Presidents & Heads of State

Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States. Known as "Old Hickory," he was the first President who championed the rights of the 'common man'. Originally from the frontier, he was known for being rough in speech and mannerisms...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Historical Society American History Book Prize 2018 and PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography 2018. Short-listed for Los Angeles Times Book...

President Abraham Lincoln is known as the Great Emancipator, the Savior of the Union, and an American martyr to the people who read about him. But that was not how his sons knew him. Presidential historian Alan Manning invites readers to see not the...

The day was hot and sticky. The man in the rowboat was an impetuous hothead. His row across the choppy Hudson that morning led to a confrontation that has burned bright in the American mind for more than two hundred years.When the most notorious duel in...

Following his New York Times bestselling classics comes this sparkling account of the joys of sharing the simple pleasures of life from Jimmy Carter. In this wonderfully evocative volume, Jimmy Carter writes about the things that matter most, the simple...

Enjoy fascinating look at the life of this extraordinary historic figure. Beginning in the backwoods of Kentucky, Abraham Lincolns life story is toldfrom his childhood and young adulthood to becoming a businessman, soldier, surveyor, lawyer, politician,...

From teenage love to World War II to the White House--a love affair for the ages rooted in family and service. "The First Couple of the Greatest Generation, the Bushes were bright and funny, strong and devoted, loving and enduring. Here is their...

The definitive edition of Thomas Jefferson's papers from the end of his presidency until his death continues with Volume Two, which covers the period from 16 November 1809 to 11 August 1810. Both incoming and outgoing letters are included, totaling 518...

Never has there been a president less content to sit still behind a desk than Theodore Roosevelt. When we picture him, he's on horseback or standing at a cliff's edge or dressed for safari. And Roosevelt was more than just an adventurer-he was also a...

Oliver Cromwell has been both applauded and reviled and his memory invoked in periods and in countries other than his own. This complex historiography has left us today with many different versions of Cromwell as man, general and statesman of which the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807029572Author Daniel LucksFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

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...

When it comes to the Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton are generally singled out as the great minds of early America. Up until the present day, George Washington has never been taken seriously as an intellectual...

Analysis of a group of images of kingship and queenship from Anglo-Saxon England explores the implications of their focus on books, authorship and learning. Between the reign of Alfred in the late ninth century and the arrival of the Normans in 1066,...

Once a powerful figure who reversed the disintegration of China and steered the country to Allied victory in World War II, Chiang Kai-shek fled into exile following his 1949 defeat in the Chinese civil war. As attention pivoted to Mao Zedong's communist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995123021Author David CohenFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Massey University PressPublisher Massey University PressWeight(grams) 686g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652298935Author Shaul MayzlishFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 1476g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438455143Author Edward P. KohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Excelsior EditionsPublisher State University of New York PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781618933836Author Lou CannonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Time Inc Home EntertaimentPublisher Time Inc Home EntertaimentWeight(grams)...

Barack Obama: The Movement for Change tells the story of a visionary leader who refuses to be limited by America's history and determines instead to change it. His plan for change is the latest expression of a movement for justice: a movement that has...

Barack Obama: The Movement for Change tells the story of a visionary leader who refuses to be limited by America's history and determines instead to change it. His plan for change is the latest expression of a movement for justice: a movement that has...

Nelson Mandela became a legend in his own lifetime. The son of a chief, he qualified as a lawyer, then was one of the leaders of the African National Congress whose long, heroic struggle against the infamous system of Apartheid is vividly described in...

Nelson Mandela became a legend in his own lifetime. The son of a chief, he qualified as a lawyer, then was one of the leaders of the African National Congress whose long, heroic struggle against the infamous system of Apartheid is vividly described in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510760035Author Madeleine ChapmanFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493311510Author United LibraryFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint United LibraryPublisher United LibraryWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

A New York Times BestsellerTheodore Roosevelt, accidental president, and Joseph Bishop, newspaper editor, met when the future Rough Rider was police commissioner of New York City. This is the remarkable story of mutual loyalty and dedication that ranges...

When Woodrow Wilson was elected as a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church in 1897, his preacher father allegedly remarked, "I would rather that he held that position than be president of the United States." Fifteen years later he was both. Easily one...

The former special advisor and press secretary to President Ronald Reagan shares a "sentimental but often revealing...enjoyable walk down Memory Lane" (Kirkus Reviews)-told through the movies he watched with the Reagans every week at Camp David.Over the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425223482Author Thomas M. DeFrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

While revealing as history, Wasik's account about the first Republican President's launches of infrastructure shame the ignorant, obstinate, narcissist Republicans of today who wish instead to build up tyrant Trump's political infrastructure. This is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312611682Author Nelson MandelaFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780935112900Author Peter BakerFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Callaway Editions,U.S.Publisher Callaway Editions,U.S.Weight(grams) 2250gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780935112900Author Peter BakerFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Callaway Editions,U.S.Publisher Callaway Editions,U.S.Weight(grams) 2250gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947660182Author Philip LeighFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Shotwell Publishing LLCPublisher Shotwell Publishing LLCWeight(grams)...

From Abraham Lincoln's political savvy and rhetorical gifts to James Buchanan's indecisiveness, this book teaches much about what makes a great leader--and what does not.Over a period of decades, C-SPAN has surveyed leading historians on the best and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812978780Author Jonathan DarmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA Inc

As Africa and its diaspora commemorate fifty years of post-independence Pan-Africanism, this unique volume provides profound insight into the thirteen prominent individuals of African descent who have won the Nobel Peace Prize since 1950. From the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060976170Author Willard Sterne RandallFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

'In explaining the rise to power of Kim Yo Jong, Lee displays his deep knowledge and understanding of North Korea's extreme, ruthless and self-obsessed dynastic autocracy, the creators and rulers of a de-facto nuclear weapon state. Not a reassuring...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of L.A. Times Book Prize (Biography) 2001 and ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2003.Book InformationISBN 9780394555096Author Edmund MorrisFormat HardbackPage Count...