President James Buchanan: A Biography
By: Philip Shriver Klein
3.17
Format: None pages,
The life of James Buchanan is in essence the story of a man who declined to be a dictator. Republic…
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1. Millard Fillmore: Biography of a President
By: Robert J. Rayback
3.69
Format: 470 pages, Hardcover
For some reason hard to understand, the historically minded public has had to wait 85 years since t… read more
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2. Gentleman Boss: The Life of Chester Alan Arthur
By: Katherine E. Speirs , Thomas C. Reeves
3.56
Format: 304 pages,
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3. Franklin Pierce: Young Hickory of the Granite Hills
By: Roy Franklin Nichols
4.57
Format: None pages,
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Similar categories in Peter A. Wallner's Franklin Pierce: Martyr for the Union book and Philip Shriver Klein's President James Buchanan: A Biography
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5. Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America
By: Walter R. Borneman
3.00
Format: None pages,
In Polk, Walter R. Borneman gives us the first complete and authoritative biography of a president … read more
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6. President James Buchanan: A Biography
By: Philip Shriver Klein
3.17
Format: None pages,
The life of James Buchanan is in essence the story of a man who declined to be a dictator. Republic… read more
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7. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin , Suzanne Toren
4.28
Format: 916 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Lincoln PrizeAcclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political… read more
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"An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school."-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
"And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing."-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
"(from John Hay's diary) “The President never appeared to better advantage in the world,"-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
"I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause."-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
8. Lincoln
By: David Herbert Donald
4.19
Format: 714 pages, Paperback
A masterful work by Pulitzer Prize–winning author David Herbert Donald, Lincoln is a stunning portr… read more
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9. 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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10. Martin Van Buren and the American Political System
By: Donald B. Cole
4.01
Format: None pages,
Donald Cole analyzes the political skills that brought Van Buren the nickname Little Magician," des… read more
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11. Andrew Johnson: A Biography
By: Hans L. Trefousse
4.00
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Politically shrewd but fatally unable to adapt to new political realities, Andrew Johnson presided,… read more
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12. Franklin Pierce: New Hampshire's Favorite Son
By: Peter A. Wallner
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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13. Abraham Lincoln: A Life, Volume One
By: Michael Burlingame
4.54
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar … read more
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14. Abraham Lincoln: A Life, Volume Two
By: Michael Burlingame
4.54
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar … read more
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15. Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior and President
By: Ari Hoogenboom
0.00
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
Who was the real Rutherford B. Hayes? Was he a great or inconsequential president? How did his earl… read more
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16. Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy
By: David O. Stewart
3.60
Format: None pages,
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17. Grant
By: Ron Chernow
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefel… read more
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18. Franklin Pierce (The American Presidents, #14)
By: Michael F. Holt , Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. , Sean Wilentz
3.75
Format: 352 pages,
The genial but troubled New Englander whose single-minded partisan loyalties inflamed the nation's … read more
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19. Mr. Jefferson's Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy
By: None
3.44
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
Often remembered as the president who died shortly after taking office, William Henry Harrison rema… read more
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20. Zachary Taylor
By: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. , Sean Wilentz , John S.D. Eisenhower
3.71
Format: 32 pages,
The rough-hewn general who rose to the nation's highest office, and whose presidency witnessed the … read more
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21. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
By: Jon Meacham
4.04
Format: 802 pages, Kindle Edition
In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Lion and Franklin and … read more
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"No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty."-Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
"Jefferson was the rare leader who stood out from the crowd without intimidating it."-Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
"Jefferson was ambivalent about executive power – until he bore executive responsibility."-Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
"Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize."-Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
