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Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump
To Rescue the American Spirit: Teddy Roosevelt and the Birth of a Superpower
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876
American Patriarch: The Life of George Washington
Reagan: His Life and Legend
Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy
Watergate: A New History
To Rescue the Constitution: George Washington and the Fragile American Experiment
The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward's Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump
James Madison: America's First Politician
A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland
The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance That Won the War
Martin Van Buren: America's First Politician
The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower
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
Eisenhower in War and Peace
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuistonAnd They Called It Camelot by Stephanie Marie ThorntonThe Pink Suit by N.M. KelbyAmerican Princess by Stephanie Marie ThorntonWhite Houses by Amy Bloom
Presidential Families - Fiction
72 books — 18 voters
A People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnAmerica (The Book) by Jon   StewartMe Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris1776 by David McCulloughHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
The Daily Show Reading Club
379 books — 282 voters

John Adams by David McCulloughThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer1776 by David McCulloughThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Best History Books
4,101 books — 4,693 voters
American Freethought by David HoffmanJane Austen by Laura DabundoThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Five by Hallie Rubenhold
History Written by Women (Non-Fiction)
150 books — 25 voters


Abraham Lincoln
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Abraham Lincoln, Great Speeches / Abraham Lincoln: with Historical Notes by John Grafton

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

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