The Making of the President 1960

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  Gambler: Secrets from a Life at Risk

  NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “An insightful read…Walters is a larger-than-life character.” — Sports Illustrated * “This book is going to become the sports gambling bible…The formula’s in the book.” —Pa…

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  Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House

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  Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime

  “It’s one of the best books on politics of any kind I’ve read. For entertainment value, I put it up there with Catch 22.” —The Financial Times
  
   
  
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  American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

  The definitive biography of a larger-than-life president who defied norms, divided a nation, and changed Washington forever
  
  Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are …

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  No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II

  Winner of the Pulitzer for History, No Ordinary Time is a chronicle of one of the most vibrant & revolutionary periods in US history. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin weaves togeth…

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  Reagan: His Life and Legend

  Son of the Midwest, movie star, and mesmerizing politician—America’s fortieth president comes to three-dimensional life in this gripping and profoundly revisionist biography.
  
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  Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

  Politically insightful, Nixonland recaptures the turbulent 60s & early 70s, revealing how Dick Nixon rose from the political grave to seize and hold the presidency. Perlstein's account begins with the…

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  What It Takes: The Way to the White House

  An American Iliad in the guise of contemporary political reportage, What It Takes penetrates the mystery at the heart of all presidential campaigns: How do presumably ordinary people acquire that mixt…

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  Chances Are...

  From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a new revelation: a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship
  
  One beautiful Septe…

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  Michael Collins: The Man Who Made Ireland

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  Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

  Acclaimed historian Rick Perlstein chronicles the rise of the conservative movement in the liberal 1960s. At the heart of the story is Barry Goldwater, the renegade Republican from Arizona who loathed…

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  Citizen: My Life After the White House

  A powerful, candid, and richly detailed memoir from an American icon, revealing what life looks like after presidency: triumphs, tribulations, and all.
  
  On January 20th, 2001, after nearly thirty years …

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  The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin

  PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • Benjamin Franklin, perhaps the pivotal figure in colonial and revolutionary America, comes vividly to life in this “thorough biography of ... America’s first Renaissance man”…

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  Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency

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  The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

  Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time
  
  Described by the Chicago Tribune as "a classic," The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt stands as one of the greatest biograph…

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  The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley

  NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2022 BY THE NEW YORKER
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  Lincoln

  A masterful work by Pulitzer Prize–winning author David Herbert Donald, Lincoln is a stunning portrait of Abraham Lincoln’s life and presidency.
  
  Donald brilliantly depicts Lincoln’s gradual ascent from…

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  The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy

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  Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72

  Hilarious, terrifying, insightful, and compulsively readable, these are the articles that Hunter S. Thompson wrote for Rolling Stone magazine while covering the 1972 election campaign of President Ric…

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  The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

  Doris Kearns Goodwin, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of Team of Rivals, captures the Progressive Era through the story of the broken friendship between Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard T…

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