Presidents & Heads of State

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In 1802, a revenge-seeking journalist named James T. Callender charged that Thomas Jefferson, president of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence, had taken a light-skinned slave named Sally Hemings as his mistress, adn that the...

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Andrew Jackson towered over American life during the second quarter of the nineteenth century, so much so that the period has been dubbed the Jacksonian era. With the passionate support of most voters and their families, he broke through the protocols of...

Most Americans know Andrew Jackson as a frontier rebel against political and diplomatic norms, a "populist" champion of ordinary people against the elitist legacy of the Founding Fathers. Many date the onset of American democracy to his 1829 inauguration...

Former South African president Thabo Mbeki is a complex figure. He was a committed young Marxist who, while in power, embraced conservative economic policies and protected white corporate interests; a rational and dispassionate thinker who was...

Late in 1863 a young painter named Francis B. Carpenter wished to commemorate the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation. The likable and well-connected Carpenter received President Lincoln's consent during a visit to the White House. "Well, Mr...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of L.A. Times Book Prize (Biography) 2012 and Mailer Prize for Distinguished Biography 2012 and Mark Lynton History Prize 2013 and National Book Critics Circle...

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One of the greatest American presidents, Franklin Delano Roosevelt built a coalition of labour, ethnic, urban, low-income and African American voters that underwrote the Democratic Party's national ascendancy from the 1930s to the 1980s. Over his four...

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a new kind of president. He redefined how Americans came to see the nation's chief executive. He was forty-three when he was inaugurated in 1961 - the youngest man ever elected to the office - and he personified what he called...

Have you ever heard the story on the news of a politician being "found dead" or "committing suicide," and it seemed a little strange to you? You think, "There's something they're not telling me." Well, after you read Dead Wrong, you'll realize that your...

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Few figures in American history are as compelling and complex as Lyndon Baines Johnson, who established himself as the master of the U.S. Senate in the 1950s and succeeded John F. Kennedy in the White House after Kennedy's assassination on November 22,...

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Although it lasted only a single term, the presidency of George H. W. Bush was an unusually eventful one, encompassing the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the invasion of Panama, the Persian...

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Of the original Gilded Age, historian Richard Hofstadter wrote: "There is no other period in the nation's history when politics seems so completely dwarfed by economic changes, none in which the lifeof the country rests so completely in the hands of the...

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe sharply divides opinion and embodies the contradictions of his country's history and political culture. As a symbol of African liberation and a stalwart opponent of white rule, he was respected and revered by many. This...

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George Washington's place in the foundations of the Republic remains unrivalled. His life story--from his beginnings as a surveyor and farmer, to colonial soldier in the Virginia Regiment, leader of the Patriot cause, commander of the Continental Army,...

Toward the end of his administration (2010-2015), then Uruguayan President Jose 'Pepe' Mujica made headlines across the world with a couple of unusual speeches at United Nations assemblies in Rio de Janeiro and New York that were heatedly...

"Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God." - Matthew 5:9"I don't think any president has been more wrongly persecuted than Nixon, ever. I just think he was a saint." - Ben SteinFrom Ben Stein, New York Times bestselling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385525190Author Peter BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 832Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 924gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 158mm...

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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 historian.The life of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385722285Author Peter SchweizerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Bantam USAPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

Discover how the Oval Office's occupants have made and make history Which one was the tallest? Which one fought a duel? Which had liquor smuggled into the White House during Prohibition? And why is the president even called the president in the first...

This omnibus edition brings together concise and up-to-date biographies of Steve Biko, Emperor Haile Selassie, Patrice Lumumba, and Thomas Sankara. African Leaders of the Twentieth Century will complement courses in history and political science and...

Each day during his presidency, Jimmy Carter made several entries in a private diary. He provided unvarnished assessments of cabinet members, congressmen, and foreign leaders, recording his thoughts, impressions, delights, and frustrations. But this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451477279Author Tim McgrathFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

On 20th August 1940 Trotsky's life was brutally ended when a Stalinist agent brought an ice pick crashing down on his head. Among the works left unfinished was the second part of his biography of Stalin. Trotsky's Stalin is unique in Marxist literature...

How did two men move the world away from wars for land and treasure to wars over ideas and ideologies-a change that would go on to kill millions?In April 1917, Woodrow Wilson-champion of American democracy but also of segregation, advocate for free trade...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805069518Author Zachary KarabellFormat HardbackPage Count 170Imprint St. Martins Press-3plPublisher St. Martins Press-3plWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438455136Author Edward P. KohnFormat HardbackPage Count 322Imprint Excelsior EditionsPublisher State University of New York PressWeight(grams)...