![]() | Churchill : A Life by Martin Gilbert
Buy used from: $8.73 A tour de force, one volume biography of one of the greatest individuals in human history.
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![]() | Truman by David McCullough
Buy new: $15.84 / Used from: $2.50 David McCullough is outstanding. Truman was a worthy subject.
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![]() | Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $2.43 Fascinating biography of one of our least known and most influential Founding Fathers. Only drawback is hero worship by the author.
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![]() | Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $8.99 Extremely interesting bio of the greatest entrepreneur in American history.
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![]() | Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $0.64 He was given the opportunity for immortality and did not squander it.
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![]() | Caesar: A Biography by Christian Meier
Buy new: $17.94 / Used from: $0.50 One of the most interesting and renowned human beings in recorded history.
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![]() | John Adams by David McCullough
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $0.28 With Washington, Hamilton and Jefferson, our most important Founding Father.
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![]() | Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw
Buy used from: $6.51 Good history of the original American capitalist and the times in which he lived.
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![]() | Peter the Great by Robert K. Massie
Buy new: $14.28 / Used from: $0.01 Fascinating ruler in an equally fascinating period.
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![]() | His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis
Buy new: $13.17 / Used from: $0.58 Very well written and entertaining biography of our nation's greatest leader. In turbulent political times, he literally held the fledgling republic together.
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![]() | Theodore Roosevelt: A Life by Nathan Miller
Buy new: $16.52 / Used from: $2.99 Our most "American" President. Denied immortality by his times, had he been President during a major war, he would likely be viewed as the greatest President ever. He is, after all, on Mt. Rushmore.
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![]() | Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
Buy new: $20.45 / Used from: $0.26 Along with Teddy Roosevelt, perhaps the most "American" of our icons.
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![]() | Eisenhower: Soldier and President (The Renowned One-Volume Life) by Stephen E. Ambrose
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $1.24 A comprehensive one volume biography dealing with the life of Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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![]() | Catherine the Great by Henri Troyat
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $0.67 Enlightening biography of a great Russian Czarina.
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![]() | Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $0.97 Purchased audiobook version. Essentially, a two part look at Einstein; one on his personal life and another on his scientific concepts (hard to envision unless your a physicist).
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![]() | Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times by H.W. Brands
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $3.12 Very good biography of "an American Original".
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![]() | Mornings On Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt by David McCullough
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $13.50 Details the early life experiences of Theodore Roosevelt.
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![]() | Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by H.W. Brands
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $5.39 A brief book on the life of Franklin Roosevelt
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![]() | Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $0.01 A very complicated individual.
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![]() | Herbert Hoover: The American Presidents Series: The 31st President, 1929-1933 by William E. Leuchtenburg
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $11.75 Brief biography of a much maligned American President.
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![]() | Thomas Jefferson by R. B. Bernstein
Buy new: $13.59 / Used from: $11.37 Very simple and basic primer on the life and accomplishments of Thomas Jefferson. At 192 pages it provides little analysis or perspective, but acts as somewhat of an antidote for the character assassination Jefferson receives in "Hamilton" and to a lesser extent "John Adams".
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![]() | John Quincy Adams (The American Presidents Series) by Robert V. Remini
Buy used from: $8.13 A very summary outline of the life and accomplishments of our sixth President.
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![]() | The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $1.29 Somewhat narrow and shallow treatment of the life of the Virgin Queen.
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![]() | Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England by Alison Weir
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $5.75 Revisionist history with the wife of Edward II as the subject.
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![]() | Ivan the Terrible by Professor Isabel de Madariaga
Buy used from: $1.30 Interesting topic and period, however written in the style of a textbook.
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