Presidents & Heads of State

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Seven colleagues of Wilson have set down their mature estimates of him: Edwin Grant Conklin, Luther P. Eisenhart, George McLean Harper, J. Duncan Spaeth, Robert K. Root, Edward S. Corwin and William Starr Myers. Originally published in 1946. The...

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They Knew Lincoln, first published in 1942, captures impressions of Abraham Lincoln by African Americans who personally knew and interacted with him in Springfield, Illinois, and Washington, DC. Dr. John Washington, an African American collector of...

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This groundbreaking biography has been universally acclaimed as a landmark work on Thomas Jefferson's early and mature years. Mapp follows Jefferson from his birth in 1743 through the American Revolution and up until his inauguration as President of the...

George Herbert Walker Bush is the oldest living former president of the United States, and the time has come to evaluate not just his political legacy, but to rediscover what made him a great man. He is the patriarch of America's most powerful political...

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Adolf Hitler was hardly the modern world's only murderous tyrant and imperialist. Yet he and the regime he ruled over for 12 years exerted an enormous impact on the history of the 20th Century. We are still living with the consequences. Interpretations...

China has become the powerhouse of the world economy, its incredible boom overseen by the elite members of the secretive and all-powerful communist party. But since the election of Xi Jinping as General Secretary, life at the top in China has changed...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345802798Author Steven Lee MyersFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 805gDimensions(mm) 233mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307237194Author Steven F. HaywardFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 182gDimensions(mm)...

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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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The first English-language biography of the de facto ruler of the late Ottoman Empire and architect of the Armenian GenocideTalaat Pasha (1874-1921) led the triumvirate that ruled the late Ottoman Empire during World War I and is arguably the father of...

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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...

The Inevitability of Tragedy is a fascinating intellectual biography that examines Henry Kissinger's role in American government through his ideas. It analyses the continuing controversies surrounding Kissinger's policies in such places as Vietnam and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501144004Author Clay RisenFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

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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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451489012Author Harold HolzerFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint DuttonPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 669gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 157mm * 36mm

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,...