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Lyndon B. Johnson: Man and President, Henry A. Zeiger Harry S. Truman, Margaret Truman General Ike: A Biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Alden Hatch When the Cheering Stopped: The Last Years of Woodrow Wilson, Gene Smith Grover Cleveland: The Man and the Statesman, Robert McElroy Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History, Fawn McKay Brodie Calvin Coolidge: The Man Who is President, William Allen White
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Drawing on letters, documents, and interviews with several hundred
people whose paths intersected with Clinton's at every level -- family,
friends, girlfriends, classmates, teachers, campaign workers, staff,
and associates -- Maraniss explores the evolution of the personality
whose greatest strengths are also his greatest weaknesses: his talent
for politics and careful networking, his perseverance and optimism,
his ever eagerness to please, his tendency to shade the truth, and his
insatiable appetite for life and ideas.
In this remarkable autobiography, Ronald Reagan presents a definitive
personal account of his historic presidency. With uncompromising candor,
modesty, and wit, he tells the story of his life -- public and private.
Talking
Peace From a global leader and human rights advocate whose commitment to
public service has reached from Georgia to the White House to developing
countries around the world comes a remarkable discussion of the foremost
issue of our time: peace. This book is the first by a former United
States president to address younger readers.
"This is a careful, honest & enlightening biography of Gerald
Ford by the man who served him so admirably & briefly as Press Secretary.
J.F. terHorst followed the President from the precincts of Grand Rapids
to the pardon of Richard Nixon. He explains how it all happened.."
Keeping Faith is Jimmy Carter's account of the satisfaction, frustration,
and solitude that attend the man in the Oval Office. Mr. Carter writes
candidly about the crises that confronted him during his tenure as President
of the United States and Leader of the free world, from 1977 to 1981.
This brilliant study of Washington's life and times separates fact
from fiction to present a man stripped of myth - his great and lasting
achievements all the more admirable for his human fallibility.
After three deadly years of fighting, President Abraham Lincoln had
seen a little progress in the West against the Confederacy, but in the
main theater of operations, Virginia, the lines were almost exactly
where they had been when the American Civil War started. The war was
at a stalemate with northern public support rapidly fading. Then, Lincoln
summoned General Ulysses S. Grant, victor of the Vicksburg campaign,
to come East.
Described by the Chicago Tribune as "a classic," The
Rise of Theodore Roosevelt stands as one of the greatest biographies
of our time. The publication of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
on September 14th, 2001 marks the 100th anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt
becoming president. |
Bill Clinton, forty-second president of the United States, is the
quintessential baby boomer: on the one hand blessed with a near-genius
IQ, on the other, beset by character flaws that made his presidency
a veritable soap opera of high ideals, distressing incompetence, model
financial stewardship, and domestic misbehavior. In an era of cultural
civil war, the Clinton administration fed the public an almost daily
diet of scandal and misfortune.
Former US President Richard Nixon candidly reflects on his career and
discusses such topics as the USSR, Gorbachev, secrecy, Watergate, and
more.
Willkie:
The Events he Was Part of - The Ideas he Fought For
Wendell Willkie (1892-1944) was a fascinating man who rose far above
partisan politics to act on the principals he believed in. He fought
Frankin D. Roosevelt for the Presidency of the United States in 1940,
winning 22 million votes to FDR's 27 million, then turned around and
became one of FDR's most unlikely allies...
In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous
life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often
irascible, always honest Yankee patriot -- "the colossus of independence,"
as Thomas Jefferson called him...
Washington
and his Generals "This is a careful, honest & enlightening biography of Gerald
Ford by the man who served him so admirably & briefly as Press Secretary.
J.F. terHorst followed the President from the precincts of Grand Rapids
to the pardon of Richard Nixon. He explains how it all happened.."
As Lincoln led the nation into the Civil War, managing the Union war
effort, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, winning reelection in
1864, and planning the Reconstruction of the South, he also led a private
life, defined by his close relationship with his wife and his devotion
to his children. Lincoln at Home offers a view into the life of the
family through their written correspondence.
George Bush has openly shared his private thoughts in his correspondence
throughout his life. Fortunately, since the former president does not
plan to write his autobiography, this collection of letters, diary entries,
and memos, with his accompanying commentary, will fill that void. |
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Gerald
Ford and the Future of the Presidency
Keeping
Faith
George
Washington: Man and Monument
In
the Arena
John
Adams 
