 | Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives by Alan Bullock
Buy new: $18.15 / Used from: $4.11 Two of the world's most evil men in one well-written book.
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 | Years of Renewal by Henry Kissinger
Buy new: $24.08 / Used from: $0.95 There are two other lengthy volumes, "The White House Years" and "Years of Upheaval."
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 | Counsel to the President: A Memoir by Clark Clifford
Buy used from: $0.01 Advisor to every democratic president from Truman to Clinton. He also served a short stint as Secretary of Defense for Lyndon Johnson.
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 | A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $2.29 Best insights to the Kennedy white house.
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 | Kennedy by Ted Sorensen
Buy used from: $0.49 Runner-up on the subject.
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 | Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman (Oxford Paperbacks) by Alonzo L. Hamby
Buy used from: $0.61 Probably the definitive Truman bio.
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 | The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 by William Manchester
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $3.71 Also check out vol two., entitled "The Last Lion Alone, 1932-1940"
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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: $3.74 Also see "Means of Ascent" and "Master of the Senate," which are also by Robert Caro.
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 | My American Journey: An Autobiography by Colin L. Powell
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $0.01 An admirable man who worked hard for all that he's accomplished.
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 | Under Fire: An American Story by Oliver L. North
Buy used from: $0.70 This is a book worth reading.
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 | From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War by Robert M. Gates
Buy used from: $0.12 Great insights to decision making in the upper-echelons of the govt.
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 | Robert Kennedy : His Life by Evan Thomas
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $0.97 Great book on the man who should have been President.
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 | Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department by Dean Acheson
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $1.84 Not only was he present he was one of the creators.
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 | Memoirs 1925-1950 by George F. Kennan
Buy used from: $1.95 Also read volume two., 1950-1963
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 | Eisenhower: Soldier and President (The Renowned One-Volume Life) by Stephen E. Ambrose
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $1.25 Anything by Ambrose is worth reading.
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 | Patton: A Genius for War by Carlo D'este
Buy new: $16.38 / Used from: $3.02 The great fighting general.
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 | The Life of Andrew Jackson (Perennial Classics) by Robert V. Remini
Buy new: $15.39 / Used from: $1.45 And the fighting president. Anything written by Remini will be invaluable to the study of Andrew Jackson.
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 | The Coming of the New Deal (American Heritage Library) by Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr.
Buy used from: $0.37 Volume two of Schlesinger's three vol. set on the Age of Roosevelt. "The Crisis of the Old Order" and "The Politics of Upheaval" are the other two.
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 | Turmoil and Triumph My Years As Secretary of State by George P. Shultz
Buy used from: $0.01 An enormous book encompassing the foriegn policies throughout the entire Reagan administrations.
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 | The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $7.00 This book won more awards than the movie "Titanic."
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 | Napoleon on the Art of War
Buy used from: $2.68 Histories greatest military strategists.
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 | Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 by Barbara W. Tuchman
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $4.40 Great book by one of history's most eminent.
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 | Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation by Richard Norton Smith
Buy new: $12.48 / Used from: $0.01 Americas father.
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 | Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History by Fawn McKay Brodie
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $3.14 One of history's most interesting people.
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