US Politics & Presidency

David J. Bercuson / One Christmas in Washington : Churchill and Roosevelt Forge the Grand Alliance (Hardback)

 By Christmas Eve 1941 the war could hardly have been worse for Britain or the United States. The Japanese had entered the war, first bombing Pearl Harbor where they sank five US battleships; a...

David Mendell / Obama : From Promise to Power (Large Paperback)

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David Olive / An American Story : The Speeches of Barack Obama (Large Paperback)

   Barack Obama, junior senator from Illinois, first captured America's attention with his keynote address to the Democratic National Convention in 2004. Now, as presumptive Democratic...

David Remnick / The Bridge : The Life and Rise of Barack Obama

 The rise of Barack Obama is one of the great stories of this century: a defining moment for America, and one with truly global resonance. This is the book of his phenomenal journey to election,...

David Talbot / Brothers (Hardback)

 For decades, books about John or Robert Kennedy have woven either a shimmering tale of Camelot gallantry or a tawdry story of runaway ambition and reckless personal behaviour. But the real...

David Talbot / Brothers : The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years (Hardback)

 Robert F. Kennedy was the first conspiracy theorist about his brother's murder. In this astonishingly compelling and convincing new account of the Kennedy years, acclaimed journalist David...

Diana Walker / Public and Private: Twenty Years Photographing the Presidency (Coffee Table Book)

TIME magazine's award-winning photographer offers a fascinating array of 130 photographic images that provide a unique glimpse of the public and private sides of six presidential administrations,...

Donald Rumsfeld / Known and Unknown (Large Paperback)

  Few Americans have spent more time near the center of power than Donald Rumsfeld, whose widely commented-on memoir offers many previously undisclosed details about his service with four U.S...

Donald W. Shriver Jr. / Honest Patriots : Loving a Country Enough to Remember Its Misdeeds (Hardback)

In Honest Patriots , renowned public philosopher and ethicist Donald W. Shriver, Jr. argues that we must acknowledge and repent of the morally negative events in the US nation's past. The failure to...

Edward M. Kennedy / True Compass : A Memoir (Hardback)

 Edward M. Kennedy is widely regarded as one of the great Senators in the nation's history. He is also the patriarch of America's most heralded family. In this landmark autobiography, five years...

Edward M. Kennedy / True Compass: A Memoir (Hardback)

 In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senator Edward M. Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal story--of his legendary family, politics, and fifty years at the center of...

Elizabeth Drew / Showdown : The Struggle between the Gingrich Congress and the Clinton White House (Hardback)

 Showdown is the story of the most dramatic political rivalry in decades. The Democratic President, brilliant but seen as indecisive and vulnerable, is directly challenged by the equally...

Emily Jane Fox / Born Trump: Inside America's First Family (Hardback)

Who is Donald J. Trump? To truly understand America’s forty-fifth president, argues Vanity Fair journalist Emily Jane Fox, you must know his children, whose own stories provide the key to...

Eric Alterman, Mark J. Green / The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)leads America (Hardback)

   Both authors are well known and have appeared on the Today show, Larry King, Oprah, The Tonight Show, The Daily Show, Book Notes, Charlie Rose, Crossfire, Nightline, and NewsHour with...

Evan Osnos / Joe Biden : American Dreamer (Hardback)

 The new biography of President Joe Biden by National Book Award winner and New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos - A Financial Times, Guardian and Daily Express Book of the Year'A thoroughly...

Evan Osnos / Joe Biden : American Dreamer (Large Paperback)

 The new biography of President Joe Biden by National Book Award winner and New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos - A Financial Times, Guardian and Daily Express Book of the Year'A thoroughly...

Feather Schwartz Foster / Mary Lincoln's Flannel Pajamas (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

Did Mary Lincoln really wear flannel pajamas? Why was Martha Washington's "dress" turned into a pincushion? How did Julia Grant's hat show support for the Confederacy? Did Edith Wilson really track...

Frank Rich / The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth in Bush's America (Large Paperback)

Demonstrating the candor and conviction that have made him one of our most trusted and incisive public voices, The New York Times columnist Frank Rich brilliantly and meticulously illuminates the...

Fredrik Logevall / JFK - Volume One (Large Paperback)

The definitive biography of John F. Kennedy, from Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Fredrik Logevall. This is the untold story of how the rise of President Kennedy and the rise of the United...

Gail Sheehy / Hillary's Choice (Large Paperback)

Why did she stay with him? Where does she go from here? The author who revealed a generation's Passages now answers all the questions about the most talked-about First Lady in American history. In...

Garen Thomas / Yes We Can : A Biography of President Barack Obama

  In this biography, author Garen Thomas tells the fascinating story of Barack Obama: from his childhood, through his youth, his term as senator from Illinois, to his historic and...

George Beahm / Trump on Trump

 One thing you cannot deny about Donald Trump is that he speaks his mind... and the results are fascinating!Get to know how that mind works by reading his words. This is an unbiased collection...

George W. Bush / Decision Points (Hardback)

"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...

Glenn Simpson / Crime in Progress: The Secret History of the Trump-Russia Investigation (Hardback)

 The never-before-told inside story of the Steele Dossier and the Trump-Russia investigationIn the autumn of 2015, the founders of the Washington-based intelligence firm Fusion GPS, Glenn...

Harry J. Maihafer / The General and the Journalists : Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley, and Charles Dana(Large Paperback)

As both general and president, Grant felt the full power of the press. By a remarkable twist of fate, not only his wartime successes but also his peacetime failures were directly influenced by...

Harry Reid & Mark Warren / The Good Fight : Hard Lessons from Searchlight to Washington (Large Paperback)

 After a childhood of shocking poverty, Harry Reid completed law school, working as a policeman to pay his way. He faced death threats as the head of the Nevada Gaming Commission trying to clean...

Henry Hurt / Reasonable Doubt : An Investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy (Hardback)

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Hillary Rodham Clinton / Hard Choices : A Memoir (Hardback)

   HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'S INSIDE ACCOUNT OF THE CRISES, CHOICES AND CHALLENGES SHE FACED DURING HER FOUR YEARS AS AMERICA'S 67THSECRETARY OF STATE, AND HOW THOSE EXPERIENCES DRIVE HER...

Hillary Rodham Clinton / Living History

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Hillary Rodham Clinton / Living History (Hardback)

 Hillary Clinton's memoir focuses on her eight years at the White House - what she lived through, how she felt about her experiences then and now, why she made the choices she did - in short, a...

Hillary Rodham Clinton / What Happened (Hardback)

 The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller`A compelling read' - Financial Times`A sporadically absorbing, pleasingly vengeful and often darkly funny account of one woman's bid for presidential...

Huma Abedin / Both/And (Large Paperback)

In this beautifully written and propulsive memoir, Huma Abedin—Hillary Clinton’s famously private top aide and longtime adviser—emerges from the wings of American political history...

Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents V1 (Large Paperback)

This revised edition of the first volume of The Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States begins with the first inaugural address of of George Washington (1789) and concludes with...

Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson / Original Sin (Large Paperback)

Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again   Jake Tapper, Alex Thompson An explosive account of one of the most hubristic...

James Mann / Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet (Hardback)

When G.W. Bush campaigned for the White House, he was such a novice in foreign policy that he couldn't name the president of Pakistan. But he was advised by a group that called themselves the...

Jeanne Marie Laskas / To Obama: A People's History

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Jill Biden / Where the Light Enters: Building a Family Discovering Myself (Large Paperback)

   An intimate look at the love that built the Biden family and the delicate balancing act of the woman at its center. How did you get this number? Those were the first words Jill Biden...

Jodi Kantor / The Obamas

When Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, he also won a long-running debate with his wife Michelle. Contrary to her fears, politics now seemed like a worthwhile, even noble pursuit...

Joe Biden / Promise Me, Dad (Hardback)

 In November 2014, thirteen members of the Biden family gathered on Nantucket for Thanksgiving, a tradition they had been celebrating for the past forty years; it was the one constant in what...

Joe Biden / Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

 The Instant #1 New York Times BestsellerFrom President-Elect Joe Biden, Promise Me Dad is his deeply moving memoir about the year that would forever change both a family and...

Joe Biden / Promises to Keep

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Joe Biden / Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics (Large Paperback)

 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • President Joe Biden, the author of Promise Me, Dad, tells the story of his extraordinary life and career prior to his emergence as Barack...

Joe Conason & Gene Lyons / The Hunting of the President: The Ten-year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (Hardback)

Unhappy reading for Republicans or political naïfs, The Hunting of the President is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating...

Joe Conason, Gene Lyons / The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (Hardback)

  When Hillary Clinton spoke of "a vast right-wing conspiracy" determined to bring down the president, many people dismissed the idea. Yet if the first lady's accusation was exaggerated, the...

Joe Eszterhas / American Rhapsody (Hardback)

The setting . . .Washington, Hollywood, and the landscape of the American Republic.The writer . . .Joe Eszterhas, ex- Rolling Stone reporter, National Book Award nominee for Charlie Simpson's...

Joe Klein / The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton

Astute, even-handed and keenly intelligent, THE NATURAL is the only book to read if you want to understand exactly what happened during Bill Clinton's presidency, and how the decisions made...

Joe Scarborough / Rome Wasn't Burnt in a Day (Hardback)

Here's the Real Deal! The same Washington politicians who took control of Congress by promising to balance the federal budget are now bankrupting America by launching the biggest spending spree in...

John Gunther - Roosevelt in Retrospect : A Profile in History - HB - 1950

Hardcover, published by Harper & Row USA, 1950. The master of collecting, assessing and redistributing information has turned his reportorial gifts to the personality and career of a figure who...

John Heilemann , Mark Halperin / Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime (Hardback)

It’s one of the best books on politics of any kind I’ve read. For entertainment value, I put it up there with Catch 22.” —The Financial Times “It transports...

John Heilemann / Race of a Lifetime (Hardback)

 Forget everything you think you know about the making of the most powerful man on the planet. President Barack Obama's triumph was not inevitable: it was the end product of a brilliant,...

John Heilemann / Race of a Lifetime : How Obama Won the White House (Large Paperback)

   Forget everything you think you know about the making of the most powerful man on the planet. President Barack Obama's triumph was not inevitable: it was the end product of a brilliant,...

John Kerry / Every Day Is Extra (Hardback)

  The Observer Book of the Year 'The war hero, senator, secretary of state and presidential candidate has plenty to write about - and to be right about'The Guardian'Frank, thoughtful and...