17 must-read biography books like Kennedy and Roosevelt: The Uneasy Alliance by Michael R. Beschloss

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Kennedy and Roosevelt: The Uneasy Alliance

By: Michael R. Beschloss

3.99

Format: 451 pages, Kindle Edition

The revealing story of Franklin Roosevelt, Joe Kennedy, and a political alliance that changed histo…

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1. The Good Rat

By: Jimmy Breslin

3.55

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Of course Pulitzer Prize winner Jimmy Breslin recognized Burton Kaplan right away as the Mafia witn… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy by David Halberstam

2. The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy

By: David Halberstam

0.00

Format: 798 pages,

The Pulitzer prize-winning newsman's analysis of Kennedy's ideological journey toward increasing ra… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government by David Talbot

3. The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

By: David Talbot

4.43

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the mo… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Fifth Assassin (Culper Ring, #2) by Brad Meltzer

4. The Fifth Assassin (Culper Ring, #2)

By: Brad Meltzer

4.29

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

From John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, there have been more than two dozen assassination atte… read more

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5. The President's Shadow (Culper Ring, #3)

By: Brad Meltzer

4.10

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A severed arm, found buried in the White House Rose Garden.A lethal message with terrible consequen… read more

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6. The Supreme Commander: The War Years of General Dwight D. Eisenhower

By: Hugh Ambrose , Stephen E. Ambrose

3.85

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

In North Africa, on the beaches at Normandy, and in the Battle of the Bulge, Dwight David Eisenhowe… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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7. Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies

By: J.B. West

3.83

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at life on Pennsylvania Avenue with America's first families, … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction

8. Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK

By: Gerald Posner

3.87

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

The assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, continues to inspire interest ranging fr… read more

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9. The Drop (Harry Bosch, #17; Harry Bosch Universe, #21)

By: Michael Connelly

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Harry Bosch has been given three years before he must retire from the LAPD, and he wants cases more… read more

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10. Angels Flight (Harry Bosch, #6; Harry Bosch Universe, #7)

By: Michael Connelly

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback

An activist attorney is killed in a cute little L.A. trolley called Angels Flight, far from Harry B… read more

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11. The Closers (Harry Bosch, #11; Harry Bosch Universe, #14)

By: Michael Connelly

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Detective Harry Bosch is back with the LAPD with the sole mission of closing unsolved cases. The mu… read more

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12. The Last Battle

By: Cornelius Ryan

3.50

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

The classic account of the final offensive against Hitler's Third Reich. The Battle for Berlin was … read more

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13. Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?: The Improbable Saga of the New York Mets' First Year

By: Jimmy Breslin , Bill Veeck

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Here, back in print, is Jimmy Breslin's marvelous account of the improbable saga of the New York Me… read more

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14. The Narrows (Harry Bosch, #10; Harry Bosch Universe, #13)

By: Michael Connelly

3.15

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call she's dreaded for years, the one that tells her the … read more

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15. Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill

By: Sonia Purnell

4.54

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A long-overdue tribute to the extraordinary woman behind Winston Churchill By Winston Churchill's o… read more

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16. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

By: Rachel Maddow

4.45

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more

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  • world war ii
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."

-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

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17. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin

18. 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

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
Cover of Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House by Jared Cohen

19. 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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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
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20. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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21. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments

By: Joe Posnanski

4.56

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

A masterful ode to the a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to m… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Wingmen: The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams by Adam    Lazarus

22. The Wingmen: The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams

By: Adam Lazarus

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The untold story of the unique fifty-year friendship between two American John Glenn, the unassail… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Gangsters vs. Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in Wartime America by Michael Benson

23. Gangsters vs. Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in Wartime America

By: Michael Benson

3.97

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

Goodreads Top Nonfiction of 2022 The stunning true story of the rise of Nazism in America in the… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq by Steve Coll

24. 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
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage

25. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

By: Beverly Gage

4.37

Format: 864 pages, Hardcover

A major new biography of J. Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a grou… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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26. The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis

By: George Stephanopoulos

4.45

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
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27. A Very Private School: A Memoir

By: Charles Spencer

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age ei… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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28. Kennedy and Roosevelt: The Uneasy Alliance

By: Michael R. Beschloss

3.99

Format: 451 pages, Kindle Edition

The revealing story of Franklin Roosevelt, Joe Kennedy, and a political alliance that changed histo… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • presidents
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House by H.R. McMaster

29. At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House

By: H.R. McMaster

4.08

Format: 576 pages, Paperback

A revealing account of National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster’s turbulent and consequential thirte… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
Cover of Tom Clancy Shadow State (A Jack Ryan Jr. Novel Book 12) by M.P. Woodward

30. Tom Clancy Shadow State (A Jack Ryan Jr. Novel Book 12)

By: M.P. Woodward

4.57

Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition

Surviving a helicopter crash in the Vietnamese Highlands is only the start of the challenges facing… read more

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Cover of America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War by H.W. Brands

31. America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War

By: H.W. Brands

4.37

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands narrates the fierce debate over Amer… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction

20 Top history books like Kennedy and Roosevelt: The Uneasy Alliance by Michael R. Beschloss

Transform Your Habits

The Good Rat

Jimmy Breslin

3.55

Transform Your Habits

The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy

David Halberstam

0.00

Transform Your Habits

The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

David Talbot

4.43

Transform Your Habits

The Supreme Commander: The War Years of General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Hugh Ambrose , Stephen E. Ambrose

3.85

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29 must-read thriller books like The President's Shadow (Culper Ring, #3) by Brad Meltzer

Transform Your Habits

Cash Landing (Jack Swyteck, #0)

James Grippando

3.54

Transform Your Habits

The President's Shadow (Culper Ring, #3)

Brad Meltzer

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Killer Instinct

Joseph Finder

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Without Warning (J. B. Collins, #3)

Joel C. Rosenberg

3.15

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