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Churchill Best Price: $2.96 I didn't finish this book. Jenkins just throws his note cards at the hapless reader. The... | Khrushchev: The Man and His Era Best Price: $4.41 William Taubman's biography of N.S. Khrushchev won the American prestigious Pulitzer Prize in... | Ronald Reagan: An American Hero Best Price: $1.25 What does it say about the gestalt of America that this man could have remotely been considered... | Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman Best Price: $2.70 This book grew out of a proposed documentary film, and only later was it transcribed as a... | Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero (Eminent Lives) Best Price: $4.94 This is a tiny book that one can easily read in a few hours, apparently intended for those (90%)... |
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Jacqueline Kennedy : The White House Years: Selections from the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum Best Price: $23.99 This book is a wonderful and colorful example of what the first Lady chose to wear for her... | Lincoln the Lawyer Best Price: $19.47 Dirck tries to do two things here. First he tries to assess Lincoln's law practice in the... | The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House Best Price: $6.50 Republicans blamed Bill Clinton for 9/11, saying he cut the military and weakened the... | The Legacy of Andrew Jackson: Essays on Democracy, Indian Removal and Slavery (Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History) Best Price: $6.00 | Jeffersonian Legacies Best Price: $18.05 Compilation of various essays written by various experts about Thomas Jefferson life and his... |
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The Kennedy Mystique: Creating Camelot Best Price: $1.87 The Kennedy Mystique is a wonderful book. My 7 year old Daughter likes to look at the pictures.... | The Virtues of Aging (Library of Contemporary Thought) Best Price: $0.95 Simple, plain, clear good advice enlived by personal example and story. This is a good book... | The History of Alexander (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.61 Another book written on Alexander the Great,but different from the others. So many have written... | The Presidents Fact Book: A Comprehensive Handbook to the Achievements, Events, People, Triumphs, and Tragedies of Every President from George to George W. Bush Best Price: $72.94 This book is wonderful for ages 7 and up. Our family members are all becoming Presidential... | Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973 Best Price: $29.95 Fine, scholarly biography of the Ph.D.-thesis type. Dallek relies mainly on documentary sources... |
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Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President (Library of Religious Biography) Best Price: $12.31 This is fine biography traces Lincoln's philosphical and theological development and in so doing... | The Presidency of Thomas Jefferson Best Price: $10.99 While this book is an excellent telling of the major events of Jefferson's presidency, it is not... | Big Enough to Be Inconsistent: Abraham Lincoln Confronts Slavery and Race (The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures) Best Price: $12.11 there is only one thing to say. He was big enough to be inconsistent. He was not going to be... | Japan Unbound: A Volatile Nation's Quest for Pride and Purpose Best Price: $10.98 Japan Unbound is a must read for anyone trying to understand Japanese culture today. This book... | Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House Best Price: $4.36 Grace & Power has to be one of my favorite non fiction pieces. I originally borrowed it from... |
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Presidential Travel: The Journey from George Washington to George W. Bush Best Price: $15.98 In office less than half a year, President George Washington undertook an arduous month-long... | The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War Best Price: $8.95 After a devastating world war, culminating in the obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it was... | Lives of the Later Caesars: The First Part of the Augustan History, with Newly Compiled Lives of Nerva & Trajan Best Price: $5.95 The German scholar H. Dessau unmasked the six authors of the Historia Augusta (HA) as the... | Eisenhower: A Biography (Great Generals) Best Price: $1.25 Of the four titles in Palgrave's Great Generals Series that I've now read (Patton, Bradley,... | Lenin: A Biography Best Price: $13.55 I'm amazed that anyone could enjoy this biography, regardless of the depth of new information it... |
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Andrew Jackson: Symbol for an Age (Galaxy Books) Best Price: $4.83 American democratic politics, as can be easily seen in this year's presidential nominating... | Around the World with LBJ: My Wild Ride as Air Force One Pilot, White House Aide, and Personal Confidant Best Price: $16.86 Very well written and tells a lot about the inner being of LBJ. You won't want to put it down. | The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson Best Price: $14.00 Each of these books were in very good condition as stated in the ordering info. Each was... | The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty Best Price: $2.00 I read this book through 2 times. It is astounding how many people have lied and cheated to... | Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President Best Price: $15.75 Given the complexity of both the man and the times he lived in I would have thought that a one... |
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Fdr's Splendid Deception: The Moving Story of Roosevelt's Massive Disability-And the Intense Efforts to Conceal It from the Public Best Price: $11.00 (originally posted May 6, 2000)
Countless biographies have been written about the nation's 32nd... | Chasing Churchill: The Travels of Winston Churchill Best Price: $4.00 So much of what is written about WSC...even what was written by him...is rather academic and at... | Lincoln's Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home Best Price: $2.89 In each of the years he served as President of the United
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Lincoln: The Presidential Archives Best Price: $22.41 Lincoln: The Presidential Archives, Chuck Wills, Dorling Kindersley Publications, 160 pp, b/w... | Complete Idiot's Guide to the American Presidents Best Price: $500.00 The only reason I didn't give this book 5 stars is because the presidents are not listed... | Pursuit: The Chase, Capture, Persecution, and Surprising Release of Confederate President Jefferson Davis Best Price: $12.48 Another job well done Clint Johnson! As with all of your books you can tell immediately this one... | Robert the Bruce: King of Scots Best Price: $2.37 An interesting read, but you had better like history. No glamour here, just fact telling. I was... | The Roosevelt Presence: The Life and Legacy of FDR Best Price: $11.99 In The Roosevelt Presence, Maney does his best to justify and explain away issues relative to... |
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Lincoln's Other White House: The Untold Story of the Man and His Presidency Best Price: $13.78 Interesting angle on Lincoln presidency. Many of the momentous occasions of this era took place... | Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life Best Price: $2.00 This is a very difficult book to properly evaluate. Well researched and certainly well written,... | John Tyler: Champion of the Old South (Signature Series) Best Price: $25.46 This is a fine biography in terms of providing a great deal of detail and factual information... | President Nixon: Alone in the White House Best Price: $1.69 Richard Reeves is a fair author. Having read his previous book on President Kennedy, I was... | John Adams: The American Presidents Series Best Price: $8.94 While the book does have good info on Adams' personal life & early career as lawyer, it is... |
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The JFK Assassination Debates: Lone Gunman Versus Conspiracy Best Price: $19.77 The idea behind 2006's "JFK: The Assassination Debates" seems valuable and overdue: A... | Faith and the Presidency: From George Washington to George W. Bush Best Price: $23.42 Even though tomes have been written on the American presidents, Dr. Smith manages to bring fresh... | Declaring Independence: Jefferson, Natural Language, and the Culture of Performance Best Price: $19.93 I read the first 90 pages of this book for a report in a graduate course...Now I'm buying it to... | An Enduring Love: My Life with the Shah: A Memoir Best Price: $2.91 This is a really good book. Not only does it talk about Empress Farah's childhool, education,... | Mr. Jefferson's Women Best Price: $5.95 Thomas Jefferson is one of the most troubling characters among America's founding fathers. He... |
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Lula of Brazil: The Story So Far Best Price: $12.47 Luiz In?cio Lula da Silva's dramatic life story has captured the imagination of millions, and... | Summers with Lincoln: Looking for the Man in the Monuments Best Price: $12.47 Though we may try to bury it in our thoughts and hearts and souls, we all realize that we are... | New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America Best Price: $17.82 | Abraham Lincoln: A Biography Best Price: $17.21 Long considered a classic, Benjamin P. Thomas's Abraham Lincoln: A Biography takes an incisive... | |