Presidents


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Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic
The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It
A Promised Land
John Adams Under Fire: The Founding Father's Fight for Justice in the Boston Massacre Murder Trial
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden
Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success
At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House
Blowback
Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass
Melania and Me
Make Russia Great Again
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
Rage
The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
John Adams
Washington: A Life
Truman
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Grant
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Rex
His Excellency: George Washington
The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America
Becoming by Michelle ObamaNo Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns GoodwinFirst Women by Kate Andersen BrowerUpstairs at the White House by J.B. WestMrs. Kennedy and Me by Clint Hill
Books By Or About First Ladies
127 books — 12 voters
John Adams by David McCulloughThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer1776 by David McCulloughThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Best History Books
3,504 books — 3,603 voters

1776 by David McCulloughAmerican Sphinx by Joseph J. EllisFounding Brothers by Joseph J. EllisWashington by Ron ChernowRevolutionary Summer by Joseph J. Ellis
U.S Revolution (nonfiction)
20 books — 7 voters
1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyCatch-22 by Joseph HellerAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best Political Novels
134 books — 217 voters



Harry Truman
I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
Harry S. Truman

Steven Lomazow
Another new and groundbreaking story in FDR Unmasked is about his highly consequential friendship with Vincent Astor, the closest with any man in his adult life. To truly understand the “real” Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the one behind his mask of deception, it is important to understand their almost brotherly relationship.
Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

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