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Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump
The Kennedys and the Windsors
Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
An Inconvenient Widow: The Torment, Trial, and Triumph of Mary Todd Lincoln
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
To Rescue the American Spirit: Teddy Roosevelt and the Birth of a Superpower
War
Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden (Bill O'Reilly's Confronting Series)
The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy―and Why it Failed
Jackie
The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union: An Anthology
Jackie: Public, Private, Secret
The President’s Wife
American Patriarch: The Life of George Washington
Peril
Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service
Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success
All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America
Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy
Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics
Martin Van Buren: America's First Politician
The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President
Teddy and Booker T.: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality
Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II
Watergate: A New History
The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age
Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department
Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents
Reagan: His Life and Legend
Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment
The House of Lincoln
President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier
The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017 - 2021
The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul
To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876
The Presidents: 250 Years of American Political Leadership
Let Us March On
The Shadow of War: A Novel of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic
Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House
The Final Witness: A Kennedy Secret Service Agent Breaks His Silence After Sixty Years
Thomas Jefferson's Battle for Science: Bias, Truth, and a Mighty Moose!
White House by the Sea: A Century of the Kennedys at Hyannis Port
Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win
The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and The People Who Stopped It
Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America
Kennedy's Avenger: Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby
Renegades: Born in the USA
I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year
Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency
Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic That Changed History
Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show
You Can't Catch Us: Lady Bird Johnson's Trailblazing 1964 Campaign Train and the Women Who Rode with Her
Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln
In the Arena: Theodore Roosevelt in War, Peace, and Revolution
1861: The Lost Peace
Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation
America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War
White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America’s Darkest Secret
The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It
A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism
Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World
The Unexpected Abigail Adams: A Woman "Not Apt to be Intimidated"
1932: FDR, Hoover, and the Dawn of a New America
Gallop Toward the Sun: Tecumseh and Harrison's Struggle for the Destiny of a Nation
The Call to Serve: The Life of an American President, George Herbert Walker Bush: A Visual Biography
American Daughters
Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession, and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant
Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party
The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future
The Watchdog: How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win World War Two – A Harry S. Truman Book Award Winning WWII Biography
To Rescue the Constitution: George Washington and the Fragile American Experiment
Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson
An Ordinary Man:  The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford
The White House Plumbers
American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy
The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward's Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump
So Help Me God
Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted
Lincoln and the Fight for Peace
A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland
This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for American Democracy
One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General
Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln's Vital Rival
Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost
The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter
Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight
Lincoln's God: How Faith Transformed a President and a Nation
The Return: TRUMP'S BIG 2024 COMEBACK
If I Were President
Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War
Presidents at War: How World War II Shaped a Generation of Presidents, from Eisenhower and JFK through Reagan and Bush
America's Deadliest Election: The Cautionary Tale of the Most Violent Election in American History – A Gripping Narrative of a Divided Nation and the Fight for Democracy
The Highest Calling: Conversations on the American Presidency
Next Year in the White House: Barack Obama's First Presidential Seder

Angela Flournoy
“ Nakia had come across Conrad and Juanita's box of Obama family memorabilia--novelty plates, buttons, their tickets to the first inauguration--when she helped them to pack up to move back to New Jersey. A time capsule of wild hope, almost painful to look back on now. "We really thought that man was gonna be the Black Messiah or something," she said. "What a time." "Yeah, turns out he was very much not," January said. "And white people ain't been okay since. Look at them. ...more ”
― Angela Flournoy, The Wilderness

Clint   Smith
“ Just as he did during the Slavery at Monticello tour, David did not mince words. "There’s a chapter in Notes on the State of Virginia,” he said to the five of us, standing in front of the east wing of Jefferson’s manor, “that has some of the most racist things you might ever read, written by anyone, anywhere, anytime, in it. So sometimes I stop and ask myself, 'If Gettysburg had gone the wrong way, would people be quoting the Declaration of Independence or Notes on the State of Virginia?' It’s t ...more ”
― Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

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