In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American ...
The Case of Abraham Lincoln: A Story ...
Julie M. FensterAbraham Lincoln in 1856 was at a difficult point, personally. Depressed, edgy, and often despondent, he had grown bored with his work as a lawyer. He saw himself as a former congressman with little future in politics. Then in May of 1...
Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidenc...
Nigel HamiltonA decade-and-a-half after President William Jefferson Clinton first took the oath of office, biographer Nigel Hamilton tells the riveting story of what was possibly the greatest self-reinvention of a president in office in modern time...
Destiny and Power: The American Odyss...
Jon MeachamIn this brilliant biography, Jon Meacham, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author, chronicles the life of George Herbert Walker Bush. Drawing on President Bush's personal diaries, on the diaries of his wife, Barbara, and on extraordinary ...
George Washington on Leadership
Richard BrookhiserGeorge Washington on Leadership is a textbook look at Washington's three spectacularly successful careers as an executive: general, president, and tycoon.
The Passage of Power: The Years of Ly...
Robert A. CaroThe Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and the most triumphant periods of his career — 1958 to 1964. It is a time that would see him trade the extraordinary power he had created for himself as ...
A gripping portrait of the first president of the United States from the author of Alexander Hamilton, the New York Times bestselling biography that inspired the musical.Celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced por...
The Real Deal: My Decade Fighting Bat...
Charles ConstantWorking alongside Damian Bates, a journalist who has also known and covered Trump for years, George Sorial who worked side-by-side with Trump, and his kids, for over a decade tells how he shared the secrets of his success, his real vi...
What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Ken...
Michael Eric DysonThis program is read by the author.What Truth Sounds Like is a timely exploration of America's tortured racial politics that continues the conversation from Michael Eric Dyson's New York Times bestseller Tears We Cannot Stop.President...
An account of the former British prime minister's seventy-year relationship with the United States describes how he laid the foundation of a century-long alliance between the countries and established a policy of cooperation that cont...
An instant New York Times bestseller: From an award-winning historian and regular Fox contributor, the true story of how Donald Trump has become one of the most successful presidents in history -- and why America needs him now more th...
All the President's Women: Donald Tru...
Barry LevineWith groundbreaking interviews, behind-the-scenes reporting, and never-before-seen photos, All the President's Women records 43 new allegations of sexual misconduct against President Trump.During his 2016 presidential run, the revelat...
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Church...
William Manchester[This is the Audiobook CD edition of Volume 2 -- and it is complete in this one retail package]brbr VOLUME TWO -- The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, VOLUME TWO: Alone, 1932-1940 brbr [Read by Richard Brown]brbr This second volu...
The Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America's beloved and distinguished his...
Did Lincoln Own Slaves?: And Other Fr...
Gerald J. ProkopowiczOur most revered president gets a unique and uniquely engaging biography fashioned from the answers to the most frequent—and most unusual and surprising—questions asked about Abraham Lincoln. What kind of law did Lincoln practice?...
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years an...
Carl Sandburg"A Lincoln whom no other man than Carl Sandburg could have given us." – Mark Van Doren, New York Herald Tribune Book Review Originally published in six volumes, which sold more than one million copies, Carl Sandburg's Abra...
Calvin Coolidge, president from 1923 to 1929, never rated highly in polls, and history has remembered the decade in which he served as an extravagant period predating the Great Depression. Now Amity Shlaes provides a fresh look at the...
JFK Low Price CD: A Vision for Americ...
Stephen Kennedy SmithPublished in commemoration of the centennial of President John F. Kennedy's birth, here is the definitive compendium of JFK's most important and brilliant speeches, accompanied by a commentary and reflections by leading American and i...
Madison's Gift: Five Partnerships Tha...
David O. StewartOvershadowed by his fellow Founders, David O. Stewart restores James Madison to his proper place as the most significant framer of the new nation, through his successive partnerships with mentor George Washington, co-author Alexander ...
Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher: ...
Nicholas WapshottDrawing on interviews with those closest to them, as well as on hundreds of recently declassified private letters and telephone calls, Nicholas Wapshott depicts a complex, personal, and sometimes argumentative relationship between two...
Inside Trump's White House: The Real ...
Doug WeadAfter dozens of books and articles by anonymous sources, here is finally a history of the Trump White House with the President and his staff talking openly, on the record.In Inside Trump's White House, Doug Wead offers a sweeping, elo...
The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward's Twent...
Bob Woodward“The most memorable contribution to this year’s American political literature, however, was not a printed book. The Trump Tapes...is an audio collectionthat offers a passport to the heart of darkness.” —The Gua...
The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at ...
David B. WoolnerThe first 100 days of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency are justly famous, viewed as a period of political action without equal in American history. Yet as historian David B. Woolner reveals, the end of FDR's presidency might very well ...
An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, ...
Robert DallekAn Unfinished Life is the first major, single-volume life of John F. Kennedy to be written by a historian in nearly four decades. Drawing upon previously unavailable material and never-before-opened archives to tell Kennedy's story. ...
President Reagan: The Triumph of Imag...
Richard ReevesAcclaimed presidential historian Richard Reeves takes on the puzzle of Ronald Reagan, a man of limited breadth and knowledge who was perhaps the most effective president of postwar, superpower United States. Using the techniques he em...