![]() | Thomas E. Dewey and His Times by Richard Norton Smith
Buy used from: $0.01 A marvelous look at a forgotten political giant, and maybe the best governor New York State ever had.
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![]() | Mr. Republican: A Biography of Robert A. Taft by James T. Patterson
Buy used from: $8.00 My favorite political biography, an outstanding account of one of the most powerful men ever to sit in the United States Senate.
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![]() | Nixon Volume I by Stephen E. Ambrose
Buy used from: $1.29 Simply the best book written about Nixon's life and political career - an unusually balanced and fair-minded look at Nixon's first fifty years.
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![]() | The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 by William Manchester
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $3.72 Reads more like great literature than a simple biography - a larger-than-life book about a larger-than-life man.
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![]() | The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Modern Library Paperbacks) by Edmund Morris
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $0.99 Morris' biography of President Reagan may have been an abysmal failure - but this magnificent volume about Teddy Roosevelt's dramatic rise to the Presidency more than makes up for it!
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![]() | FDR: A Biography by Ted Morgan
Buy used from: $0.01 The best and most objective look yet at a devious but idealistic political leader - Morgan provides a great "warts and all" look at an enigmatic yet revolutionary American President.
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![]() | The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1) by Robert A. Caro
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $2.99 Easily the most detailed and well-researched bio of any American President's early life - a searing portrait of Lyndon Johnson which his admirers may hate but which is still highly convincing.
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![]() | Truman by David McCullough
Buy new: $15.84 / Used from: $1.81 McCullough indulges in a little too much "hero-worshiping" of Truman for my taste, but this is still the best presidential biography of the last decade.
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![]() | Coolidge: An American Enigma by Robert Sobel
Buy used from: $8.99 A fascinating look at a poorly understood and unfairly maligned man who led America through the "Roaring Twenties".
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![]() | Lee by Douglas Southall Freeman
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $9.98 My favorite bio of an American military leader; still the best presentation of Robert E Lee nearly seventy years after it was first published.
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![]() | Woodrow Wilson by August Heckscher
Buy used from: $3.74 The best one-volume bio of our most underrated "great" President; an eloquent tribute to a complex and ultimately tragic President.
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![]() | Adlai Stevenson: His Life and Legacy by Porter McKeever
Buy used from: $0.10 A moving tribute to a great hero of liberal Democrats by one of his former friends and supporters.
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![]() | Robert Kennedy and His Times by Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr.
Buy used from: $0.86 Schlesinger may have become little more than an apologist for the Kennedys, but this is still his best book on America's "Royal Family" - elegant, compassionate, and nostalgic.
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![]() | Kennedy and Nixon: The Rivalry That Shaped Postwar America by Christopher J Matthews
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.93 An entertaining look at one of the greatest political rivalries in American history - John F. Kennedy versus Richard M. Nixon (and it's fair to both sides)!
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![]() | Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union by Robert V. Remini
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $6.00 A marvelous biography of my favorite nineteenth-century politician, a sympathetic yet objective look at the "Great Compromiser" and Kentucky Gentleman who kept the Civil War at bay for thirty years.
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