The author of A Child Called"It" continues his inspiring, triumphant story, showing how he overcame years of physical and emotional abuse.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
by
Roy Jenkins
Hardcover
The late British parliamentarian Roy Jenkins examines the life and character of Franklin Roosevelt, an uncommonly dextrous politician who overcame numerous setbacks and one devastating physical catastrophe.
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Rutherford B. Hayes
by
Hans Trefousse
Hardcover
Trefousse presents a generally favorable impression of the resolute Ohioan who won one of the most controversial elections in history, whom he describes as a man œacknowledged to be honest in a corrupt age.
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James K. Polk
by
John Seigenthaler
Hardcover
Recounts the unlikely rise of œYoung Hickory, the shrewd and decisive commander-in-chief who spearheaded America's westward expansion and solidified Andrew Jackson's dream of democracy and popular government.
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Thomas Jefferson
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Joyce Appleby
Hardcover
Reveals the inner radicalism of one of America's most controversial Founding Fathers, highlighting Jefferson's commitment to limiting the size of government and ridding American democracy of elitism.
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Grover Cleveland
by
Henry Graff
Hardcover
The rags-to-riches life of the original œcomeback kid, the ungainly, underestimated New Yorker whom the author describes as "the best unknown president. Traces Cleveland's ascent from the backrooms of Buffalo.
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Chester Alan Arthur
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Zachary Karabell
Hardcover
An eloquent portrait of America's most unlikely president. Catapulted into the White House after Garfield's assassination, Arthur championed reform of the same spoils system that put him on the ticket.
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John Quincy Adams
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Robert Remini
Hardcover
The pre-eminent biographer of Andrew Jackson traces the life and career of one of Old Hickory's archenemies, the inflexible and dyspeptic John Quincy Adams, in this absorbing entry in the American Presidents Series.
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John Adams
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John Diggins
Hardcover
Diggins, a distinguished student of American political and social thought, offers an excellent overview of Adams' constitutionalism, vigorously rebutting those who deem Adams a closet œmonarchist.
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Theodore Roosevelt
by
Louis Auchincloss
Hardcover
Auchincloss, whose novels have captured the lives (and foibles) of New York's upper class, returns to the subject with this striking biography of T.R., the New York patrician, reformer and self-styled Westerner.
