Simon & Schuster
Title: TEAM OF RIVALS: THE POLITICAL GENIUS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Book Description:
Biography of Abraham Lincoln, centered on his mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation’s history. Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each of his “rivals” energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery was leading inexorably to secession and civil war. Lincoln’s understanding of human behavior and motivation enabled […]
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Title: DIPLOMACY
Author: Henry Kissinger
Book Description:
Overview of the history and an account of Henry Kissinger’s negotiations with world leaders. The author describes how the art of diplomacy has created the world in which we live, and how America’s approach to foreign affairs has always differed vastly from that of other nations.
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Title: HOW WARS END: WHY WE ALWAYS FIGHT THE LAST BATTLE: A HISTORY OF AMERICAN INTERVENTION FROM WORLD WAR I TO AFGHANISTAN
Author: Gideon Rose
Book Description:
This book recreates the choices that presidents and their advisers have confronted during the final stages of each major conflict from WWI through Iraq. The author “puts readers in the room” with U.S. officials as they make decisions that affect millions of lives and shape the modern world—seeing what they saw, hearing what they heard, […]
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Title: The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys : An American Saga
Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Book Description:
Family friend and confidant Doris Kearns Goodwin tells the story of two families whose lives shaped our times. This magnificent real-life saga reveals the ambitions that built a dynasty of American royalty–and the passions that nearly destroyed it. Soon to be an ABC-TV miniseries.
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Title: Wait Till Next Year – A Memoir
Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Book Description:
Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin’s touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball. She re-creates the postwar era, when the corner store was a place to share stories and neighborhoods were equally divided between Dodger, Giant, and Yankee […]
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Title: No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Book Description:
“No Ordinary Time” is a monumental work, a brilliantly conceived chronicle of one of the most vibrant and revolutionary periods in the history of the United States. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking number of story lines– Eleanor and Franklin’s marriage and remarkable partnership, Eleanor’s life as First Lady, […]
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