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John Adams

John Adams more books like this

by David McCullough

In his first book since "Truman", one of America's most distinguished and popular biographers breathes life into history with this compelling look at the second president of the United States, John Adams. More than just a biography, this book looks at the birth of a young republic and explores the extraordinary factors that transformed 13 colonies ...

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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln more books like this

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in her #1 "New York Times" bestseller, as she chronicles the rise of the the one-term congressman/prairie lawyer from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president. 16 pages of photos.

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Deception Point

Deception Point more books like this

by Dan Brown

Government employee Rachel Sexton is sent to the Arctic Circle, where a band of scientists and Delta Force soldiers is trying to excavate a possible extraterrestrial spaceship from the ice. She soon discovers a sinister government plot.

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Without Fail

Without Fail more books like this

by Lee Child

Ex-military cop Jack Reacher is assigned to protect the vice president-elect, Senator Brook Armstrong, from an assassin who has been sending threatening letters and killing innocent men whose last names happen to be Armstrong--just to show that he's serious. As Reacher tries to determine the identity of this diabolical adversary, he discovers that ...

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Truman

Truman more books like this

by David McCullough (Read by)

Huge, ambitious, and perfectly realized, Truman is an American masterpiece about the most American of Americans, a man who confounded the nation and the world by achieving a greatness all his own after coming to the presidency in FDR's giant shadow. An extraordinary and deeply moving biography, at once spare in its style yet rich in emotion and in ...

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Absolute Power

Absolute Power more books like this

by David Baldacci

While casing the safe in a billionaire's mansion, Luther Whitney witnesses the brutal murder of a woman. To further complicate matters, the woman is the mistress of the President of the United States. Immediately, the cover-up is set in motion by the president's most trusted aides...and Luther is running for his life.

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His Excellency: George Washington

His Excellency: George Washington more books like this

by Joseph J Ellis

This biographical study of George Washington, the founding father who was "first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen," reexamines the personal and public sides of the man who set this nation on its course and became its first president. Joseph Ellis draws on voluminous research, and especially on the archives in the ...

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The Revolution: A Manifesto

The Revolution: A Manifesto more books like this

by Ron Paul

Moving from topic to topic at a quick pace, whittling everything down to its bare essentials, Paul tackles everything from the false choices in American politics to foreign policy as it was laid out by the founding fathers to economic freedom, abortion, civil liberties, and personal responsibility.

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Mark of the Assassin

Mark of the Assassin more books like this

by Daniel Silva

In Washington, DC, a group of powerful businessmen hatches a secret plot with a singular goal: destroy the president of the United States.

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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, the Home Front in World War II

No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, the Home Front in World War II more books like this

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

In a consummate blend of history and biography, Goodwin illuminates the partnership between Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt that raised America from the Depression, forged military victory, and transformed the nation into a superpower. 32 pages of photos.

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Theodore Rex more books like this

by Edmund Morris

The second entry in Morris's projected three-volume life of Theodore Roosevelt focuses on the presidential years 1901 through early 1909. Impeccably researched and beautifully composed, Morris's book provides what is arguably the best consideration of Roosevelt's presidency ever penned. Illustrations.

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Fear and loathing: on the campaign trail '72 more books like this

by Hunter S Thompson

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Road from Coorain more books like this

by Jill Ker Conway

A memoir of Jill Ker Conway's childhood in Australia and her education in the US, where she became the first woman president of Smith College.

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My Life more books like this

by Bill Clinton, President

Former president Bill Clinton's highly anticipated memoirs will be published in June. My Life, an account of Clinton's life through the White House years, is one of the most eagerly awaited books of recent years. The book will go on sale nationwide, with a first printing of 1.5 million copies. My Life also will be available from Random ...

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Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt more books like this

by David McCullough

"Mornings on Horseback" is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. Hailed as "a masterpiece" (John A. Gable, "Newsday" ), it is the winner of the "Los Angeles Times" 1981 Book Prize for Biography and the National Book Award for Biography. Written by David McCullough, the author of "Truman," this is the story of a remarkable little ...

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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York more books like this

by Robert A Caro

Robert Caro's study reveals Robert Moses as a head of a state agency who seemed to wield more power than most elected officials, and who forever changed the public face of New York City. Moses is credited with building Lincoln Center, the United Nations, and Shea Stadium, among other projects. A fascinating study of personality, politics, and ...

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American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson more books like this

by Joseph J Ellis

A biography of Thomas Jefferson, written by a professor of history at Mount Holyoke.

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An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963 more books like this

by Robert Dallek

This biography of John F. Kennedy draws on the author's access to documents and other sources that reveal some hitherto unknown information, including the true state of Kennedy's health. Author Dallek also reveals that Kennedy had an affair with a White House intern. But mostly this is a serious study of the life and 1,000-day presidency, with an ...

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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt more books like this

by Edmund Morris

The first volume of Edmund Morris's biography of Theodore Roosevelt covers his life up to 1901, when he assumed the presidency following the assassination of President McKinley. Morris explores Roosevelt's origins and growth, and conveys the robust personality that charmed a nation.

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Dead Heat more books like this

by Joel C Rosenberg

For Jon and Erin Bennett, the world seems to be spinning dangerously out of control. During one of the most fiercely contested presidential elections in American history, the Bennetts realize the stakes could not be higher.

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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey more books like this

by Candice Millard

In a powerful new narrative history, former "National Geographic" writer and editor Millard traces the bold 1914 expedition to chart the Amazon's treacherous River of Doubt, and casts new light on the expedition's extraordinary leader, Theodore Roosevelt. High school & older.

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Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness more books like this

by Joshua Wolf Shenk

In this biographical study of Abraham Lincoln, Joshua Wolf Shenk explores the lifelong melancholy that characterized Lincoln's personality and the ways that Lincoln harnessed it to achieve greatness. Drawing on primary source material, such as the many oral histories from Lincoln's contemporaries, as well as on current biographies and research ...

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The Plot Against America more books like this

by Philip Roth

Philip Roth creates a startling premise: Charles Lindbergh beats out Franklin Roosevelt and is elected president of the US in 1940, inaugurating an atmosphere of anti-Semitism and bigotry that turns the country into a nightmare for Jews. Among them are the Roths: Herman, Bess, and the two boys, Philip and Sandy. Philip is undergoing a typically ...

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Living History more books like this

by Hillary Rodham Clinton

In this memoir, Hillary Clinton writes of her experiences as First Lady during the Clinton administration, and her subsequent, successful candidacy for U.S. senator from New York. She also reviews her Chicago upbringing, her early efforts to distinguish herself, her feelings about the failure of the Clinton health care initiative, the "vast right ...

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Bear and the Dragon more books like this

by Tom Clancy, General

Newly elected in his own right, Jack Ryan has found that being president has gotten no easier. Domestic pitfalls await him at every turn, there's a revolution in Liberia, the Asian economy is going down the tubes, and now, in Moscow, someone has tried to take out the chairman of the the former KGB with a rocket-propelled grenade. Then, forces in ...

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