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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

Under Fire: An American Story - The Explosive Autobiography of Oliver North

By North, Oliver L., Novak, WILLIAM

Maybanke Anderson: Sex, Suffrage and Social Reform: Sex, Suffrage and Social Reform

By Jan Roberts

Rommel: Battles and Campaigns

By Macksey, Kenneth

Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History

By Ted Sorensen

Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush

By Meacham, Jon

How Can One Sell the Air?

By Chief Seattle, Eli Gifford, R. Michael Cook

Churchill and Chartwell: The Untold Story of Churchill's Houses and Gardens

By Stefan Buczacki

Benjamin Silliman: A Life in the Young Republic

By Chandos Michael Brown

Leo Strauss: An Intellectual Biography

By Daniel Tanguay, Christopher Nadon

Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Theology of Resistance

By Rufus Burrow, Jr.

Taste: The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller

By Stanley Tucci

Washington's God: Religion, Liberty, and the Father of Our Country

By Michael Novak, Jana Novak

Topgun: The thrilling true story behind the action-packed classic film

By Dan Pedersen

The Soong Dynasty

By Sterling Seagrave

Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Canons)

By Barack Obama, Obama, Barack

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

By J. D. Vance

Memoirs

By Professor Mikhail Gorbachev

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

By Timothy Egan

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

By Frederick Douglass, Deborah E. McDowell

Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived

By Ralph Helfer

The Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson

By Vaughn Davis Bornet

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

By Goodwin, Doris Kearns