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The bestselling and prize-winning study of one of the most legendary American Presidents in history, Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin is the book that inspired Barack Obama in his presidency.When Barack Obama was asked which book he could not live without in the White House, his answer was instant: Team of Rivals. This monumental and brillian...
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In this instant and tenacious New York Times bestseller, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight “offers a rare and revealing look at the notoriously media-shy man behind the swoosh” (Booklist, starred review), opening up about his company’s early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world’s most iconic, game-changing,...
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all timeDescribed 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 ...
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Ryan HolidayIt is impossible to understand the Second World War without understanding Winston Churchill, the bold British Prime Minister who showed himself to be one of the greatest statesmen any nation has ever known. This lengthy biography is a single-volume abridgment of a massive, eight-volume work that took a quarter-century to write. It covers Churchill'...
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this brilliant biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham chronicles the life of George Herbert Walker Bush.NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review - Time - NPR - St. Louis Post-DispatchDrawing on President ...
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Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for HistoryIn this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer's legacy has been ignored. He demolishes Custer's historical caricature, revealing a capable yet insecure man, intelligent yet bigoted, passionate yet self-destru...
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One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and makes public what few have known: that Robert Moses was, for almost half a century, the single most powerful man of o...
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A New York Times Top Ten Book of 2012Best Biography of 2012, National Book Critics CircleA Washington Post Notable Work of NonfictionA Best Book of the Year: The Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, St. Louis Dispatch The Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and most triumphant periods of his career—1958 to 1964....
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Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at...
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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With its first great victory in the landmark Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, the civil rights movement gained the powerful momentum it needed to sweep forward into its crucial decade, the 1960s. As voices of protest and change rose above the din of history and false promises, one voice sounded more urgently, more passion...
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The #1 New York Times bestseller, which is also a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie, has now been adapted by the author for young adults. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this riveting biography includes more than 100 black-and-white photos, as well as exclusive content, "In Conversation," with Laura Hillenbrand and Louie Zamperin...
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Napoleon by Andrew Roberts
Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith
Shirley Jackson by Ruth Franklin
Edison - A Biography by Matthew Josephson
The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro
Titan by Ron Chernow
The Accidental President by A. J. Baime
Last Train to Memphis by Peter Guralnick
Boyd by Robert Coram
Peter the Great by Robert K. Massie
Prairie Fires by CAROLINE FRASER
John Adams by John Ferling
Reagan by H. W. Brands
Updike by Adam Begley
President without a Party by Christopher J. Leahy
Radioactive by Lauren Redniss
Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Jane Sherron de Hart
Grant by Ron Chernow
The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
Educated by Tara Westover
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
The Last Lion by William Manchester
On Writing by Stephen King
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Clayborne Carson
My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
Totto-Chan by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" by Richard P. Feynman
Sam Walton by Sam Walton
Little Leaders by Vashti Harrison
How to Live by Sarah Bakewell
Buffett by Roger Lowenstein
The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin
A. Lincoln by Ronald C. White Jr.
Malala's Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai
Being Nixon by Evan Thomas
Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
The Right Word by Jen Bryant
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 by Plutarch
Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch
The Mayor of Castro Street by Randy Shilts
I am Amelia Earhart by Brad Meltzer
Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. 1 by Blanche Wiesen Cook
Wrapped in Rainbows by Valerie Boyd
The Girl Who Thought in Pictures by Julia Finley Mosca
Ida by Paula J Giddings
Leif the Lucky by Ingri d’Aulaire
Dancing Hands by Margarita Engle
Washington by James Thomas Flexner
Balderdash! by Michelle Markel
Sherman by B. H. Liddell Hart
Madame Fourcade's Secret War by Lynne Olson
The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump by Ronald J. Sider
John Quincy Adams by Harlow Giles Unger
Noah Webster and His Words by Jeri Chase Ferris
Pablo Neruda by Monica Brown
Barbara Jordan by Mary Beth Rogers
Danza! by Duncan Tonatiuh
If This Is a Man and The Truce by Primo Levi
Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty
The Choice by Dr. Edith Eva Eger
Poor Charlie's Almanack by Peter D. Kaufman
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Endurance by Alfred Lansing
Martin's Big Words by Doreen Rappaport
Master Of The Senate by Robert A. Caro
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
Women in Science by Rachel Ignotofsky
Iggy Peck, Architect by Andrea Beaty
Only the Paranoid Survive by Andrew S. Grove
The Minds of Billy Milligan by Daniel Keyes
The Center Cannot Hold by Elyn R. Saks
Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
Rebel Yell by S. C. Gwynne
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford by Jack Weatherford
Lincoln by Gore Vidal
Rosa by Nikki Giovanni
Baking with Julia by Dorie Greenspan
Dreamers by Yuyi Morales
Amazing Grace by Eric Metaxas
Separate Is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh
Until Tuesday by Luis Carlos Montalván
Soñadores by Yuyi Morales
Moses by Carole Boston Weatherford
American Ulysses by Ronald C. White