Historians List Of Best Presidents - April 2024

Presidents of War

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From a preeminent presidential historian comes a “monumental and profoundly important” (Ron Chernow) saga of America’s wartime chief executivesBILL GATES’S SUMMER READING LISTTen years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation into conflict and mobilized their country for victory. It brings us into the room as they make the most difficult decisions that face any President, at times sending hundreds of thousands of American men and women to their deat... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307409600
• ASIN: 0307409600
• ISBN: 9780307409607
• Brand: Crown
• Manufacturer: Crown

President McKinley: Architect of the American Century

“A deft character study of a president.”—The New York Times Book Review “A valuable education on where America has been and, possibly, where it is going.”—National Review “Magisterial.”—The Christian Science Monitor In this great American story, acclaimed historian Robert Merry resurrects the presidential reputation of William McKinley, which loses out to the brilliant and flamboyant Theodore Roosevelt who succeeded him after his assassination. He portrays McKinley as a chief executive of consequence whose low place in the presidential rankings does not reflect his enduring a... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1451625448
• ASIN: 1451625448
• ISBN: 1451625448
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

This Little President: A Presidential Primer

Learn all about the US presidents with this fun and colorful board book perfect for leaders-in-training!Leading our country. Helping you and me. Keeping all fifty states safe, happy, and free. Little presidents have a great big job. Now even the youngest patriots can learn about America’s presidential history with this bright and playful board book. Highlighting ten of the most memorable presidents—and featuring all forty-four on the last page—parents and presidents-in-training alike will love sharing this fun primer full of age-appropriate facts, leadership skills, and White House his... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1481458507
• ASIN: 1481458507
• ISBN: 1481458507
• Brand: Little Simon
• Manufacturer: Little Simon

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

• ASIN: B000FBJF32
• ASIN: B000FBJF32
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Truman

The Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America’s beloved and distinguished historian.The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters—Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson—and dramatic events. In this riveting biography, acclaimed historian David McCullough not only captures the man—a more complex, info... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0671869205
• ASIN: 0671869205
• ISBN: 0671869205
• Brand: Simon & Schuster
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Raw Deal (Blu-ray) - Special Limited Edition

NOTE: THIS SPECIAL EDITION IS LIMITED TO THE FIRST 5,000 UNITS. Beautifully restored in this special edition. All Joe Sullivan wants is "a breath of fresh air." But when you're serving time in stir for robbery, fresh air is a rare commodity. That's about to change though as mob boss Rick Coyle has greased the skids inside the prison walls, so Joe can make it outside where girlfriend Pat will be waiting. But things don't exactly go as planned for the duo as car trouble during their getaway forces them to get help from the only person nearby -- strait-laced legal assistant Ann Martin, whom they ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B076DQVZMK
• UPC: 851968007262
• ASIN: B076DQVZMK
• Brand: Classicflix
• Manufacturer: Classicflix

4th of July Presidents Day T-Shirt

• ASIN: B07T947YGQ
• ASIN: B07T947YGQ
• Brand: Patriotic USA American Apparel
• Size: Male Small
• Manufacturer: Patriotic USA American Apparel

A People's History of the United States

• ASIN: B015XEWZHI
• ASIN: B015XEWZHI
• Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission

“The greatest World War II story never told” (Esquire)—an enthralling account of the heroic mission to rescue the last survivors of the Bataan Death March. On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty rugged miles to rescue 513 POWs languishing in a hellish camp, among them the last survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March. A recent prison massacre by Japanese soldiers elsewhere in the Philippines made the stakes impossibly high and left little time to plan the complex operation. In Ghost Soldiers Hampt... [Read More]

• ASIN: 038549565X
• ASIN: 038549565X
• ISBN: 038549565X
• Brand: Anchor
• Manufacturer: Anchor

The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right

A Washington Post Notable Book of the YearWarning that the Trump presidency presages America’s decline, the political commentator recounts his extraordinary journey from lifelong Republican to vehement Trump opponent.As nativism, xenophobia, vile racism, and assaults on the rule of law threaten the very fabric of our nation, The Corrosion of Conservatism presents an urgent defense of American democracy.Pronouncing Mexican immigrants to be “rapists,” Donald Trump announced his 2015 presidential bid, causing Max Boot to think he was watching a dystopian science-fiction movie. The respected... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07DP72QG9
• ASIN: B07DP72QG9
• Manufacturer: Liveright

President Carter: The White House Years

The definitive history of the Carter Administration from the man who participated in its surprising number of accomplishments―drawing on his extensive and never-before-seen notes.Stuart Eizenstat was at Jimmy Carter’s side from his political rise in Georgia through four years in the White House, where he served as Chief Domestic Policy Adviser. He was directly involved in all domestic and economic decisions as well as in many foreign policy ones. Famous for the legal pads he took to every meeting, he draws on more than 5,000 pages of notes and 350 interviews of all the major figures of the... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1250104556
• ASIN: 1250104556
• ISBN: 1250104556
• Manufacturer: Thomas Dunne Books

Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest

Considering the course his life took, one might wonder how Zachary Taylor ever came to be elected the twelfth president of the United States. According to K. Jack Bauer, Taylor "was and remains an enigma." He was a southerner who espoused many antisouthern causes, an aristocrat with a strong feeling for the common man, an energetic yet cautious and conservative soldier. Not an intellectual, Taylor showed little curiosity about the world around him. In this biography -- the most comprehensive since Holman Hamilton's two-volume work published more than thirty years ago -- Bauer offers a fresh ap... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0807118516
• ASIN: 0807118516
• ISBN: 9780807118511
• Brand: Brand: Louisiana State University Press
• Manufacturer: LSU Press

Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream: The Most Revealing Portrait of a President and Presidential Power Ever Written

Doris Kearns Goodwin's classic life of Lyndon Johnson, who presided over the Great Society, the Vietnam War, and other defining moments the tumultuous 1960s, is a monument in political biography. From the moment the author, then a young woman from Harvard, first encountered President Johnson at a White House dance in the spring of 1967, she became fascinated by the man--his character, his enormous energy and drive, and his manner of wielding these gifts in an endless pursuit of power. As a member of his White House staff, she soon became his personal confidante, and in the years before his dea... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0312060270
• ASIN: 0312060270
• ISBN: 0312060270
• Brand: St Martin s Griffin
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

The Vietnam War Almanac

The Vietnam War Almanac is a concise, one-volume reference that synthesizes the available information and presents the results in an informative, entertaining, highly readable form.

• ASIN: 0891416927
• ASIN: 0891416927
• ISBN: 0891416927
• Brand: Brand: Presidio Press
• Manufacturer: Presidio Press

The Last Lion: Volume 1: Winston Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874 - 1932

The first volume in William Manchester's masterful, magnum opus account of Winston Churchill's life. The Last Lion: Visions of Glory follows the first fifty-eight years of Churchill's life--the years that mold him into the man who will become one of the most influential politicians of the twentieth century.In this, the first volume, Manchester follows Churchill from his birth to 1932, when he began to warn against the re-militarization of Germany. Born of an American mother and the gifted but unstable son of a duke, his childhood was one of wretched neglect. He sought glory on the battlefield... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0092XHPWC
• ASIN: B0092XHPWC
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

The Presidents : Noted Historians Rank America's Best--and Worst--Chief Executives

9781541774339

• UPC: 948269529