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Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America
by Eric Rauchway  Publisher Comments When President McKinley was murdered at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York on September 6, 1901, Americans were bereaved and frightened. Rumor ran rampant: A wild-eyed foreign anarchist with an unpronounceable name had killed the Commander...
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Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid
by Jimmy Carter 
Publisher Comments Following his #1 New York Times bestseller Our Endangered Values, the former president, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, offers an assessment of what must be done to bring permanent peace to Israel with dignity and justice to Palestine. President...
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A Remarkable Mother
by Jimmy Carter Publisher Comments A Remarkable Mother is President Carter's loving, admiring, wry homage to Miss Lillian Carter, who championed the underdog always, even when her son was president. A registered nurse, pecan grower, university housemother, Peace Corps volunteer...
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Publisher Comments No Ordinary Time is a monumental work, a brilliantly conceived chronicle of one of the most vibrant and revolutionary periods in the history of the United States. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking...
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Powells.com Staff Pick A first rate biography by the brilliant historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, this landmark book details Lincoln's political acumen and remarkable leadership style. Recommended by Ted, Powells.com...
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Living History
by Hillary Rodham Clinton Publisher Comments The Phenomenal #1 Worldwide Bestseller WITH A NEW AFTERWORD Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey. She...
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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 who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose...
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Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
by Rick Perlstein Publisher Comments Told with urgency and sharp political insight, Nixonland recaptures America's turbulent 1960s and early 1970s and reveals how Richard Nixon rose from the political grave to seize and hold the presidency. Perlstein's epic account begins in the blood...
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Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald Ford
by Thomas M. DeFrank Publisher Comments In an extraordinary series of private interviews, conducted over sixteen years with the stipulation that they not be released until after Ford's death, the thirty-eighth president of the United States reveals a profoundly different side of himself: funny,...
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River of Doubt : Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (05 Edition)
by Candice Millard
Powells.com Staff Pick This true story traces the exploration of a previously un-navigated tributary of the Amazon River by Theodore Roosevelt, accompanied by his son Kermit. The trip was extremely dangerous, and Candice Millard tells the story with detail that makes you...
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Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 1: 1884-1933
by Blanche Wiesen Cook Synopsis Cook hit a nerve with her portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt--the brave, fierce, passionate, political heroine of our century. A national bestseller, her authoritative biography has been celebrated by feminists, historians, politicians, potential first ladies,...
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Lincoln
by David H Donald Publisher Comments David Herbert Donald's Lincoln is a stunningly original portrait of Lincoln's life and presidency. Donald brilliantly depicts Lincoln's gradual ascent from humble beginnings in rural Kentucky to the ever- expanding political circles in Illinois, and...
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To the Best of My Ability
by James M. Mcpherson Publisher Comments From Allen Weinsten's essay on how Theodore Roosevelt tested the limits of the presidency to a new essay by James Chase on the George W. Bush administration, this book delivers thoughtful analyses of the men who have led this country. "What a...
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Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
by James L. Swanson Publisher Comments Combining magnificent historical research with a thrilling story, Manhunt describes the hourandndash;byandndash;hour details of the twelve days after Abraham Lincoln's assassination when various factions within the U.S. government andndash; and even some...
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Presidential Travel: The Journey from George Washington to George W. Bush
by Richard J Ellis Publisher Comments In office less than half a year, President George Washington undertook an arduous month-long tour of New England to promote his new government and to dispel fears of monarchy. More than two hundred years later, American presidents still regularly...
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The Remarkable Millard Fillmore: The Unbelievable Life of a Forgotten President
by George Pendle Publisher Comments Millard Fillmore has been mocked, maligned, or, most cruelly of all, ignored by generations of historians--but no more! This unbelievable new biography finally rescues the unlucky thirteenth U.S. president from the dustbin of history and shows why a man...
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In Nixon's Web: A Year in the Crosshairs of Watergate
by L Patrick Gray Publisher Comments The last untold story of Watergate—by the FBI director who maintained his silence for more than thirty years L.Patrick Gray III was the man caught in the middle of the Watergate scandal. He was a lifelong Republican, but Richard Nixon...
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Dear First Lady: Letters to the White House
by Dwight Young Publisher Comments Following on the success of their recent collaboration Dear Mr. President, Dwight Young and Margaret Johnson join forces once again to produce this charming collection of correspondence to and from First Ladies during their time in office. A wonderful...
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Manhunt: The Twelve-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer (P.S.)
by James L Swanson
Powells.com Staff Pick Many books have been published about the assassination of our 16th president, but it's hard to imagine a more rewarding book than this one. Swanson's dramatic account of the hunt for John Wilkes Booth is a fascinating drama; exceptional historical...
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Theodore Rex
by Edmund Morris Publisher Comments The most eagerly awaited presidential biography in years, Theodore Rex is a sequel to Edmund Morris's classic bestseller The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. It begins by following the new President (still the youngest in American history) as he comes down...
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