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Kissinger: A Biography

By Walter Isaacson

The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West

By Michelle Goldberg

In My Brother's Image: Twin Brothers Separated by Faith after the Holocaust

By Eugene L. Pogany

Confronting History: A Memoir

By George L. Mosse

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

By Harriet Jacobs

Puzzle Palace

By Bamford, James

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

By Nigel Hamilton

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

By Erik Larson

Nixon: The Invincible Quest

By Conrad Black

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom

By Conrad Black

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

By David Southwell, Ian Shircore

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

By Kate Andersen Brower

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

By Summers, Anthony

The Last Brother

By Joe McGinniss

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

By Michael Dobbs

Franklin D. Roosevelt: The New Deal and War (Lancaster Pamphlets)

By Heale, Michael J.

Obama: An Oral History

By Brian Abrams

Decision Points

By George W. Bush

Dean Acheson: The Cold War Years, 1953-71

By Douglas Brinkley

For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War

By McPherson, James M.

No Higher Honour

By Condoleezza Rice

Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century

By George Packer

The Courage of Strangers: Coming of Age With the Human Rights Movement

By Jeri Laber

Eisenhower: Soldier And President

By Stephen E. Ambrose

Martin Luther King

By Hodgson, Godfrey

The Journal of John Wesley: A Selection from Wesley's Own Account of His Life and Travels

By John Wesley, Christopher Idle

No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt - The Home Front in World War II

By Goodwin, Doris Kearns

Sex Lives of the Popes

By Nigel Cawthorne

The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero

By Timothy Egan

Ruffin

By David F. Allmendinger