of the Biden presidency. Th… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
"Graham said, "I can get an affidavit tomorrow saying the world is flat."

-Bob Woodward, Peril

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12. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

By: Steve Coll

4.44

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

By: Katja Hoyer

4.23

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Some of the “songs"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

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14. The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World

By: A.J. Baime

4.55

Format: 461 pages, Kindle Edition

The dramatic, pulse-pounding story of Harry Truman’s first four months in office, when this unlikel… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • world war ii
  • us presidents
  • nonfiction
"After a few minutes Truman went back inside the White House, so he could call his mother and personally deliver the news: World War II was over. ("That was Harry," ninety-two-year-old Mamma Truman sa…"

-A.J. Baime, The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World

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15. 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
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
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16. Cuba Libre!: Che, Fidel, and the Improbable Revolution That Changed World History

By: Tony Perrottet

4.30

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Historian and travel writer Tony Perrottet chronicles the events of the Cuban Revolution and the fi… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. The Trials of Harry S. Truman: The Extraordinary Presidency of an Ordinary Man, 1945-1953

By: Jeffrey Frank

4.02

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year Jeffrey Frank, author of the bestselling Ike and Dick, returns … read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • world war ii
  • us presidents
  • nonfiction
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18. Losing the Long Game: The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East

By: Philip H. Gordon

3.87

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

One of Foreign Affairs' Best of Books of 2021 and "Books For The Century"! "Book of the Week" on Fa… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life

By: Robert Dallek

4.13

Format: 704 pages, Hardcover

A one-volume biography of Roosevelt by the #1 New York Times bestselling biographer of JFK, focusin… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • the united states of america
  • politics
  • presidents
  • world war ii
  • us presidents
  • nonfiction
  • leadership
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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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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

16 best-selling history books like Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life by Robert Dallek

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Herbert Hoover: A Life

Glen Jeansonne

4.39

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Truman

David McCullough

3.31

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Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)

Robert A. Caro

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt)

Edmund Morris

4.10

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When McKinsey Comes to Town

Walt Bogdanich

3.80

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2054

Elliot Ackerman

3.46

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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

Rashid Khalidi

4.50

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The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis

George Stephanopoulos

4.45

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