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Kenneth Ackerman

Dark Horse

Bonnie Angelo

First Mothers

Anne Applebaum

Gulag: A History

Joyce Appleby

Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans

Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof

In the Name of Sorrow and Hope

Lance Banning

The Sacred Fire of Liberty

Richard Barnet

The Rockets' Red Glare

Michael Barone

Our Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan

Lerone Bennett

Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream

P.F. Bentley

Clinton: Portrait of Victory

Michael Beschloss

The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963

Earl Black

The Vital South: How Presidents are Elected

Andrew Burstein

America's Jubilee

George H. W. Bush

A World Transformed

Carl Cannon

The Pursuit of Happiness in Times of War

James Cannon

Time and Chance: Gerald Ford's Appointment with History

Lou Cannon

President Reagan: A Role of a Lifetime, Part 1

Lou Cannon

President Reagan: A Role of a Lifetime, Part 2

Robert Caro

Means of Ascent

Betty Boyd Caroli

The Roosevelt Women

Andrew Carroll

Letters of a Nation: A Collection of Extraordinary American Letters

Jimmy Carter

Always a Reckoning and Other Poems

James Chace

1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs- The Election That Changed the Country”

Winston Churchill

The Great Republic: A History of America

Clark Clifford

Counsel to the President: A Memoir

President Bill Clinton

Between Hope & History

Eliot Cohen

Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime

Peter Collier

The Roosevelts: An American Saga

Len Colodny

Silent Coup: The Removal of a President

Elizabeth Colton

The Jackson Phenomenon

Blanche Wiesen Cook

Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 1, 1884-1933

Ann Coulter

Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right

Monica Crowley

Nixon off the Record: His Commentary on People and Politics

Mario Cuomo

Why Lincoln Matters: Today More Than Ever

Robert Dallek

Lone Star Rising

Robert Darnton

George Washington’s False Teeth

Pete Davies

American Road

John Dean

Warren G. Harding

Michael Dobbs

Saboteurs: The Nazi Raid on America

Dusko Doder

Gorbachev: Heretic in the Kremlin

David Herbert Donald

Lincoln

Maureen Dowd

Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk

Elizabeth Drew

On The Edge: The Clinton Presidency

William Duiker

Ho Chi Minh: A Life

Susan Dunn

The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America

Susan Eisenhower

Breaking Free: A Memoir of Love and Revolution

Joseph Ellis

Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams

John Ferling

Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800

Robert Ferrell

The Strange Deaths of President Harding

Wayne Fields

Union of Words: A History of Presidential Eloquence

Marlin Fitzwater

Call the Briefing!

Thomas Fleming

The New Dealers' War

Eric Foner

The Story of American Freedom

John Lewis Gaddis

Surprise, Security, and the American Experience

Leonard Garment

Crazy Rhythm

Jack Germond

Whose Broad Stripes & Bright Stars

Bill Gertz

Betrayal: How the Clinton Administration Undermined American Security

Georgie Anne Geyer

Guerrilla Prince: The Untold Story of Fidel Castro

Martin Gilbert

Churchill: A Life

Robert Gilbert

The Mortal Presidency

Doris Kearns Goodwin

No Ordinary Time

Annette Gordon-Reed

Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy

Fitzhugh Green

George Bush: An Intimate Portrait

Paul Greenberg

No Surprises: Two Decades of Clinton Watching

Jeff Greenfield

Oh, Waiter! One Order of Crow

Allen Guelzo

Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President

David Halevy

Inside the PLO

August Heckscher

Woodrow Wilson: A Biography

Hendrik Hertzberg

Politics: Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004

Barbara Hinckley

Follow the Leader: Opinion Polls and the Modern Presidents

Richard Holbrooke

To End a War

Harold Holzer

The Lincoln Douglas Debates

Ari Hoogenboom

Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior & President

James Humes

Confessions of a White House Ghostwriter

Dennis Hutchinson

The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox

H. Paul Jeffers

An Honest President: The Life & Presidencies of Grover Cleveland

Haynes Johnson

Sleepwalking Through History: America in the Reagan Years

Robert Kaiser

Why Gorbachev Happened: His Triumphs & His Failure

Zachary Karabell

The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election

Frederick Kempe

Divorcing the Dictator

Marvin Kitman

The Making of the President 1789

Phyllis Lee Levin

Edith and Woodrow: The Wilson White House

Rich Lowry

Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years

Arnold Ludwig

King of the Mountain: The Nature of Political Leadership

Margaret MacMillan

Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

Norman Mailer

Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery

David Maraniss

First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton

Fred Maroon

The Nixon Years, 1969-1974, White House to Watergate

John Marszalek

The Petticoat Affair

Jack Matlock, Jr.

Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended

Christopher Matthews

Kennedy and Nixon: The Rivalry That Shaped Postwar America

David McCullough

Truman

Forrest McDonald

The American Presidency: An Intellectual History

Jon Meacham

Franklin & Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship

Nathan Miller

Theodore Roosevelt: A Life

William Lee Miller

The Business of May Next

Susan Moeller

Shooting War

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Part 1)

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Part 2)

Edmund Morris

Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan

Roy Morris, Jr.

Fraud of the Century

Paul Nagel

John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, A Private Life

Steve Neal

Harry and Ike: The Partnership That Remade the Postwar World

Mark Neely

The Last Best Hope of Earth

Richard Nixon

Seize the Moment, Part 1

Richard Nixon

Seize the Moment, Part 2

Peggy Noonan

What I Saw at the Revolution

Michael Novak

On Two Wings: Humble Faith and Common Sense at the American Founding

Conor Cruise O'Brien

The Long Affair

Christopher Ogden

Maggie: An Intimate Portrait of a Woman in Power

Michael Oren

Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Bruce Oudes

From: The President

Rick Perlstein

Before the Storm

Geoffrey Perret

Ulysses S. Grant: Soldier & President

Mark Perry

Grant and Twain: The Story of a Friendship That Changed America

Joseph Persico

Roosevelt’s Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage

Merrill Peterson

Lincoln in American Memory

Kevin Phillips

The Politics of Rich and Poor

Matthew Pinsker

Lincoln's Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home

John Podhoretz

Hell of a Ride: Backstage at White House

Diana Preston

Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy

Dan Quayle

Standing Firm

Willard Sterne Randall

Thomas Jefferson: A Life

Eric Rauchway

Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt’s America

Richard Reeves

President Kennedy: Profile of Power

William Rehnquist

Grand Inquests

James Reston Jr

The Lone Star: The Life of John Connally

Andrew Roberts

Napoleon & Wellington

Peter Robinson

Snapshots From Hell: The Making of an MBA

Tom Rosenstiel

Strange Bedfellows

Gretchen Rubin

Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life

Bob Schieffer

The Acting President

Helmut Schmidt

Men and Powers: A political Retrospective

Robert Scigliano

The Federalist Papers

John Seigenthaler

James K. Polk

Gen. Ariel Sharon

Warrior: An Autobiography

Richard Shenkman

Presidential Ambition

Jeff Shesol

Mutual Contempt

Robert Shogan

The Riddle of Power

Philip Short

Mao: A Life

George Shultz

Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State

Gary Sick

October Surprise

Brooks Simpson

Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity

Kiron Skinner

Reagan In His Own Hand

Richard Norton Smith

Patriarch

Mary Soames

Winston & Clementine: The Personal Letters of the Churchills

Robert Sobel

Coolidge: An America Enigma

George Soros

The Bubble of American Supremacy: Correcting the Misuse of American Power

James Srodes

Franklin: The Essential Founding Father

Harold Stassen

Eisenhower: Turning the World Toward Peace

Edward Steers Jr.

Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

John Taliaferro

Great White Fathers

Philip Taubman

Secret Empire

William Taubman

Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (Part 2)

William Taubman

Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (Part 1)

Margaret Thatcher

The Downing Street Years

Patrick Tyler

A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China, An Investigative History

Steven Waldman

The Bill

Diana Walker

Public & Private: Twenty Years of Photographing the Presidency

Chris Wallace

Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage

John Wallach

Arafat: In the Eyes of the Beholder

Peter Wallner

Franklin Pierce: New Hampshire's Favorite Son

Stanley Weintraub

Disraeli: A Biography

Bernard Weisberger

America Afire

Tom Wicker

One of Us: Richard Nixon and the American Dream

Roger Wilkins

Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism

Frank Williams

Judging Lincoln

Douglas Wilson

Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln

Jay Winik

April 1865: The Month That Saved America

Stanley Wolpert

Nehru: A Tryst with Destiny

Gordon Wood

The American Revolution: A History

Alfred Zacher

Trial & Triumph

Warren Zimmermann

First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power

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