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To Rescue the American Spirit: Teddy Roosevelt and the Birth of a Superpower
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland
To Rescue the Constitution: George Washington and the Fragile American Experiment
Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy
To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876
President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier
Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World
The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul
The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower
Reagan: His Life and Legend
An Ordinary Man:  The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford
America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War
Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America
Watergate: A New History
John Adams
Washington: A Life
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Truman
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
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  (Theodore Roosevelt, #2)
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
His Excellency: George Washington
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
Eisenhower in War and Peace
A Promised Land

Lyndon B. Johnson
Negro poverty is not white poverty. Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But there are differences - deep, corrosive, obstinate differences - radiating painful roots into the community and into the family, and the nature of the individual. These differences are not racial differences. They are solely and simply the consequence of ancient brutality, past injustice, and present prejudice.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Christopher Hitchens
During the 1992 election I concluded as early as my first visit to New Hampshire that Bill Clinton was hateful in his behavior to women, pathological as a liar, and deeply suspect when it came to money in politics. I have never had to take any of that back, whereas if you look up what most of my profession was then writing about the beefy, unscrupulous 'New Democrat,' you will be astonished at the quantity of sheer saccharine and drool. Anyway, I kept on about it even after most Republicans had ...more
Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

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