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Author
Language
English
Description
Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America's 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining decisions of his life while writing honestly and directly about his flaws and mistakes, as well as his accomplishments.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this travelogue, journalist Sarah Vowell explores the history of American presidential assassinations. From the Florida Keys all the way to Alaska, Vowell visits assassination sites, museums, prisons, monuments, and even a religious commune. Along the way she shares strange-but-true historical facts -- for instance, did you know that Robert Todd Lincoln, "a.k.a. Jinxy McDeath," was present at several presidential assassinations? -- and offers keen...
5) My life
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
957 pages, xlii pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
6) Grant
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
781 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself, David Remnick demonstrates how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young man created himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, then as a Harvard Law School graduate, and finally as President of the United States "By looking at Obama's political rise through the prism of our racial history, Remnick gives us...
14) Herbert Hoover
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of Herbert Hoover, thirty-first president of the United States, describing his career as mining engineer, businessman, and president during the Great Depression.
15) Andrew Johnson
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the man who became President upon the assassination of Lincoln emphasizing his turbulent White House years.
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