The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Second Edition (Yale Nota Bene) by Leonard W. Labaree $9.95
Translated into a dozen languages, printed in hundreds of editions, and read by millions of people, Franklin's autobiography has had an influence perhaps unequalled by any other book by an American writer. Written ostensibly as a letter to his son William, the autobiography offers Franklin's reflections on philosophy and religion, politics, war, education, material success and the status of...

The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Tutis Digital Publishing Pvt. Ltd. $23.11
"Excerpt from the book..."At the beginning of the twentieth century there is, strictly speaking,no frontier to the United States. At the beginning of the nineteenthcentury, the larger part of the country was frontier

Machiavelli's The Prince: Bold-faced Principles on Tactics, Power, and Politics by Rob McMahon $9.95
Machiavelli’s words are as timely today as they were when he first wrote them, more than 500 years ago. One of the most famous philosophical and political tracts ever created, The Prince maintains its power, influencing people around the world and in all walks of life. This new highlighted edition makes it even easier to glean knowledge, inspiration, and practical strategies from...

The Gettysburg Address. Abraham Lincoln (Great Ideas) by Penguin Books $11.00
The Address was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg. In just over two minutes, Lincoln invoked the principles of human equality espoused by the...

The Obamas: A Mission, a Marriage [Paperback] by Allen Lane (10 Jan 2012)
Product Description 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. Together they planned a White House life that would be as normal and sane as possible. Then they moved in. In The Obamas, Jodi Kantor takes us deep inside the White House as they...

Washington: A Life. Ron Chernow by Allen Lane $47.96
The celebrated Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of America. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life, he carries the reader through Washington's troubled boyhood, his precocious feats in the French and Indian Wars, his creation of Mount Vernon, his heroic exploits with the Continental Army, his presiding over the Constitutional Convention and his...

Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt by Wilder Publications $8.99
Theodore Roosevelt was the twenty-sixth President of the United States. A leader of the Republican Party and of the Progressive Party, he was a Governor of New York and a professional historian, naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier. He was a Progressive reformer who sought to move the dominant Republican Party into the Progressive camp. He distrusted wealthy businessmen and dissolved...

George Washington by Echo Library $9.90
A pithy portrait that dismisses the 'mass of absurdities and deliberate false inventions' of some previous accounts.

Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy by Hyperion $60.00
In 1964, Jacqueline Kennedy recorded seven historic interviews about her life with John F. Kennedy. Now, for the first time, they can be heard and read in this deluxe, illustrated book and 8-CD set. Shortly after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, with a nation deep in mourning and the world looking on in stunned disbelief, Jacqueline Kennedy found the strength to set aside her own...

Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero by Simon & Schuster $27.50
“What was he like?”Jack Kennedy said the reason people read biography is to answer that basic question. With the verve of a novelist, Chris Matthews gives us just that. We see this most beloved president in the company of friends. We see and feel him close-up, having fun and giving off that restlessness of his. We watch him navigate his life from privileged, rebellious youth to gutsy American...