15 best-selling history books like FDR: The First Hundred Days by Anthony J. Badger

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FDR: The First Hundred Days

By: Anthony J. Badger

3.33

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The Hundred Days, Franklin Roosevelt’s first fifteen weeks in office, have become the stuff of lege…

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1. Mornings on Horseback

By: David McCullough

4.09

Format: 445 pages, Paperback

Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • us presidents
  • nonfiction
"I feel that as much as I enjoy loafing, there is something higher for which to live."

-David McCullough, Mornings on Horseback

"A man who will steal for me will steal from me." Theodore Roosevelt, dismissing on the spot one of his best cowhands who was about to claim for his boss an unmarked animal."

-David McCullough, Mornings on Horseback

"To his own children he was at once the ultimate voice of authority and, when time allowed, their most exuberant companion. He never fired their imaginations or made them laugh as their mother could, …"

-David McCullough, Mornings on Horseback

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2. Killing Trail (Timber Creek K-9 Mystery, #1)

By: Margaret Mizushima

4.03

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

When a young girl is found dead in the mountains outside Timber Creek, life-long resident Officer M… read more

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"Standing, she gestured toward the ground in front of him and gave the command specifically used for evidence detection: "Seek." She expected Robo to put his nose down and start working a grid. They'd…"

-Margaret Mizushima, Killing Trail (Timber Creek K-9 Mystery, #1)

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3. A History of Eastern Europe

By: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

4.24

Format: 13 pages, Audio CD

Eastern Europe has long been thought of as the "Other Europe", a region rife with political upheava… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

By: Steve Martin

3.88

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

In the midseventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concer… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"I did stand-up comedy for eighteen years."

-Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

"...teaching is, after all, a form of show business."

-Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

"How many people have never raised their hand before?"

-Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

"Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent."

-Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

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5. Roberts Ridge: A Story of Courage and Sacrifice on Takur Ghar Mountain, Afghanistan

By: Malcolm MacPherson

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

Afghanistan, March 2002. In the early morning darkness on a frigid mountaintop, a U.S. soldier is s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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6. Caesar's Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar's Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome

By: Stephen Dando-Collins , None

2.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

A unique and splendidly researched story, following the trials and triumphs of Julius Caesar's Legi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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7. 9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America: And Four Who Tried to Save Her

By: Brion T. McClanahan

3.62

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Of the forty-four presidents who have led the United States, nine made mistakes that permanently sc… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
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  • politics
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  • nonfiction
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8. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

By: Alfred Lansing

4.44

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, on… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man."

-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

"Whatever his mood—whether it was gay and breezy, or dark with rage—he had one pervading characteristic: he was purposeful."

-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

"[...] "Who the hell are you?" he said at last. The man in the center stepped forward. "My name is Shackleton" he replied in a quiet voice."

-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

"There once was a mouse who lived in a tavern. One night the mouse found a leaky barrel of beer, and he drank all he could hold. When the mouse had finished, he sat up, twirled his whiskers, and looke…"

-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

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9. Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot

By: Bill O'Reilly , Martin Dugard

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A riveting historical narrative of the shocking events surrounding the assassination of John F. Ken… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of CIA Rogues and the Killing of the Kennedys: How and Why Us Agents Conspired to Assassinate JFK and RFK by Patrick Nolan

10. CIA Rogues and the Killing of the Kennedys: How and Why Us Agents Conspired to Assassinate JFK and RFK

By: Patrick Nolan

3.50

Format: 0 pages, Hardcover

The US Central Intelligence Agency is no stranger to conspiracy and allegations of corruption. Acro… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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11. Caesar: Life of a Colossus

By: Adrian Goldsworthy

4.22

Format: 583 pages, Hardcover

Tracing the extraordinary trajectory of the great Roman emperor’s life, Goldsworthy covers not only… read more

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  • history
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  • nonfiction
"Caesar was a serial seducer of married women."

-Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar: Life of a Colossus

"Pompey contented himself with repulsing the attack and made no attempt to assault Caesar's line. This was widely felt to have been a mistake... and Caesar declared that the enemy 'would have won toda…"

-Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar: Life of a Colossus

12. Stalking Ground (Timber Creek K-9 Mystery #2)

By: Margaret Mizushima

3.92

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When Deputy Ken Brody's sweetheart goes missing in the mountains outside Timber Creek, Mattie Cobb … read more

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13. The Great Raid: Rescuing the Doomed Ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor

By: William B. Breuer

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Before General Douglas MacArthur could fulfill his stirring promise of "I shall return" and re-take… read more

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14. India and Pakistan

By: Gregory Kozlowski

3.94

Format: 322 pages, Audio CD

As one of the world's most ancient civilizations, India presents a rich mosaic of political, religi… read more

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15. Conquest of the Americas

By: Marshall C. Eakin

4.50

Format: 144 pages, Audio CD

Why was Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Americas in 1492 arguably the most important event in … read more

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16. The Oregon Trail

By: Francis Parkman

3.57

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

Keen observations and a graphic style characterize the author's remarkable record of a vanishing fr… read more

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17. AC/DC: The Savage Tale of the First Standards War

By: Tom McNichol

3.83

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"AC/DC" tells the little-known story of how Thomas Edison wrongly bet in the fierce war between sup… read more

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18. Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe

By: Michael S. Neiberg

3.45

Format: None pages, Hardcover

After Germany's defeat in World War II, Europe lay in tatters. Millions of refugees were dispersed … read more

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19. The Dispatcher

By: John Scalzi , Zachary Quinto

4.57

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Listening Length: 2 hours and 18 minutes One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible t… read more

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20. Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

By: T.E. Lawrence

3.23

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

In his classic book, T.E. Lawrence--forever known as Lawrence of Arabia--recounts his role in the o… read more

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21. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

By: Mark Twain

2.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP A nineteenth-century American travels back… read more

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22. Infamy: Pearl Harbor and its Aftermath

By: John Toland

3.46

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The controversial, best-selling investigation of the events surrounding Pearl Harbor acclaimed as "… read more

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23. Without a Trace

By: Danielle Steel

3.87

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Charles Vincent seems to have it all—a beautiful wife, two successful children, and a well-paying c… read more

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24. Patton at the Battle of the Bulge: How the General's Tanks Turned the Tide at Bastogne

By: Leo Barron

3.84

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

December 1944. For the besieged American defenders of Bastogne, time was running out.... Hitler’s f… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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25. The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution

By: John Oller

4.15

Format: 563 pages, Kindle Edition

A popular, comprehensive biography of Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox," covering his famous engageme… read more

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26. Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

By: Anderson Cooper

3.77

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting histor… read more

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Cover of Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty by Jeff Pearlman

27. Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty

By: Jeff Pearlman

4.28

Format: 426 pages, Hardcover

The story of the Lakers dynasty from 1996 through 2004, when Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal combi… read more

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  • history
  • biography
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28. The Last Blue

By: Isla Morley

4.33

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

In this luminous narrative inspired by the fascinating real case of “the Blue People of Kentucky,” … read more

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29. White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing

By: Gail Lukasik

3.70

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

White Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Passing is the story of Gail Lukasik’s mother’… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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30. The Cuckoo's Cry

By: Caroline Overington

3.50

Format: 5 pages, Audible Audio

On the eve of the global lockdown, Don Barlow opens the door of his old beachside cottage to find a… read more

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31. FDR: The First Hundred Days

By: Anthony J. Badger

3.33

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The Hundred Days, Franklin Roosevelt’s first fifteen weeks in office, have become the stuff of lege… read more

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