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Woodrow Wilson: World Statesman

By Kendricks A. Clements

RFK: Candid Biography of Robert F. Kennedy

By C.David Heyman

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

Lafayette: Lessons in Leadership from the Idealist General

By Marc Leepson

Andrew Jackson

By Robert V. Remini, Wesley K. Clark

The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton

By Joe Klein

C.L.R. James: A Political Biography

By Kent Worcester

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

By David Treuer

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

American Life

By Ronald Reagan

Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

By Barack Obama

Decision Points

By Bush, George W.

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.

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

By Matt Farwell, Michael Ames

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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

Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery

By Mailer, Norman

Madam Secretary: A Memoir

By Madeleine Albright, Bill Woodward

Puzzle Palace

By Bamford, James

One Minute To Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

By Michael Dobbs

The Last Brother

By Joe McGinniss

The Arrogance of Power : the Secret World of Richard Nixon / Anthony Summers ; with Robbyn Swan

By Summers, Anthony

First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies

By Kate Andersen Brower

John F. Kennedy: The Life, the Presidency, the Assassination

By David Southwell, Ian Shircore

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom

By Conrad Black

Nixon: The Invincible Quest

By Conrad Black

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz

By Erik Larson

JFK: The Life and Death of an American President: v. 1: Reckless Youth

By Nigel Hamilton

The Best Defense: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism

By Douglas Feith