Dead Presidents

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION/FOUNDING FATHERS:
1776
David McCullough
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Joseph J. Ellis
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Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America
Thomas Fleming
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The Federalist Papers
Alexander Hamilton, John Jay & James Madison
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The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
H.W. Brands
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Burr: A Novel
Gore Vidal
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Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different
Gordon S. Wood
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Founding Rivals: Madison vs. Monroe: The Bill of Rights and the Election That Saved a Nation
Chris DeRose
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The Founding Fathers Guide to the Constitution
Brion McClanahan
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Dr. Joseph Warren: The Boston Tea Party, Bunker Hill, and the Birth of American Liberty
Samuel A. Forman
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The American Turtle Submarine: The Best-Kept Secret of the American Revolution
Arthur S. Lefkowitz
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American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution
Harlow Giles Unger
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CIVIL WAR/SLAVERY
The Memoirs of William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman
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1861: The Civil War Awakening
Adam Goodheart
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The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
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Touched With Fire: Five Presidents and the Civil War Battles That Made Them
James M. Perry
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Freedom’s Cap: The United States Capitol and the Coming of the Civil War
Guy Gugliotta
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WORLD WAR II/HITLER/STALIN
Hitler: 1889-1936: Hubris
Ian Kershaw
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Hitler: 1936-1945: Nemesis
Ian Kershaw
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The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1944-1945
Ian Kershaw
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Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pope Pius XII
John Cornwell
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Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
Simon Sebag Montefiore
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CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Parting The Waters: America In The King Years, 1954-63
Taylor Branch
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Pillar of Fire: America In The King Years, 1963-65
Taylor Branch
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At Canaan’s Edge: America In The King Years, 1965-68
Taylor Branch
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Walking With The Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
John Lewis (with Michael D’Orso)
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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Clayborne Carson
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X (as told to Alex Haley)
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Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws That Changed America
Nick Kotz
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GENERAL UNITED STATES HISTORY:
Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War
T.J. Stiles
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Veeps: Profiles In Insignificance
Bill Kelter and Wayne Shellabarger
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The Commanders
Bob Woodward
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The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
Jay Winik
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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
Stephen E. Ambrose
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Nothing Like It In The World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869
Stephen E. Ambrose
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The Making of the President 1960
Theodore White
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The Making of the President 1964
Theodore White
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The Making of the President 1968
Theodore White
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The Making of the President 1972
Theodore White
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The New York Times Page One: Major Events 1900-2000 As Presented In The New York Times
The New York Times Company
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Confessions of an Economic Hitman
John Perkins
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In Harm’s Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors
Doug Stanton
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Sea of Glory: America’s Voyage of Discovery: The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
Nathaniel Philbrick
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Nathaniel Philbrick
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The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Nathaniel Philbrick
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Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors
Stephen E. Ambrose
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1812: The War That Forged a Nation
Walter R. Borneman
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Robert Kennedy: His Life
Evan Thomas
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Desperate Passage: The Donner Party’s Perilous Journey West
Ethan Rarick
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The Journals of Lewis and Clark
Meriwether Lewis/William Clark
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SEAL Target Geronimo: The Inside Story of the Mission to Kill Osama bin Laden
Chuck Pfarrer
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SEALAB: America’s Forgotten Quest to Live and Work on the Ocean Floor
Ben Hellwarth
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Then Everything Changed: Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics: JFK, RFK, Carter, Ford, Reagan
Jeff Greenfield
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Unfamiliar Fishes
Sarah Vowell
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The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle In Cesar Chavez’s Farm Worker Movement
Miriam Pawel
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A Crack In the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
Simon Winchester
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The Most Famous Man In America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
Debby Applegate
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The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream
H.W. Brands
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GENERAL WORLD HISTORY
Fidel: A Critical Portrait
Tad Szulc
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Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling
Ross King
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The Bad Popes
E.R. Chamberlin
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Villa & Zapata: The History of the Mexican Revolution
Frank McLynn
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Peter The Great: His Life and World
Robert K. Massie
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King Edward VIII
Philip Ziegler
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Fidel and Che: A Revolutionary Friendship
Simon Reid-Henry
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King•Kaiser•Tsar: Three Royal Cousins Who Led the World To War
Catrine Clay
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God Has Ninety-Nine Names: Reporting From a Militant Middle East
Judith Miller
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Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean
Alex Von Tunzelmann
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Isandlwana: How the Zulus Humbled the British Empire
Adrian Greaves
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The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World
Jay Bahadur
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Henry VIII
David Loades
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The Fourth Part of the World: An Astonishing Epic of Global Discovery, Imperial Ambition, and the Birth of America
Toby Lester
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Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
Simon Winchester
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Voltaire: A Life
Ian Davidson
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Éminence: Cardinal Richelieu and the Rise of France
Jean-Vincent Blanchard
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OTHER PERSONAL FAVORITES:
The Devil In The White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Erik Larson
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Thunderstruck
Erik Larson
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Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Erik Larson
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In The Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin
Erik Larson
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
John Berendt
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The City of Falling Angels
John Berendt
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The 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene
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The Art of Seduction
Robert Greene
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The 33 Strategies of War
Robert Greene
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The Prince and The Discourses
Niccolo Machiavelli
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford
Ron Hansen
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Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
Maryanne Wolf
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How We Decide
Jonah Lehrer
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Proust Was A Neuroscientist
Jonah Lehrer
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Malcolm Gladwell
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What The Dog Saw: And Other Adventures
Malcolm Gladwell
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Hang Time: Days and Dreams With Michael Jordan
Bob Greene
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Rebound: The Odyssey of Michael Jordan
Bob Greene
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Love In the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The General In His Labyrinth
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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A Lion’s Tale: Around the World In Spandex
Chris Jericho
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Undisputed: How To Become the World Champion In 1,372 Easy Steps
Chris Jericho
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The Gloves: A Boxing Chronicle
Robert Anasi
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Our Dumb World: The Onion’s Atlas of the Planet Earth, 73rd Edition
The Onion
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The Devil’s Dictionary
Ambrose Bierce
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The Deaths of the Popes: Comprehensive Accounts, Including Funerals, Burial Places, and Epitaphs
Wendy J. Reardon
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I Hate Your Guts
Jim Norton
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Happy Endings: The Tales of a Meaty-Breasted Zilch
Jim Norton
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Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
Cornel West
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The World’s Most Dangerous Places
Robert Young Pelton
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Fab Five: Basketball, Trash Talk, the American Dream
Mitch Albom
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More Than A Game
Phil Jackson/Charley Rosen
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The Last Season: A Team In Search of Its Soul
Phil Jackson
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Joe Louis: Hard Times Man
Randy Roberts
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Lust For Life
Irving F. Stone
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The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith
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Squids Will Be Squids: Fresh Morals, Beastly Fables
Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith
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The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero
William Kalush/Larry Sloman
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Travels With Charley: In Search of America
John Steinbeck
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Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
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Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
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Road Work: Among Tyrants, Heroes, Rogues, and Beasts
Mark Bowden
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Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle In America’s War With Militant Islam
Mark Bowden
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Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics
Anonymous (Joe Klein)
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The Secret Service: The Hidden History of an Enigmatic Agency
Philip H. Melanson/Peter F. Stevens
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The Education of Henry Adams
Henry Adams
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Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member
Sanyika Shakur (aka Monster Kody Scott)
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Blue Rage, Black Redemption
Stanley “Tookie” Williams
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Pimp: The Story of My Life
Iceberg Slim
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Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.
Luis J. Rodriguez
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Redemption
Stanley “Tookie” Williams
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The Art of Expressing the Human Body
Bruce Lee
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Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Bruce Lee
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The Rose That Grew From Concrete
Tupac Shakur
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