28 Top politics books like Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero by Chris Matthews

Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero

By: Chris Matthews

4.06

Format: 479 pages, Hardcover

“What was he like?” Jack Kennedy said the reason people read biography is to answer that basic q…

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1. Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir

By: Clint Hill , Lisa McCubbin Hill , Lisa McCubbin

4.24

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir by Clint Hill that Kirkus Reviews called “clear and honest… read more

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"We had been through so much together, mrs. Kennedy and me. More than anyone can imagine. More than anyone can ever know."
-Clint Hill, Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir
"it's been a long time since i've thought about that night, that wonderful raucous night. I can still see the president s surprise and amusement while opening gifts. I can still hear the music, the gu…"
-Clint Hill, Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir

2. An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963

By: Robert Dallek

3.99

Format: 849 pages, Paperback

Drawing on previously unavailable material and never-before-opened archives, An Unfinished Life is … read more

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"She was a little removed,"
-Robert Dallek, An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963

3. The Best and the Brightest

By: David Halberstam

4.27

Format: 688 pages, Paperback

The Best and the Brightest is David Halberstam's masterpiece, the defining history of the making of… read more

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"There was, I found, always more to learn."
-David Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest
"true wisdom ... is the product of hard-won, often bitter experience."
-David Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest
"Most journalists are impatient to get their legwork done and to start the actual writing"
-David Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest
"Among those dazzled by the Administration team was Vice-President Lyndon Johnson. After attending his first Cabinet meeting he went back to his mentor Sam Rayburn and told him with great enthusiasm h…"
-David Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest

4. The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity

By: Nancy Gibbs , Michael Duffy

4.19

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

The Presidents Club, established at Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration by Harry Truman and Herbert Ho… read more

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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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"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 Making of the President 1960

By: Theodore H. White

4.15

Format: 486 pages, Hardcover

1961 Common Reader Classic Bestseller. A narrative history of American politics in action. 2004 Bar… read more

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"But if America falters in greatness and purpose, than Americans are nothing but the offscourings and hungry of other lands."
-Theodore H. White, The Making of the President 1960
"The Americans of the age were not an irreligious people; and the fact that they were Christian was very important, for the marks of Christianity lay all across the Constitution."
-Theodore H. White, The Making of the President 1960
"The forces that run in American politics in our age are many and varied; they run in strange ways in our times of general education--they run in the meeting of white and black; in the nagging, daily …"
-Theodore H. White, The Making of the President 1960

7. The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America

By: Thurston Clarke

4.28

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The definitive account of Robert Kennedy’s exhilarating and tragic 1968 campaign for president—a re… read more

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"Unlike most politicians who follow their audience, (Robert) Kennedy tried to lead his."
-Thurston Clarke, The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America

8. 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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9. Portrait of a President: John F. Kennedy in Profile

By: William Manchester

3.44

Format: 216 pages,

This is an inside look at the man who was our 35th president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Manchester w… read more

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10. America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

By: Sarah Bradford

4.00

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

Now the subject of a new film directed by Pablo Larrain, "Jackie," starring Natalie Portman Accl… read more

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11. 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

12. Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero

By: Chris Matthews

4.06

Format: 479 pages, Hardcover

“What was he like?” Jack Kennedy said the reason people read biography is to answer that basic q… read more

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13. Wilson

By: A. Scott Berg

5.00

Format: 172 pages,

From Pulitzer Prize-winning, #1 New York Times-bestselling author A. Scott Berg comes the definitiv… read more

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14. Robert Kennedy: His Life

By: Evan Thomas

4.23

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

He was "Good Bobby," who, as his brother Ted eulogized him, "saw wrong and tried to right it . . . … read more

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"Always do what you're afraid to do"-Robert F. Kennedy"
-Evan Thomas, Robert Kennedy: His Life

15. American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant

By: Ronald C. White Jr.

4.21

Format: 864 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of A. Lincoln, a major new biography of one of America'… read more

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16. Profiles in Courage

By: Caroline Kennedy , Robert F. Kennedy , John F. Kennedy

3.92

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize winning classic by President John F. Kennedy, with an introduction by Caroline K… read more

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"To be courageous, these stories make clear, requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place and circumstance."
-Caroline Kennedy, Profiles in Courage
"You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know E…"
-Caroline Kennedy, Profiles in Courage
"If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housi…"
-Caroline Kennedy, Profiles in Courage

17. 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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18. The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty

By: Susan Page

4.11

Format: None pages, Audio CD

A vivid biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush, one of the most influential and under-apprecia… read more

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19. My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy

By: Clint Hill

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Mrs. Kennedy and Me reveal … read more

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20. Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World

By: Eileen McNamara

4.05

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist examines the life and times of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, arguing … read more

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21. Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy

By: Carl Sferrazza Anthony

3.99

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

“One of the most detailed, nuanced portraits of Jackie to date.” — The Washington Post An illumi… read more

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22. Romney: A Reckoning

By: McKay Coppins

4.36

Format: 416 pages, ebook

A remarkably illuminating biography of the political maverick, filled with revelations and written … read more

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23. The First Kennedys: The Humble Roots of an American Dynasty

By: Neal Thompson

3.87

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Based on genealogical breakthroughs and previously unreleased records, this is the first book to ex… read more

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24. JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956

By: Fredrik Logevall

4.55

Format: 792 pages, Hardcover

A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian takes us as close as we have ever been to the real John F. Kenne… read more

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25. Agent 355

By: Marie Benedict

3.73

Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition

A novella A fictional portrayal of a real-life Revolutionary spy and her daring deeds, from the … read more

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26. Jackie and Maria: A Novel of Jackie Kennedy & Maria Callas

By: Gill Paul

4.15

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

From the internationally bestselling author of The Secret Wife comes a tale of love, sacrifice and … read more

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27. Jackie: Public, Private, Secret

By: J. Randy Taraborrelli

4.17

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author of Jackie, Janet & Lee comes a fresh and often startling loo… read more

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28. White House by the Sea: A Century of the Kennedys at Hyannis Port

By: Kate Storey

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“Impeccably researched…captivating!” —Elin Hilderbrand * “A well-paced history.” — The New York Tim… read more

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29. Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

By: Elizabeth Beller

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The life and legacy of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., are reexamined in thi… read more

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30. And They Called It Camelot: A Novel of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

By: Stephanie Marie Thornton

4.19

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

An intimate portrait of the life of Jackie O… Few of us can claim to be the authors of our fat… read more

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"All I want is a man with a little imagination. Is that too much to ask?"
-Stephanie Marie Thornton, And They Called It Camelot: A Novel of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

31. Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

By: Maureen Callahan

4.25