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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster
The life and times of Abraham Lincoln have been analyzed and dissected in countless books. Do we need another Lincoln biography? In Team of Rivals , esteemed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin proves that we do. Though she can't help but cover some...
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John Adams
David McCullough
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster
Left to his own devices, John Adams might have lived out his days as a Massachusetts country lawyer, devoted to his family and friends. As it was, events swiftly overtook him, and Adams--who, David McCullough writes, was "not a man of the world" and...
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The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America
Thurston Clarke
Henry Holt and Co.
Henry Holt and Co.
Amazon Best of the Month, June 2008 : When Senator Robert F. Kennedy entered the presidential race during the chaotic year of 1968, anarchy appeared to be gathering on the horizon. America was coming to grips with an unwinnable war in Vietnam and...
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Joseph J. Ellis
Vintage
Vintage
In retrospect, it seems as if the American Revolution was inevitable. But was it? In Founding Brothers , Joseph J. Ellis reveals that many of those truths we hold to be self-evident were actually fiercely contested in the early days of the...
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Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
Rick Perlstein
Scribner
Scribner
Amazon Best of the Month, May 2008 : How did we go from Lyndon Johnson's landslide Democratic victory in 1964 to Richard Nixon's equally lopsided Republican reelection only eight years later? The years in between were among the most chaotic in...
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster
As a scientist, Albert Einstein is undoubtedly the most epic among 20th-century thinkers. Albert Einstein as a man, however, has been a much harder portrait to paint, and what we know of him as a husband, father, and friend is fragmentary at...
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A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano
Katie Hafner
Bloomsbury USA
Bloomsbury USA
A grand tale of obsession about the brilliant Glenn Gould and the unique, temperamental instrument he came to love beyond all others, by a top New York Times writer. Glenn Gould was one of the most complex, brilliant artists of the twentieth...
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George Washington on Leadership
Richard Brookhiser
Basic Books
Basic Books
FIRST IN WAR, FIRST IN PEACE, FIRST IN LEADERSHIP. Richard Brookhiser’s revolutionary biography, Founding Father , took George Washington off the dollar bill and made him live. Now, with his trademark wit and precision, Brookhiser expertly...
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Truman
David McCullough
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster
This warm biography of Harry Truman is both an historical evaluation of his presidency and a paean to the man's rock-solid American values. Truman was a compromise candidate for vice president, almost an accidental president after Roosevelt's death...
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
Candice Millard
Broadway
Broadway
At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth. The River of...
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