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Passage To Juneau: A Sea and Its Meaning

By Raban, Jonathan

The Speechwriter: A Brief Education in Politics

By Barton Swaim

The Senator: My Ten Years with Ted Kennedy

By Richard E. Burke

Eisenhower: Soldier and President

By Stephen E. Ambrose

A Question of Character: John F.Kennedy in Image and Reality

By Thomas C. Reeves

I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House

By Stephanie Grisham

Young Frederick Douglass: The Slave Who Learned to Read

By Linda Walvoord Girard, Colin Bootman

Roosevelt

By Roy Jenkins, Arthur M. Schlesinger

Now You Know

By Kitty Dukakis, Jane Scovell

Rosa Parks and Her Protest for Civil Rights: 1 December 1955 (Dates with History)

By Steele, Philip

Castles Burning

By Magda Denes

Colored People: A Memoir

By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Personal Memoirs

By Ulysses S. Grant, E. B. Long

Nixon: A Life

By Jonathan Aitken

Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940–45

By Hastings, Max

Promise and Power

By D. Shapley

RFK: Candid Biography of Robert F. Kennedy

By C.David Heyman

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

By Louis Zamperini, David Rensin

Madam Secretary: A Memoir

By Madeleine Albright, Bill Woodward

Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery

By Mailer, Norman

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

By Haley, Alex, X, Malcolm, Gilroy, Paul

American Cipher: One Soldier's Nightmare in the Afghanistan War

By Matt Farwell, Michael Ames

Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown

By Henry Box Brown, Richard Newman (Fellows and Research Officer, W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, Fellows and Research Officer, Harvard University.), Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Decision Points

By Bush, George W.

Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

By Barack Obama

American Life

By Ronald Reagan

The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga

By Doris Kearns Goodwin

Lafayette: Lessons in Leadership from the Idealist General

By Marc Leepson

Andrew Jackson

By Robert V. Remini, Wesley K. Clark

Barack Obama: In His Own Words

By Rogak, Lisa