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<\/a>American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Ronald C. White<\/p>\nIn his time, Ulysses S. Grant was routinely grouped with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in the \u201cTrinity of Great American Leaders.\u201d But the battlefield commander\u2013turned\u2013commander-in-chief fell out of favor in the twentieth century. In American Ulysses, Ronald C. White argues that we need to once more revise our estimates of him in the twenty-first.<\/em><\/p>\n Based on seven years of research with primary documents\u2014some of them never examined by previous Grant scholars\u2014this is destined to become the Grant biography of our time. White, a biographer exceptionally skilled at writing momentous history from the inside out, shows Grant to be a generous, curious, introspective man and leader\u2014a willing delegator with a natural gift for managing the rampaging egos of his fellow officers. His wife, Julia Dent Grant, long marginalized in the historic record, emerges in her own right as a spirited and influential partner.<\/em><\/p>\n Grant was not only a brilliant general but also a passionate defender of equal rights in post-Civil War America. After winning election to the White House in 1868, he used the power of the federal government to battle the Ku Klux Klan. He was the first president to state that the government\u2019s policy toward American Indians was immoral, and the first ex-president to embark on a world tour, and he cemented his reputation for courage by racing against death to complete his Personal Memoirs. Published by Mark Twain, it is widely considered to be the greatest autobiography by an American leader, but its place in Grant\u2019s life story has never been fully explored\u2014until now.<\/em><\/p>\n One of those rare books that successfully recast our impression of an iconic historical figure, American Ulysses gives us a finely honed, three-dimensional portrait of Grant the man\u2014husband, father, leader, writer\u2014that should set the standard by which all future biographies of him will be measured.<\/em> – Random House<\/p>\n A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Hated and hailed, excoriated and revered, Abraham Lincoln was at the pinnacle of American power when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions bound up with money, race, identity, and faith. In him we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations.<\/em><\/p>\n At once familiar and elusive, Lincoln tends to be seen as the greatest of American presidents\u2014a remote icon\u2014or as a politician driven more by calculation than by conviction. This illuminating new portrait gives us a very human Lincoln\u2014an imperfect man whose moral antislavery commitment, essential to the story of justice in America, began as he grew up in an antislavery Baptist community; who insisted that slavery was a moral evil; and who sought, as he put it, to do right as God gave him to see the right.<\/em><\/p>\n This book tells the story of Lincoln from his birth on the Kentucky frontier in 1809 to his leadership during the Civil War to his tragic assassination in 1865: his rise, his self-education, his loves, his bouts of depression, his political failures, his deepening faith, and his persistent conviction that slavery must end. In a nation shaped by the courage of the enslaved of the era and by the brave witness of Black Americans, Lincoln\u2019s story illustrates the ways and means of politics in a democracy, the roots and durability of racism, and the capacity of conscience to shape events.<\/em> – Random House<\/p>\n This title is also available in large print and CD audiobook.<\/p>\n The gap between rich and poor has never been wider\u2026legislative stalemate paralyzes the country\u2026corporations resist federal regulations\u2026spectacular mergers produce giant companies\u2026the influence of money in politics deepens\u2026bombs explode in crowded streets\u2026small wars proliferate far from our shores\u2026a dizzying array of inventions speeds the pace of daily life.<\/em><\/p>\n These unnervingly familiar headlines serve as the backdrop for Doris Kearns Goodwin\u2019s highly anticipated The Bully Pulpit\u2014a dynamic history of the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time when the nation was coming unseamed and reform was in the air.<\/em><\/p>\n The story is told through the intense friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft\u2014a close relationship that strengthens both men before it ruptures in 1912, when they engage in a brutal fight for the presidential nomination that divides their wives, their children, and their closest friends, while crippling the progressive wing of the Republican Party, causing Democrat Woodrow Wilson to be elected, and changing the country\u2019s history.<\/em><\/p>\n The Bully Pulpit is also the story of the muckraking press, which arouses the spirit of reform that helps Roosevelt push the government to shed its laissez-faire attitude toward robber barons, corrupt politicians, and corporate exploiters of our natural resources. The muckrakers are portrayed through the greatest group of journalists ever assembled at one magazine\u2014Ida Tarbell, Ray Stannard Baker, Lincoln Steffens, and William Allen White\u2014teamed under the mercurial genius of publisher S. S. McClure.<\/em><\/p>\n Goodwin\u2019s narrative is founded upon a wealth of primary materials. The correspondence of more than four hundred letters between Roosevelt and Taft begins in their early thirties and ends only months before Roosevelt\u2019s death. Edith Roosevelt and Nellie Taft kept diaries. The muckrakers wrote hundreds of letters to one another, kept journals, and wrote their memoirs. The letters of Captain Archie Butt, who served as a personal aide to both Roosevelt and Taft, provide an intimate view of both men.<\/em><\/p>\n The Bully Pulpit, like Goodwin\u2019s brilliant chronicles of the Civil War and World War II, exquisitely demonstrates her distinctive ability to combine scholarly rigor with accessibility. It is a major work of history\u2014an examination of leadership in a rare moment of activism and reform that brought the country closer to its founding ideals.<\/em> – Simon & Schuster<\/p>\n This title is also available in CD audiobook.<\/p>\n Ulysses S. Grant’s life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and an inept businessman, or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War. But these stereotypes don’t come close to capturing him, as Chernow shows in his masterful biography, the first to provide a complete understanding of the general and president whose fortunes rose and fell with dizzying speed and frequency.<\/em><\/p>\n Before the Civil War, Grant was flailing. His business ventures had ended dismally, and despite distinguished service in the Mexican War he ended up resigning from the army in disgrace amid recurring accusations of drunkenness. But in war, Grant began to realize his remarkable potential, soaring through the ranks of the Union army, prevailing at the battle of Shiloh and in the Vicksburg campaign, and ultimately defeating the legendary Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Along the way, Grant endeared himself to President Lincoln and became his most trusted general and the strategic genius of the war effort. Grant\u2019s military fame translated into a two-term presidency, but one plagued by corruption scandals involving his closest staff members.<\/em><\/p>\n More important, he sought freedom and justice for black Americans, working to crush the Ku Klux Klan and earning the admiration of Frederick Douglass, who called him \u201cthe vigilant, firm, impartial, and wise protector of my race.\u201d After his presidency, he was again brought low by a dashing young swindler on Wall Street, only to resuscitate his image by working with Mark Twain to publish his memoirs, which are recognized as a masterpiece of the genre.<\/em><\/p>\n With lucidity, breadth, and meticulousness, Chernow finds the threads that bind these disparate stories together, shedding new light on the man whom Walt Whitman described as \u201cnothing heroic… and yet the greatest hero.\u201d Chernow\u2019s probing portrait of Grant’s lifelong struggle with alcoholism transforms our understanding of the man at the deepest level. This is America’s greatest biographer, bringing movingly to life one of our finest but most underappreciated presidents. The definitive biography, Grant is a grand synthesis of painstaking research and literary brilliance that makes sense of all sides of Grant’s life, explaining how this simple Midwesterner could at once be so ordinary and so extraordinary.<\/em> – Penguin Press<\/p>\n This title is also available in large print.<\/p>\n The definitive biography of Herbert Hoover, one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century\u2014a wholly original account that will forever change the way Americans understand the man, his presidency, his battle against the Great Depression, and their own history.<\/em><\/p>\n An impoverished orphan who built a fortune. A great humanitarian. A president elected in a landslide and then resoundingly defeated four years later. Arguably the father of both New Deal liberalism and modern conservatism, Herbert Hoover lived one of the most extraordinary American lives of the twentieth century. Yet however astonishing, his accomplishments are often eclipsed by the perception that Hoover was inept and heartless in the face of the Great Depression.<\/em><\/p>\n Now, Kenneth Whyte vividly recreates Hoover\u2019s rich and dramatic life in all its complex glory. He follows Hoover through his Iowa boyhood, his cutthroat business career, his brilliant rescue of millions of lives during World War I and the 1927 Mississippi floods, his misconstrued presidency, his defeat at the hands of a ruthless Franklin Roosevelt, his devastating years in the political wilderness, his return to grace as Truman\u2019s emissary to help European refugees after World War II, and his final vindication in the days of Kennedy\u2019s \u201cNew Frontier.\u201d Ultimately, Whyte brings to light Hoover\u2019s complexities and contradictions\u2014his modesty and ambition, his ruthlessness and extreme generosity\u2014as well as his profound political legacy.<\/em><\/p>\n Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times is the epic, poignant story of the deprived boy who, through force of will, made himself the most accomplished figure in the land, and who experienced a range of achievements and failures unmatched by any American of his, or perhaps any, era. Here, for the first time, is the definitive biography that fully captures the colossal scale of Hoover\u2019s momentous life and volatile times.<\/em> – Vintage<\/p>\n In this definitive portrait of John Fitzgerald Kennedy\u2014one of America\u2019s most consequential and enigmatic presidents\u2014J. Randy Taraborrelli delivers a deeply researched and authoritative biography. More than the story of a presidency, this is an intimate study of a man whose public triumphs were shaped\u2014and at times overshadowed\u2014by the complex realities of his private life, from his legendary family to his marriage to Jacqueline Kennedy.<\/em><\/p>\n Drawing from hundreds of interviews conducted over twenty-five years\u2014as well as candid, first-hand oral histories from the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Presidential Library, rare internal reports from the Secret Service, detailed files from the National Archives, and intelligence documents from both the CIA and FBI. This is JFK as never before captured by history: brilliant yet fallible, revered yet human\u2014a figure whose legacy continues to shape America and the world.<\/em> – St. Martin’s Press<\/p>\n This title is also available in Playaway audiobook.<\/p>\n An intellectual biography of James Madison, arguing that he invented American politics as we know it\u202f<\/em><\/p>\n How do you solve a problem like James Madison? The fourth president is one of the most confounding figures in early American history; his political trajectory seems almost intentionally inconsistent. He was both for and against a strong federal government. He wrote about the dangers of political parties in the Federalist Papers and then helped to found the Republican Party just a few years later. This so-called Madison problem has occupied scholars for ages.\u202f<\/em><\/p>\n As Jay Cost shows in this incisive new biography, the underlying logic of Madison\u2019s seemingly mixed record comes into focus only when we understand him primarily as a working politician. Whereas other founders split their time between politics and other vocations, Madison dedicated himself singularly to the work of politics and ultimately developed it into a distinctly American idiom. He was, in short, the first American politician.\u202f<\/em> – Basic Books<\/p>\n He’s the butt of political jokes, frequently subjected to ridicule, and almost never absent a “Worst Presidents” list where he most often ends up at the bottom. Historians have labeled him the “Worst President Ever,” “Dead Last,” “Unfit,” and “Incompetent,” to name but a few. Many contemporaries were equally cruel. H. L. Mencken called him a “nitwit.” To Alice Roosevelt Longworth, he was a “slob.” Such is the current reputation of our 29th President, Warren Gamaliel Harding. In an interesting survey in 1982, which divided the scholarly respondents into “conservative” and “liberal” categories, both groups picked Harding as the worst President.<\/em><\/p>\n But historian Ryan Walters shows that Harding, a humble man from Marion, Ohio, has been unfairly remembered. He quickly fixed an economy in depression and started the boom of the Roaring Twenties, healed a nation in the throes of social disruption, and reversed America\u2019s interventionist foreign policy.<\/em> – Regnery<\/p>\n A magisterial journey through the epic life and transformative times of John Quincy Adams<\/em><\/p>\n In this masterful biography, historian Randall B. Woods peels back the many layers of John Quincy\u2019s long life, exposing a rich and complicated family saga and a political legacy that transformed the American Republic.<\/em><\/p>\n Born the first son of John and Abigail Adams, he was pressured to follow in his father\u2019s footsteps in both law and politics. His boyhood was spent amid the furor of the American Revolution, and as a teen he assisted his father on diplomatic missions in Europe, hobnobbing with monarchs and statesmen, dining with Ben Franklin, sitting by Voltaire at the opera. He received a world-class education, becoming fluent in Latin, Greek, German, and French. His astonishing intellect and poise would lead to a diplomatic career of his own, in which he\u2019d help solidify his fledgling nation\u2019s standing in the world.<\/em><\/p>\n He was intertwined with every famous American of his day, from Washington to Jefferson, Madison and Monroe, Jackson, Calhoun, Clay, and Webster. He was on stage, frequently front and center, during the Revolutionary Era, the fractious birth of American party politics, the War of 1812, the Era of Good Feelings, and the peak of Continental Expansion. It was against this backdrop that he served as an ambassador, senator, secretary of state, and, unhappily, as president. The driving force behind both the Transcontinental Treaty and the Monroe Doctrine, this champion of Manifest Destiny spent the last years of his life fighting against the annexation of Texas because it would facilitate the spread of slavery.<\/em><\/p>\n This deeply researched, brilliantly written volume delves into John Quincy\u2019s intellectual pursuits and political thought; his loving, yet at times strained, marriage to Louisa Catherine Johnson, whom he met in London; his troubling relationships with his three sons; and his fiery post-presidency rebirth in Congress as he became the chamber\u2019s most vocal opponent of slavery.<\/em> – Dutton<\/p>\n An essential re-evaluation of the complex triumphs and tragedies of Jimmy Carter\u2019s presidential legacy\u2014from the expert biographer and Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning co-author of American Prometheus<\/em><\/p>\n Four decades after Ronald Reagan\u2019s landslide win in 1980, Jimmy Carter\u2019s one-term presidency is often labeled a failure; indeed, many Americans view Carter as the only ex-president to have used the White House as a stepping-stone to greater achievements. But in retrospect the Carter political odyssey is a rich and human story, marked by both formidable accomplishments and painful political adversity. In this deeply researched, brilliantly written account, Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning biographer Kai Bird deftly unfolds the Carter saga as a tragic tipping point in American history.<\/em><\/p>\n As president, Carter was not merely an outsider; he was an outlier. He was the only president in a century to grow up in the heart of the Deep South, and his born-again Christianity made him the most openly religious president in memory. This outlier brought to the White House a rare mix of humility, candor, and unnerving self-confidence that neither Washington nor America was ready to embrace. Decades before today\u2019s public reckoning with the vast gulf between America\u2019s ethos and its actions, Carter looked out on a nation torn by race and demoralized by Watergate and Vietnam and prescribed a radical self-examination from which voters recoiled. The cost of his unshakable belief in doing the right thing would be losing his re-election bid\u2014and witnessing the ascendance of Reagan.<\/em><\/p>\n In these remarkable pages, Bird traces the arc of Carter\u2019s administration, from his aggressive domestic agenda to his controversial foreign policy record, taking readers inside the Oval Office and through Carter\u2019s battles with both a political establishment and a Washington press corps that proved as adversarial as any foreign power. Bird shows how issues still hotly debated today\u2014from national health care to growing inequality and racism to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict\u2014burned at the heart of Carter\u2019s America, and consumed a president who found a moral duty in solving them.<\/em><\/p>\n Drawing on interviews with Carter and members of his administration and recently declassified documents, Bird delivers a profound, clear-eyed evaluation of a leader whose legacy has been deeply misunderstood. The Outlier is the definitive account of an enigmatic presidency\u2014both as it really happened and as it is remembered in the American consciousness.<\/em> – Crown<\/p>\n Republican President William McKinley transformed America during his two terms as president (1897 \u2013 1901). Although he does not register large in either public memory or in historians\u2019 rankings, in this revealing account, Robert W. Merry offers \u201ca fresh twist on the old tale\u2026a valuable education on where America has been and, possibly, where it is going\u201d (The National Review).<\/em><\/p>\n McKinley settled decades of monetary controversy by taking the country to a strict gold standard; in the Spanish-American war he kicked Spain out of the Caribbean and liberated Cuba from Spain; in the Pacific he acquired Hawaii and the Philippines; he developed the doctrine of \u201cfair trade\u201d; forced the \u201cOpen Door\u201d to China; forged our \u201cspecial relationship\u201d with Great Britain. He expanded executive power and managed public opinion through his quiet manipulation of the press. McKinley paved the way for the bold and flamboyant leadership of his famous successor, Teddy Roosevelt, who built on his accomplishments (and got credit for them).<\/em><\/p>\n Merry writes movingly about McKinley\u2019s admirable personal life, from his simple Midwestern upbringing to his Civil War heroism to his brave comportment just moments before his death by assassination. \u201cAs this splendid revisionist narrative makes plain\u2026.The presidency is no job for a political amateur. Character counts, sometimes even more than charisma\u201d (The Wall Street Journal). Lively, definitive, and eye-opening, President McKinley resurrects this overlooked president and places him squarely on the list of one of the most important.<\/em> – Simon & Schuster<\/p>\n In this \u201cmonumental and impressive\u201d biography, Max Boot, the distinguished political columnist, illuminates the untold story of Ronald Reagan, revealing the man behind the mythology. Drawing on interviews with over one hundred of the fortieth president\u2019s aides, friends, and family members, as well as thousands of newly available documents, Boot provides \u201cthe best biography of Ronald Reagan to date\u201d (Robert Mann).<\/em><\/p>\n The story begins not in star-studded Hollywood but in the cradle of the Midwest, small-town Illinois, where Reagan was born in 1911 to Nelle Clyde Wilson, a devoted Disciples of Christ believer, and Jack Reagan, a struggling, alcoholic salesman. Boot vividly creates a portrait of a handsome young man, indeed a much-vaunted lifeguard, whose early successes mirrored those of Horatio Alger. And contextualizing Reagan\u2019s life against American history, Boot re-creates the world in which Reagan transitioned from local Iowa sportscaster to budding screen actor.<\/em><\/p>\n The world of Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1950s would prove significant, not only in Reagan\u2019s coming-of-age in such classics as Knute Rockne and Kings Row but during the twilight of his film career, when he played opposite a chimpanzee in Bedtime for Bonzo, and then his eventual emergence as a television host of General Electric Theater, which established his bona fides as one of the leading conservative voices of the time. Indeed, the leap to California governor in 1966 seemed almost preordained, in which Reagan became a bellwether for a nation in the throes of a generational shift.<\/em><\/p>\n Reagan\u2019s 1980 presidential election augured a shift that continues into this century. Boot writes not as a partisan but as a historian seeking to set the story straight. He explains how Reagan was an ideologue but also a supreme pragmatist who signed pro-abortion and gun control bills as governor, cut deals with Democrats in both Sacramento and Washington, and befriended Mikhail Gorbachev to end the Cold War. A master communicator, Reagan revived America\u2019s spirits after the traumas of Vietnam and Watergate. But Boot also shows how Reagan was armored in obliviousness. He traces Reagan\u2019s opposition to civil rights over forty years, reveals how he neglected the exploding AIDS epidemic, and details how America experienced a level of income inequality not seen since the Gilded Age.<\/em><\/p>\n With its revelatory insights, Reagan: His Life and Legend is no apologia, depicting a man with a good-versus-evil worldview derived from his moralistic upbringing and Hollywood westerns. Providing fresh examinations of \u201ctrickle-down economics,\u201d the Cold War\u2019s end, the Iran-Contra affair, as well as a nuanced portrait of Reagan\u2019s family, this definitive biography is as compelling a presidential biography as any in recent decades.<\/em> – Liveright<\/p>\n This magnificent biography brings vividly to life an extraordinary man and his remarkable times, giving us Thomas Jefferson the man, the politician, and the president. A Founder whose understanding of power and of human nature enabled him to move men and marshal ideas, to learn from his mistakes and to prevail, Jefferson was passionate about many things\u2014women, his family, science, architecture, gardening, Monticello, Paris, and more. He strove, despite fierce opposition, to realize his vision: the creation, survival, and success of popular government in America. <\/em><\/p>\n Drawing on archives in the United States, England, and France, as well as unpublished transcripts of Jefferson presidential papers, Jon Meacham shows us the personal Jefferson, a man of appetite, sensuality, and passion. He also presents Jefferson as the most successful political leader of the early republic, and perhaps in all American history, a leader who found the means to endure and to win. His story resonates today not least because he led his nation through ferocious partisanship amid economic change and external threats. Jefferson also embodies an eternal drama, the struggle of the leadership of a nation to achieve greatness in a difficult and confounding world.<\/em> – Random House<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Jon Meacham<\/p>\n
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<\/a>The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Doris Kearns Goodwin<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Grant<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Ron Chernow<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Kenneth Whyte<\/p>\n
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<\/a>JFK: Public, Private, Secret<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by J Randy Taraborrelli<\/p>\n
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<\/a>James Madison: American’s First Politician<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Jay Cost<\/p>\n
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<\/a>The Jazz Age President: Defending Warren G. Harding<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Ryan S. Walters<\/p>\n
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<\/a>John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole People<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Randall Woods<\/p>\n
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<\/a>The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter <\/a><\/em><\/strong>by Kai Bird<\/p>\n
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<\/a>President McKinley: Architect of the American Century<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Robert W. Merry<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Reagan: His Life and Legend<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Max Boot<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Jon Meacham<\/p>\n