Walters, Ryan S.

Summary: "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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery History 2022

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Dallek, Robert.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Collins 2007

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Fulsom, Don

Summary: Unbeknownst to most people even now, the election of 1968 placed the patron saint of the Mafia in the White House. In other words, Richard Nixon would go on to not only lead a criminal presidency; he would be totally indebted to our nation's top mobsters. By 1969, thanks in large part to his long-time campaign manager and political advisor Murray Chotiner, a lawyer who specialized in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press 2017

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Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

Summary: 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 personal grief for the sake of posterity and begin the task of documenting and preserving her husband's legacy. In January of 1964, she and Robert F. Kennedy approved a planned oral-history project that...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2011

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Klein, Edward

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1996

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Talbot, David

Summary: Journalist Talbot sheds a dramatic new light on the tumultuous inner life of the Kennedy presidency and its stunning aftermath. The book begins on the shattering afternoon of November 22, 1963, as a grief-stricken Robert Kennedy urgently demands answers about the assassination of his brother, then shifts back in time, revealing the shadowy conflicts that tore apart the Kennedy administration,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2007

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Andersen, Christopher P.

Summary: An account of Jack and Jackie Kennedy's final year together reveals details of their complex marriage, including rumored infidelities, the president's hidden medical problems, and the tragic death of their infant son.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Weiner, Tim.

Summary: Based largely on documents declassified only in the last few years, One Man Against the World paints a devastating portrait of a tortured yet brilliant man who led the country largely according to a deep-seated insecurity and distrust of not only his cabinet and congress, but the American population at large. In riveting, tick-tock prose, Weiner illuminates how the Vietnam War and the Watergate...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2015

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Shesol, Jeff.

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1997

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Caro, Robert A.

Summary: Examines Lyndon Johnson's volatile relationships with John and Robert Kennedy, describes JFK's assassination from Johnson's viewpoint, and recounts his accomplishments as president before they were overshadowed by the Vietnam War.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012

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Goodwin, Doris Kearns.

Summary: Explores the thirty-sixth President's background, his personal outlook and behavior, his political career, and the political system that fostered his rise.

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1991

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Shlaes, Amity.

Summary: A brilliant and provocative reexamination of America's thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge, and the decade of unparalleled growth that the nation enjoyed under his leadership.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2012

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Patterson, Robert

Contents: An officer's oath -- The finger on the nuclear trigger -- Hillary's "football" -- Fear and loathing -- National defense or social petri dish? -- CNN diplomacy -- The war on terrorism -- A time to move on -- Appendix : The dangers we still face, by Caspar Weinberger, former secretary of defense -- President Clinton foreign policy chronology, 1993-2001.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Pub. 2003

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Logevall, Fredrik

Summary: "By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power the world had ever seen, a booming American nation he had steered through some of the most perilous diplomatic standoffs of the Cold War era. Born in 1917 to a striving Irish American family that had ascended the ranks of Boston's labyrinthine political machine, Kennedy was bred for government,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020

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Updegrove, Mark K.

Summary: "Acclaimed presidential historian Mark K. Updegrove, head of the LBJ Foundation, offers an illuminating account of John F. Kennedy's brief but transformative tenure in the White House"-- Nearly sixty years after his death, JFK still holds an outsize place in the American imagination. Updegrove offers an illuminating account of John F. Kennedy's brief but transformative tenure in the White...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2022

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Dean, John W. (John Wesley)

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004

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Millard, Candice.

Summary: The true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing 1914 exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth, a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron. After his...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2005

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Perry, James M. (James Moorhead)

Summary: Examines the lives and careers of five presidents who served in the military during the Civil War, and the affect the war had on their presidency.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.73 PER

Brands, H. W.

Summary: "From master storyteller and historian H.W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II. At the height of the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman committed a gaffe that sent shock waves around the world. When asked by a reporter...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2016

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Levingston, Steven

Summary: An account of the contentious relationship between the thirty-fifth president and Martin Luther King, Jr. throughout the tumultuous early years of the civil rights movement explores their influence on one another and the important decisions that were inspired by their rivalry.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017

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Blumenthal, Sidney

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003

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Corn, David.

Summary: Based on interviews with senior administration officials and others close to the Oval Office, a political journalist presents a behind-the-scenes look at Obama's third year, documenting and evaluating the crucial decisions of the president.

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.932 COR

Harris, John F. (John Furby)

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLI