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Promise and Power

By D. Shapley

A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon

By Neil Sheehan

Living with Africa

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

C.L.R. James: A Political Biography

By Kent Worcester

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

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

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

By David Treuer

Passage To Juneau: A Sea and Its Meaning

By Raban, Jonathan

Barack Obama: In His Own Words

By Rogak, Lisa

The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga

By Doris Kearns Goodwin

RFK: Candid Biography of Robert F. Kennedy

By C.David Heyman