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To Rescue the American Spirit: Teddy Roosevelt and the Birth of a Superpower
Reagan: His Life and Legend
A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery
The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017 - 2021
I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year
American Patriarch: The Life of George Washington
Martin Van Buren: America's First Politician
Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration
James Madison: America's First Politician
Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America
Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission
Watergate: A New History
To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876
The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance That Won the War
The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower
Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
Dinner with the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House
An Ordinary Man:  The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford
Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show
Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy
Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln
Gallop Toward the Sun: Tecumseh and Harrison's Struggle for the Destiny of a Nation
Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents
Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House
Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World
To Rescue the Constitution: George Washington and the Fragile American Experiment
President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier
Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind
The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward's Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump
Three Days at Camp David: How a Secret Meeting in 1971 Transformed the Global Economy
The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden's White House
The Highest Calling: Conversations on the American Presidency
In the Arena: Theodore Roosevelt in War, Peace, and Revolution
The Lincoln Miracle: Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History
America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War
Truman and the Bomb: The Untold Story
Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment
John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole People
Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic
The Call to Serve: The Life of an American President, George Herbert Walker Bush: A Visual Biography
Lincoln: The Fire of Genius: How Abraham Lincoln's Commitment to Science and Technology Helped Modernize America
A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism
Incomparable Grace: JFK in the Presidency
This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for American Democracy
Lincoln and the Fight for Peace
The Jazz Age President: Defending Warren G. Harding
The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul
King Richard: Nixon and Watergate — An American Tragedy
The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter
Lincoln's Mentors: The Education of a Leader

Abraham Lincoln
“ Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. ”
― Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address

“ Over and over again, we begin by looking to the president as the solution to all our problems, and we end up believing he’s the source of all our problems. If history is any guide, when Obama fails to fully heal our financial troubles, stop the oceans’ rise, and rescue us from spiritual malaise, his hope-addled rhetoric will seem all the more grating, and the public will increasingly come to see him as the source of all American woes. As his popularity dwindles, many of Obama’s supporters will v ...more ”
― Gene Healy, The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power

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