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The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 4 by Robert A. Caro Publisher Comments Book Four of Robert A. Caro's monumental The Years of Lyndon Johnson displays all the narrative energy and illuminating insight that led the Times of London to acclaim it as "one of the truly great political biographies of the modern age. A... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover 
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Years of Lyndon Johnson Volume 1: The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 1 by Robert Caro Publisher Comments This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and ambition that set LBJ apart. It follows... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin Publisher Comments Soon to be a major motion picture, Lincoln, from Steven Spielberg, with a screenplay by Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning writer Tony Kushner, and starring Daniel Day-Lewis as the President and Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln. In this mega... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro From Powells.com "The main emotion that the reader, or at least one reader, comes away with is anger: anger at a government that for so long could tolerate a body of leaders who succeeded at stalling the cause of reform in this country, and anger at a citizenry that also... (read more) Your price: $22.00 New - Trade Paper
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin Publisher Comments Soon to be a major motion picture, Lincoln, from Steven Spielberg, with a screenplay by Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning writer Tony Kushner, and starring Daniel Day-Lewis as the President and Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln. In this mega... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen Publisher Comments The Man Without a Face is the chilling account of how a low- level, small-minded KGB operative ascended to the Russian presidency and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress and made his country once more a threat to her own people... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Years of Lyndon Johnson : Means of Ascent (90 Edition) by Robert A. Caro Publisher Comments Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the greatly acclaimed The Path to Power, also winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, continues -- one of the richest, most intensive and most revealing examinations ever undertaken of... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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John Adams by David Mccullough Publisher Comments 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 -- "the colossus of independence," as Thomas Jefferson called him --... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Power Broker : Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (74 Edition) by Robert A. Caro Publisher Comments One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and makes public what few... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Indomitable Will: LBJ in the Presidency by Mark Updegrove Publisher Comments Nearly fifty years after being sworn in as president of the United States in the wake of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, Lyndon Baines Johnson remains a largely misunderstood figure. His force of personality, mastery of power and the... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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John F. Kennedy (American Presidents) by Alan Brinkley Publisher Comments The young president who brought vigor and glamour to the White House while he confronted cold war crises abroad and calls for social change at home John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a new kind of president. He redefined how Americans came to see the nation's... (read more) Your price: $23.00 New - Hardcover
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Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow Publisher Comments Ron Chernow, the renowned author of Titan whom the New York Times has called as elegant an architect of monumental histories as weve seen in decades, vividly re-creates the whole sweep of Alexander Hamiltons turbulent lifehis exotic, brutal... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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James Madison (American Presidents) by Garry Wills Publisher Comments A bestselling historian examines the life of a Founding Father. Renowned historian and social commentator Garry Wills takes a fresh look at the life of James Madison, from his rise to prominence in the colonies through his role in the creation of the... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation by Deborah Davis Publisher Comments In this revealing social history, one remarkable White House dinner becomes a lens through which to examine race, politics, and the lives and legacies of two of Americas most iconic figures. In 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell Staff Pick Leave it to Sarah Vowell to roam across America in search of the motivations and culture of political murder. Obsessive, edifying, and, of course, witty, Assassination Vacation is unlike any other historical tourism or travel writing book you'll ever... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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My Life by Bill Clinton Publisher Comments President Bill Clinton's My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public. It shows us the progress... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent (Simon & Schuster America Collection) by Robert W Merry Publisher Comments ROBERT MERRYS BRILLIANT AND HIGHLY ACCLAIMED HISTORY OF A CRUCIAL EPOCH IN U.S. HISTORY. In a one-term presidency, James K. Polk completed the story of Americas Manifest Destiny—extending its territory across the continent by threatening... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela Publisher Comments These are riveting memoirs of one of the great moral and political figures of our time, an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher, from Grocer's Daughter to Prime Minister by John Campbell Publisher Comments The Iron Lady, the definitive Margaret Thatcher biography, is available just in time for the movie starring Meryl Streep as one of the most infamous figures in postwar politics. Whether you love her or hate her, Margaret Thatcher's impact on twentieth... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith Publisher Comments In his magisterial bestseller FDR, Jean Edward Smith gave us a fresh, modern look at one of the most indelible figures in American history. Now this peerless biographer returns with a new life of Dwight D. Eisenhower that is as full, rich, and revealing... (read more) Your price: $40.00 New - Hardcover
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