The Long Pursuit: Abraham Lincoln's Thirty-Year Struggle with Stephen Douglas for the Heart and Soul of America
By: Roy Morris Jr.
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this compelling narrative, renowned historian Roy Morris, Jr., expertly offers a new angle on tw…
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1. Napoleon: A Life
By: Andrew Roberts
4.23
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of… read more
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"I am very happy to see the enemy wish to avoid our coming to him. – Napoleon"-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
"I have beaten the Russian and Austrian army commanded by the two emperors. I am a little tired."-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
"His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives."-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
2. Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
By: Garry Wills
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In a masterly work, Garry Wills shows how Lincoln reached back to the Declaration of Independence t… read more
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3. The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows
By: Gabor S. Boritt
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The words Abraham Lincoln spoke at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg … read more
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- american civil war
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4. The Wright Brothers
By: David McCullough
2.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story ab… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
5. His Excellency: George Washington
By: Joseph J. Ellis
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
National Bestseller To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the e… read more
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- history
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6. Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
By: James L. Swanson
3.78
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
A fascinating tale of murder, intrigue, and betrayal. A gripping hour-by-hour account told through … read more
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7. Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse
By: James L. Swanson
3.57
Format: 160 pages,
On the morning of April 2, 1865, Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, received a telegram… read more
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8. 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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"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)
9. Berlin 1961
By: Frederick Kempe
4.00
Format: 10 pages,
A fresh, controversial, brilliantly written account of one of the epic dramas of the Cold War-and i… read more
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- history
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10. War as I Knew It
By: George S. Patton Jr.
3.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
The personal and candid account of General Patton's celebrated, relentless crusade across western E… read more
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11. The Final Storm (World War II: 1939-1945, #4)
By: Jeff Shaara
2.00
Format: 161 pages, Hardcover
The Final Storm opens a new front in Jeff Shaara's gripping chronicle of World War II as soldiers, … read more
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12. A. Lincoln
By: Ronald C. White Jr.
4.30
Format: 816 pages, Hardcover
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Washington Post • The Philadelphia Inquirer • The Chr… read more
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13. 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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"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
14. Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
By: James M. McPherson
4.34
Format: 640 pages,
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15. 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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- nonfiction
- history
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16. Teddy and Booker T.: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality
By: Brian Kilmeade
4.22
Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition
The New York Times bestselling author of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and th… read more
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17. The Salt Grows Heavy
By: Cassandra Khaw
3.59
Format: 106 pages, Hardcover
From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more
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"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy
"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy
"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy
"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy
18. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
By: Cal Newport
3.73
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more
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"What are we really doing here?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
19. Gods of Jade and Shadow
By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
3.89
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
The Mayan god of death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this one-of-a-k… read more
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"You did not rescue me,"-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow
"It was beauty you couldn't hold."-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow
"The things you name grow in power."-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow
"Courage is the greatest of virtues,"-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow
20. Dead Silence
By: S.A. Barnes
3.80
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
Titanic meets The Shining in S.A. Barnes’ Dead Silence, a SF horror novel in which a woman and her … read more
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"Silence has a different quality to it when you're the only one left alive. It's thicker. Heavier somehow."-S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence
21. To Rescue the Constitution: George Washington and the Fragile American Experiment
By: Bret Baier
4.40
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
Instant New York Times Bestseller #1 New York Times bestselling author Bret Baier reveals how Geo… read more
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22. 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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23. Taking Berlin: The Bloody Race to Defeat the Third Reich
By: Martin Dugard
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
From Martin Dugard, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Bill O'Reilly's Killing series, comes… read more
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- history
24. Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America
By: Abraham Riesman
3.75
Format: 464 pages, ebook
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Riveting, essential reading.” —Rick Perlstein, author of Reaganl… read more
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25. The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang
By: Tom Clavin
3.67
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
The definitive account of the Dalton Gang and the most brazen bank heist in history, by the multipl… read more
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- history
26. Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
By: Bill O'Reilly
3.67
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
With over 19 million copies in print and a remarkable record of #1 New York Times, Wall Street Jour… read more
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- history
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27. Holy Ghost (Virgil Flowers, #11)
By: John Sandford
4.16
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
Wheatfield, Minnesota - a metropolis of seven hundred souls. The word "moribund" might have been in… read more
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28. War on the Border: Villa, Pershing, the Texas Rangers, and an American Invasion
By: Jeff Guinn
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Jeff Guinn, chronicler of the Southwestern US and of American undesirables (Bonnie and Clyde, Charl… read more
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- history
29. The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom
By: H.W. Brands
4.17
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands, the epic struggle over slavery as embodied … read more
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- american civil war
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30. Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast
By: Joan DeJean
3.60
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The secret history of the rebellious Frenchwomen who were exiled to colonial Louisiana and found po… read more
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- history
31. The Long Pursuit: Abraham Lincoln's Thirty-Year Struggle with Stephen Douglas for the Heart and Soul of America
By: Roy Morris Jr.
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this compelling narrative, renowned historian Roy Morris, Jr., expertly offers a new angle on tw… read more
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