Presidents & Heads of State

Some presidents throw out baseball's first pitch of the season. Some post picks for college basketball's March Madness. One might tweet about a football player kneeling. President Richard M. Nixon phoned Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula to suggest plays...

Robert H. Jackson was one of the giants of the Roosevelt era: an Attorney General, a still revered Supreme Court Justice and, not least important, one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's close friends and advisers. His intimate memoir of FDR, written in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806140773Author Kevin J FernlundFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812969504Author Edward G LengelFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Random House TradePublisher Random House TradeWeight(grams) 431g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857068248Author Louis Antonine Fauve De BourrienneFormat HardbackImprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 803g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981819334Author John G SotosFormat HardbackPage Count 506Imprint Mt. Vernon Book SystemsPublisher Mt. Vernon Book SystemsWeight(grams) 178g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578184647Author Larry F MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint CMM PublishingPublisher CMM PublishingWeight(grams) 581g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983576006Author Benedicte ValentinerFormat HardbackImprint Benedicte ValentinerPublisher Benedicte ValentinerWeight(grams) 794g

Setting the World Ablaze is a biographical study of George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson and their struggle to erect a new nation. The three sections of Ferling's study chronologically examine major epochs in the lives of the three men:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857068279Author Louis Antonine Fauve De BourrienneFormat PaperbackPage Count 492Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 617g

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By tracing George Washington's deliberate development from colonial planter and soldier to republican icon, Paul Longmore answers the riddle of Washington's simultaneous fame and aloofness, arriving at a portrait of Washington as a self-fashioning...

In the wake of the 2004 election, pundits were shocked at exit polling that showed that 22% of voters thought 'moral values' was the most important issue at stake. People on both sides of the political divide believed this was the key to victory for...

In the wake of the 2004 election, pundits were shocked at exit polling that showed that 22% of voters thought "moral values" was the most important issue at stake. People on both sides of the political divide believed this was the key to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996955478Author Michael HoganFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Henselstone Verlag LLCPublisher Henselstone Verlag LLCWeight(grams) 445g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981819341Author John G. SotosPage Count 820Imprint Mt. Vernon Book SystemsPublisher Mt. Vernon Book SystemsWeight(grams) 1762g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759687349Author Charles K. AkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 147g

Both Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis are locked in the American psyche as iconic symbols of victory and defeat. The author contests that these images tend to obscure the larger visions that compelled both men to pursue their policies and actions,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316544740Author Dumas MaloneFormat HardbackPage Count 484Imprint Little, Brown and CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986140129Author Julie BonettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Ei AlliancePublisher Ei AllianceWeight(grams) 68g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857068224Author Louis Antonine Fauve De BourrienneFormat HardbackPage Count 552Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 830g

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Ulysses S. Grant was responsible for orchestrating the activities of all the Union armies into a single strategy, providing the leadership that eventually doomed the Confederacy and brought about the end of the Civil War. This book documents Grant's...

This charmingly written record of the personal life of Thomas Jefferson is the work of Sarah N. Randolph, Jefferson's great-granddaughter. The volume deftly combines the graceful narrative of a ninteenth-century woman of learning, letters by Jefferson...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806164502Author Kevin J FernlundFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 245g

In an American story of enduring importance, Jimmy Carter re-creates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm, before the civil rights movement that changed it and the country. In what is sure to become a classic, Carter writes about the powerful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674864511Author Janet G VaillantFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 753g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374530020Author Gro Harlem BrundtlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 748g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780355581010Author Mehmet KarahanFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Mehmet KarahanPublisher Mehmet KarahanWeight(grams) 413g

The third volume in Dumas Malone's distinguished study of Thomas Jefferson and his time deals with one of the most fascinating and controversial periods of Jefferson's life. It includes the story of the final and most crucial phase of his secretaryship...

Ronald Reagan's story reads like a Hollywood script complete with a small-town boyhood, movie stardom, financial success, and unmatched political popularity. This book tells Reagan's true-life tale in an engaging and easily accessible manner. The...

This biography examines the life and political career of a president whose idealism and policies continue to impact the world today despite his brief time in office. John F. Kennedy is revered as one of the United States' most iconic and inspirational...

The biography of Bill Clinton as told by 169 of the friends, colleagues, and rivals who know him best Though Bill Clinton has been out of office since 2001, public fascination with him continues unabated. Many books about Clinton have been published in...

In 1784 Thomas Jefferson moved to the sophisticated and exhilarating city of Paris, where he spent the next five years as ambassador from the new United States of America. This engaging book recreates in word and illustration the atmosphere and...

James Polk was President of the United States from 1845 to 1849, a time when slavery began to dominate American politics. Polk's presidency coincided with the eruption of the territorial slavery issue, which within a few years would lead to the...

Lincoln is the single most compelling figure in our history, but also one of the most enigmatic. Was he the Great Emancipator, a man of deep convictions who ended slavery in the United States, or simply a reluctant politician compelled by the force of...

Nearly a century and a half after his death, Abraham Lincoln remains an intrinsic part of the American consciousness, yet his intentions as president and his personal character continue to stir debate. Now, in The Lincoln Enigma, Gabor Boritt invites...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375756450Author Edmund MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 912Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 754g