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Joseph J. Ellis - Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

In a landmark work of history, the National Book Award—winning author of American Sphinx explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed men–Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Adams, and Madison–set the course for our nation.Joseph Ellis illuminat... Read more

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$5.00 - $21.00

Edmund Morris - The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

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. ... Read more

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$11.00 - $27.00

David Willis McCullough - Truman

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 o... Read more

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$9.00 - $30.00

Jon Meacham - American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

Jon Meacham's account of the White House years of Andrew Jackson shows him to be a man of principle as well as of passion. Even in those days, says Meacham, Washington was a hardball town, and he recounts how factions, rivalries, and revenge-taking sometimes ruled the day. But Meacham shows, through... Read more

Stores Selling: 5

$6.56 - $12.96

Doris Kearns Goodwin - No Ordinary Time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt The Home Front in World War II

A biography of Eleanor Roosevelt and an intimate look at those residing in the White House during the war years shows how Eleanor and Franklin together turned a country deep in depression into a militarily strong and economically healthy nation. Read by Edward Herrmann. Book available. ... Read more

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$7.00 - $20.00

H. W. Brands - Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

A best-selling biography of the life and career of Franklin Delano Roosevelt draws on archival materials, public speeches, interviews with family and colleagues, and personal correspondence to examine his political leadership and legacy. Reprint. A Washington Post Best Book of the Year. ... Read more

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$7.00 - $13.00

Ted Conover - Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing

A journalist recounts the year he spent as a corrections officer at the notorious prison, offering a true insider's view of the culture of its guards--both idealistic "new jacks" like himself and brutally hardened veterans, prison rituals like strip frisks and cell searches, and the impass... Read more

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$4.64 - $18.96

Russell Baker - Growing Up

A reissue of the original prize-winning memoir by journalist Russell Baker. ... Read more

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$.25 - $12.00

Jon Meacham - American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

Jon Meacham's account of the White House years of Andrew Jackson shows him to be a man of principle as well as of passion. Even in those days, says Meacham, Washington was a hardball town, and he recounts how factions, rivalries, and revenge-taking sometimes ruled the day. But Meacham shows, through... Read more

Stores Selling: 6

$17.00 - $25.00

H. W. Brands - Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

A sweeping biography of the life and political career of Franklin Delano Roosevelt draws on archival materials, public speeches, interviews with family and colleagues, and personal correspondence to examine FDR's political leadership in a dark time of Depression and war, his championship of the poor... Read more

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$17.00 - $31.00

Annette Gordon-Reed - The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

Historian Annette Gordon-Reed continues the meticulous and eye-opening investigation of the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings she began in her previous book (THOMAS JEFFERSON AND SALLY HEMINGS) by tracking the lives of the Hemings family in a variety of locations, bot... Read more

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$23.00 - $25.00

Robert A. Caro - The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

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 fas... Read more

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$14.00 - $41.00

Arthur Herman - Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age

The epic struggle between Mahatma Gandhi and Winston Churchill jumps to life from the pages of Arthur Herman's double biography. Detailing the lives of two of the most significant historical figures of the 20th century would be challenging enough, but Herman's fusion of the two stories is masterly: ... Read more

Stores Selling: 4

$8.00 - $14.00

Jon Meacham - American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

Jon Meacham's account of the White House years of Andrew Jackson shows him to be a man of principle as well as of passion. Even in those days, says Meacham, Washington was a hardball town, and he recounts how factions, rivalries, and revenge-taking sometimes ruled the day. But Meacham shows, through... Read more

Stores Selling: 5

$19.00 - $26.00

Katharine Graham - Personal History

In this critically acclaimed memoir, the woman who piloted the "Washington Post" through the crises of the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, and a pressmen's strike and turned it into a great newspaper now tells her story with courage, candor, and dignity. "Captivating . . . distinguished b... Read more

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$5.00 - $29.00

Robert Dallek - Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power

Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger were two of the most compelling, contradictory, and important leaders in America in the second half of the twentieth century. Both were largely self-made men, brimming with ambition and often ruthless in pursuit of their goals. Tapping into recently disclosed docume... Read more

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$3.00 - $21.00

Herbert P. Bix - Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

This biography of the emperor of Japan examines his formative years and how they shaped his character, his deft grasp of both the imperial system and modernity, his wielding of power and influence within his country, and that country's conflicts with major powers such as China and the United States.... Read more

Stores Selling: 2

$11.00 - $13.00

Robert Massie - Peter the Great: His Life and World

"Enthralling...As fascinating as any novel and more so than most!"THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWAgainst the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great. He brought Russia from the darkness of its own Middle Ag... Read more

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$5.03 - $15.75

David Levering Lewis - W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963

The second volume of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography begins with the end of World War I and chronicles the flowering of the Harlem Renaissance, the little-known political agenda behind it, Du Bois's battle for equality and justice for African Americans, and his self-exile in Ghana. ... Read more

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$8.00 - $16.00

Robert A. Caro - Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson

The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro’s life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues. Master of the Senate takes Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 through 1960, in the United States Senate. Once the most ... Read more

Stores Selling: 2

$12.00 - $14.00

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