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Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy―and Why it Failed
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America
Reagan: His Life and Legend
Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy
A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland
The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul
Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show
To Rescue the Constitution: George Washington and the Fragile American Experiment
Dinner with the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House
Watergate: A New History
Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier
I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year
John Adams
Washington: A Life
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Truman
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Grant
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)
Theodore Rex
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
His Excellency: George Washington
Eisenhower in War and Peace
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
A Promised Land

Abraham Lincoln
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
Abraham Lincoln

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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