Presidents & Heads of State

All roads begin somewhere and today’s U. S. highway system began with an unforgettable, exploratory, cross-country ride, led by a 28-year-old Army lieutenant colonel, Dwight Eisenhower. This is the story of his coast-to-coast journey and how the dream of...

Woodrow Wilson's contribution to American foreign policy is well known, but his role in the development of American political thought and institutions is less recognized. In this volume, Wilson scholar Ronald J. Pestritto presents and introduces the...

The description for this book, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4: October 1780 to February 1781, will be forthcoming.Book InformationISBN 9780691045368Author Thomas JeffersonFormat HardbackPage Count 744Imprint Princeton University PressPublisher...

This volume brings Jefferson back to the U.S. from France, to become the first American Secretary of State, and marks the beginning of Jefferson's work in the Cabinet with Alexander Hamilton.Book InformationISBN 9780691045481Author Thomas JeffersonFormat...

This volume finds Thomas Jefferson grappling with problems arising from the radicalization of the French Revolution in Europe and the polarization of domestic politics in the United States. The overthrow of the French monarchy leads the Secretary of...

The first person of color to serve as vice president, Charles Curtis was once a household name but has become a footnote in American history. As a mixed-race person who became a public figure in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, his story is...

From Rhodes Scholar to union leader to political powerhouse: how Bobbie became Bob, the iconic PM. The new biography from award-winning historian David Day sheds fresh light on the formative years of Australia's most charismatic leader, who became a...

*THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'Enticingly structured... Commendable... The menu is well known, but is deliciously seasoned all the same.' The Times[A] forensic and eloquent evisceration of Truss's chaotic and catastrophic 49 days in No 10'...

The description for this book, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 7: March 1784 to February 1785, will be forthcoming.Book InformationISBN 9780691045399Author Thomas JeffersonFormat HardbackPage Count 684Imprint Princeton University PressPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990823800Author Andrew LawtonFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc.Dimensions(mm) 228mm *...

The description for this book, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 6: May 1781 to March 1784, will be forthcoming.Book InformationISBN 9780691045382Author Thomas JeffersonFormat HardbackPage Count 730Imprint Princeton University PressPublisher...

The description for this book, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 8: February 1785 to October 1785, will be forthcoming.Book InformationISBN 9780691045405Author Thomas JeffersonFormat HardbackPage Count 724Imprint Princeton University PressPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943737680Author Lochlainn SeabrookFormat HardbackPage Count 122Imprint Sea Raven PressPublisher Sea Raven PressWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978799243Author John Locke ScrippsFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Boston Hill PressPublisher Boston Hill PressWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Rich Fritzky poses five questions to forty-five individuals who have devoted much, if not all of their lives, to Abraham Lincoln. The individuals reveal what led them to him in the first place, the conversations that they would most have liked to have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594136146Author Candice MillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 597Imprint Large Print PressPublisher Large Print PressWeight(grams) 748gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Best remembered as the man who carried the United States through a civil war and emancipated four million slaves, Abraham Lincoln has been the subject of nearly seventeen thousand books. While historians have chronicled his life and presidency, they...

Although Theodore Roosevelt has been the subject of numerous books, there has not been a single volume that traces Roosevelt's interaction with the U.S. Navy from his work as a naval historian in the 1880s through his leadership of the Navy as president...

In The Chief Justiceship of William Howard Taft, 1921-1930, Jonathan Lurie offers a comprehensive examination of the Supreme Court tenure of the only person to have held the offices of president of the United States and chief justice of the United States...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472084821Author James M. CannonFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan...

Now available in paperback, Robert F. Cross' Sailor in the White House remains one of the most interesting and intimate books about Franklin D. Roosevelt. Secret Service agents, family, and old sailing pals share stories about their days on the water...

This text examines the mystery around Warren G. Harding's death. After Harding's death a variety of attacks and unsubstantiated claims left the public with a tainted impression. This work examines the claims against this unpopular president and presents...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615621074Author Peter Hanson MichaelFormat HardbackImprint Underground Railroad Free PressPublisher Underground Railroad Free PressWeight(grams) 816g

What constitutes Lincoln's political greatness as a statesman? As a great leader, he saved the Union, presided over the end of slavery, and helped to pave the way for an interracial democracy. His great speeches provide enduring wisdom about human...

The political genius of Abraham Lincoln remains unequivocal. As a great leader, he saved the Union, presided over the end of slavery, and helped to pave the way for an interracial democracy. In his speeches and letters, he offered enduring wisdom about...

Volumes 11 and 12 cover the period from January 1787 through March 1788 and deal with Jefferson's stay in France, as American Minister there. This is a rich period of personal correspondence and important documents, revealing, particularly, Jefferson's...

This volume deals with an unusually active, dramatic period during Thomas Jefferson's tenure as Secretary of State.Book InformationISBN 9780691047393Author Thomas JeffersonFormat HardbackPage Count 720Imprint Princeton University PressPublisher Princeton...

The description for this book, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 10: June 1786 to December 1786, will be forthcoming.Book InformationISBN 9780691045429Author Thomas JeffersonFormat HardbackPage Count 694Imprint Princeton University PressPublisher...

This volume brings to a close Jefferson's increasingly stormy tenure as Secretary of State, documenting, among many things, his epochal duel with Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton over the conduct of American foreign policy. Against the background of...

The description for this book, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 5: February 1781 to May 1781, will be forthcoming.Book InformationISBN 9780691045375Author Thomas JeffersonFormat HardbackPage Count 754Imprint Princeton University PressPublisher...

The months covered by this volume illustrate the variety of topics characteristic of the Jefferson Papers. Subjects range from Jefferson's continued overseeing of the planning of the Federal District that became Washington, D.C., to his worries over his...

Volume 12 of the Secretary of State Series covers June through October 1806, during which Madison waited in vain for his diplomatic initiatives with Great Britain, Spain, and France to yield results, and received mounting evidence of Aaron Burr's...

This election year, celebrate the Democratic Party by drinking like a Democrat! Organized by president, this fun gift book is full of cocktail recipes, bar tips, and hysterical drinking anecdotes from all Democratic White House administrations. Which...

This election year, celebrate the Republican Party by drinking like a Republican! Organized by president, this fun gift book is full of cocktail recipes, bar tips, and hysterical drinking anecdotes from all Republican White House administrations. Which...

The final volume of the Presidential Series covers Madison's last ten months in office, during which he maintained a busy schedule despite taking the longest summer vacation in all his time in Washington. Foreign policy was dominated by crises with Spain...

In the two-year span covered by this volume, Washington continues to be concerned with personal and local matters - the expansion of his Mount Vernon acreage, the development of the flour and fishing industries there, and his promotion of schemes for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813942742Author James MadisonFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint University of Virginia PressPublisher University of Virginia Press

Volume 19, covering the final critical weeks of the First Congress, reveals Washington and Jefferson in the closest and most confidential relationship that existed at any time during their official careers. It opens with the proclamation announcing the...

The description for this book, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 21: Index, Vols. 1-20, will be forthcoming.Book InformationISBN 9780691046877Author Thomas JeffersonFormat HardbackPage Count 608Imprint Princeton University PressPublisher Princeton...

The description for this book, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 9: November 1785 to June 1786, will be forthcoming.Book InformationISBN 9780691045412Author Thomas JeffersonFormat HardbackPage Count 704Imprint Princeton University PressPublisher...