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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

Abraham Lincoln
Four score 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. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is al ...more
Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address

Theodore Roosevelt
Is it only in the army in the Philippines that Americans sometimes commit deeds that cause all other Americans to regret? [Theodore Roosevelt 1901 relating reports of water torture in the Philippines to lynching in the south]
Theodore Roosevelt

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