Biography & Autobiography - Presidents & Heads of State
Explore great presidential biographies and head of the state books, including Abraham Lincoln biography. Find new biography books, top autobiographies books, and best books to read at our online bookstore.
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Peacemaker: U Thant and the Forgotten Quest for a Just WorldIn the early 1960s, a peaceful world was an imaginable goal. The still-young United Nations was widely respected and regarded as humankind's best hope for resolving global conflicts. African and Asian nations, having recently won their freedom from colonial domination, sought dignity and influence...
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Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and AmericaIn Polk, Walter R. Borneman gives us the first complete and authoritative biography of a president often overshadowed in image but seldom outdone in accomplishment. James K. Polk occupied the White House for only four years, from 1845 to 1849, but he plotted and...
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Pope Leo XIV: The BiographyA deeply personal biography of Pope Leo XIV, featuring his first-ever public interview as pope, from Elise Ann Allen, journalist and Rome correspondent for Crux. "An extraordinary achievement . . . a masterful and amazingly intimate portrait of our new pope."--Austen Ivereigh, biographer of...
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President Garfield: From Radical to UnifierAn "ambitious, thorough, supremely researched" (The Washington Post) biography of the extraordinary, tragic life of America's twentieth president--James Garfield. In "the most comprehensive Garfield biography in almost fifty years" (The Wall Street Journal), C.W. Goodyear charts the life and times of one of the...
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President McKinley: Architect of the American CenturyAcclaimed historian Robert Merry resurrects the presidential reputation of William McKinley in a "measured, insightful biography that seeks to set the record straight...a deft character study of a president" (The New York Times Book Review) whose low place in the presidential rankings does not...
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Presidential Road Trips: 100 Places To Explore And Experience The History of American PresidentsGet ready to hit the road and discover 100 places where American presidents made history! From the birthplace of George Washington to the train depot where Jimmy Carter launched his presidential campaign, this fun travel guide will help you plan an unforgettable American history...
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Presidential SeclusionBehind the gates of Camp David--where presidents find solitude, forge diplomacy, and shape history in absolute secrecy. The Presidential Retreat Camp David is shrouded in mystery, and rightfully so. The hidden retreat atop the Catoctin Mountains is the one place the President, First Family,...
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Presidents at War: How World War II Shaped a Generation of Presidents, from Eisenhower and JFK Through Reagan and BushSteven M. Gillon, historian and New York Times bestselling author, is back with the story of how WWII shaped the characters and politics of seven American presidents. World War II loomed over the latter half of the twentieth century, transforming every level of American...
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PT 109: An American Epic of War, Survival, and the Destiny of John F. KennedyThe extraordinary World War II story of shipwreck and survival that paved John F. Kennedy's path to power - hailed as a "breathtaking account" by James Patterson, "masterfully written" by historian Douglas Brinkley, and "the finest book" ever written on the subject by Lt....
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Reagan: His Life and LegendIn this "monumental and impressive" biography, Max Boot, the distinguished political columnist, illuminates the untold story of Ronald Reagan, revealing the man behind the mythology. Drawing on interviews with over one hundred of the fortieth president's aides, friends, and family members, as well as...
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Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 From the bestselling author of Nixonland and The Invisible Bridge comes the dramatic conclusion of how conservatism took control of American political power. Over two decades, Rick Perlstein has published three definitive works about the emerging...
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Remembering Jefferson: Who He Was, Who We AreAn expert on presidential history and national identity explores the complicated and conflicted ways Americans remember Thomas Jefferson and what these impressions reveal about the nation he helped to found.Thomas Jefferson is everywhere. In Washington, DC, and on Mount Rushmore. In history textbooks and...
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Richard Nixon: The LifeFrom a prize-winning biographer comes the defining portrait of a man who led America in a time of turmoil and left us a darker age. We live today, John A. Farrell shows, in a world Richard Nixon made. At the end of WWII, navy...
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Save AmericaAuthor: Donald J. TrumpPublisher: Winning Team PublishingPublished: 09/03/2024Pages: 360Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 4.60lbsSize: 10.60h x 11.80w x 1.20dISBN: 9798990290624About the AuthorDONALD J. TRUMP launched the Most Extraordinary Political Movement in History, dethroning Political Dynasties, defeating the Washington Establishment, and becoming the first True Outsider elected...
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Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening"A work of stunning erudition by one of our most brilliant chroniclers of the American past. By meticulously detailing how courageous activists sparked an environmental revolution that fueled the legislative imaginations of three very different presidents, Douglas Brinkley also renders a vivid portrait of...
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Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His BooksA compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal library "[A] fascinating new study."--Michael O'Donnell, Wall Street Journal In this engaging life of the twentieth century's most self-consciously learned dictator, Geoffrey Roberts explores the books Stalin read, how he read them, and what...
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Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928"A masterly account . . . Kotkin has given us a textured, gripping examination of the foundational years of the man most responsible for the construction of the Soviet state in all its brutal glory." --The New York Times Book Review"This is a very...
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Stalin: The Court of the Red TsarNATIONAL BESTSELLER - This widely acclaimed biography of a Soviet dictator and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of the Marxist leader and Russian tsar. - From the bestselling author of The Romanovs. "The first intimate portrait...
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Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941"Monumental." --The New York Times Book Review Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin has written the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror to the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history In 1929, Joseph Stalin,...
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham LincolnOne of the most influential books of the past fifty years, Team of Rivals is Pulitzer Prize-winning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin's modern classic about the political genius of Abraham Lincoln, his unlikely presidency, and his cabinet of former political foes....
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