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Garry Wills

Amazon.comGarry Wills' "Negro President": Jefferson and the Slave Power , despite its title, is not a profile of the Jefferson Presidency. Rather, the book offers a richly detailed study of the United States' tragic constitutional bargain with slavery, and meanders through the lives of several key figures in antebellum American history along the way. While Thomas Jefferson does play a significant role in Wills' book, the real heroes are the relatively unknown abolitionist Timothy Pickering and,to a lesser degree, John Quincy Adams. Pickering offered a consistent voice of opposition to Jefferson's often secret campaign against Federalist power. Though he could never match Jefferson's charismatic persona, Pickering succeeded in his battle to undo Jefferson's embargo of England--an embargo that Pickering recognized as Jefferson's attempt to undermine the economic prosperity and power of the North. Pickering's ill-fated attempt to secede from the Union, while misguided, would...

Brian Thornton

Carl Bernstein

Drawing on hundreds of interviews with colleagues and friends and with unique access to campaign records, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Carl Bernstein offers a complex and nuanced portrait of one of the most controversial figures of our time: Hillary Clinton. He has given us a book that enables us, at last, to address the questions Americans are insistently - even obsessively - asking: What is her character? What is her political philosophy? Who is she? What can we expect from her?

Paul Findley

Carl Sandburg

Book Description1926. In this work we learn of Abraham Lincoln's babyhood and boyhood at Knob Creek Farm and on Little Pigeon Creek. We join in his games and his chores, see the things he uses and handles. We are taken to his life at Gentryville and on the Mississippi until the age of nineteen when he leaves home to make his fortune at New Salem. Illustrated.

James A. Rawley

Book DescriptionThe many sides of Abraham Lincoln?war leader, humorist, commander in chief, politician, and emancipator?are vividly depicted in this concise and fresh look at his presidential years. Pivotal events, decisions, and issues in Lincoln?s private and public life are scrutinized and explained clearly by noted historian James A. Rawley. During an innovative yet bloody era marked by mass communication, unheard-of national recognition and media attention, and the increasingly destructive uses of technology to wage war, Lincoln did all that he could to preserve the nation as a whole. Principles underpinning Lincoln?s actions and motivations as administrator and war leader included an abiding spirit of nationalism, which contrasted with the forces driving his immediate predecessors, and the encompassing power conferred upon him as commander in chief in wartime. Accessible and informative, Abraham Lincoln and a Nation Worth Fighting For is an engaging and...

Warren Bull

Book DescriptionAttorney Abraham Lincoln never before had to defend a case like this one. A visitor to Springfield vanishes. Then two brothers are accused of his brutal murder by their younger brother. The good citizens of Springfield seem set on a double hanging. It is up to Lincoln to save the brothers from the gallows. Abraham Lincoln for the Defense is based on an actual murder trial that so intrigued Lincoln that he was still writing about it five years later. Resolution of the case solved one mystery, but it created a greater question that, to this day, remains unanswered. The novel introduces the reader to Lincoln while he is a young attorney developing into the man who will become the great emancipator, a martyred president, and one of the most beloved figures in American history. Standing alone between the Trailor brothers and the hangman?s noose is Abraham Lincoln, for the defense.

Carl Sandburg

Book Description1926. Vol. 1 of a 2 vol. set. The author planned composing this book for nearly thirty years. He desired to make a particular portrait of Lincoln, that being a sketch of the country lawyer and prairie politician who was intimate with thesettlers of the Knox County neighborhood where the author grew up. Sandburg heard the conversations of men and women who had eaten with Lincoln, given him a bed overnight, heard his jokes and lingo, remembered his silences and his mobile face. Illustrated. Volume 2 ISBN 076614609X.

John G. Nicolay

Book DescriptionThis book brings together a few of the more important and significant passages of Lincoln?s letters, speeches, and state documents, together with firsthand observations and appraisals of the man by some of those who saw him with contemporary eyes as he moved from day to day through the varied experiences that destiny had ordained for him. The illustrations are intended to supplement and illuminate the text and are themselves contemporary historical documents.

John Wesley Hill

Book Description1920. Dr. Hill's present work brings Lincoln before us as a man, splendid in his strength of purpose, unshaken by popular clamor, humane, sympathetic, and farseeing; a man who understood and appreciated the problems of life, the passions and the weaknesses of his fellow men, strong because of his trials and triumphs; a great leader - so great as to be without jealousy; humble, because of his knowledge and experience, forgetful of self in his desire to best serve his country and mankind.

John Adams

Book DescriptionJohn Adams insisted that his was a life insignificantly lived, yet he took great pride in having played an integral role in the birth of a nation. His writings were spiced with the wit and humor of a person who took his ideas seriously but not himself. When Adams began writing early in his career, he realized, "A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man?s attention and to inflame his ambition." Through his writings, both public and private, John Adams speaks of his rise from a country lawyer to the nation?s highest office by the force of his personality. Adams on Adams is an autobiographical account of an extraordinary journey. Drawing from Adams?s own letters, diaries, notes, and autobiographies, editor Paul M. Zall creates a fresh portrait of the nation?s second president. Adams?s words reveal how a man lacking the advantages of money, connections, class, or patronage promoted American independence at home and abroad. Zall...

Edwin Emerson

Book Description1928. This work takes the reader through the life of Theodore Roosevelt and his more intriguing adventures. We see the small boy, nicknamed Teedy, in the park where he finds a gold watch lost by a Quaker lady and follow him as he returns it. We go on a buffalo hunt in the Dakota Territory and join in a wild mustang roundup. He faces a grizzly, fights in Cuba and is a member of the Rough Riders. This book tells the adventurous tales of his life. As Roosevelt once said, "Life is a great adventure and the worst of all fears is the fear of living."

Max J. Skidmore

Book Description What exactly has Bill Clinton been doing since he left office? What can he expect to accomplish? What have his predecssors in his position done? Many presidents have had enormous impacts on the course of history after their terms ended, but not until After the White House has their role been examined. Thirty-two completed their terms. Four became presidential candidates again (one was even elected), two served in Congress, one abandoned his country to accept election to the Confederate Congress, one became Chief Justice, and the most recent former president has the unique distinction of having his First Lady become a United States senator. Former presidents almost always remain influential, but their post-term activities have received little attention or scrutiny until now.

Willard Sterne Randall

Book Description From his less than auspicious start in 1755 on the Caribbean island of Nevis to his untimely death in a duel with his old enemy Aaron Burr in 1804, Alexander Hamilton, despite his short life, left a huge legacy. Orphaned at thirteen and apprenticed in a counting house, the precocious Hamilton learned principles of business that helped him create the American financial system and invent the modern corporation. But first the staunch, intrepid Hamilton served in the American Revolution, acting as General Washington's spymaster. Forging a successful legal career, Hamilton coauthored the Federalist Papers and plunged into politics. Irresistibly attractive to women, he was a man of many gifts, but he could be arrogant and was, at times, a poor judge of character. In this meticulously researched, illuminating, and lively account, Willard Sterne Randall mines the latest scholarship to provide a new perspective on Alexander Hamilton, his illegitimate...