Kent, Zachary.

Summary: Traces the life of the Virginia surveyor, soldier, and plantation owner who became the first president of the United States.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Childrens Press 1986

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Smith, Jean Edward.

Summary: A peerless biographer returns with a new life of Dwight D. Eisenhower that is as full, rich, and revealing as anything ever written about America's thirty-fourth president.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012

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Kaplan, Fred M.

Summary: The inside story of the small group of soldier-scholars who changed the way the Pentagon does business and the American military fights wars, against fierce resistance from within their own ranks.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013

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Allen, Thomas B.

Summary: A biography of Revolutionary War general and first President of the United States, George Washington, focusing on his use of spies to gather intelligence that helped the colonies win the war.

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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2004

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Chernow, Ron.

Summary: In "Washington : a Life" celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation, dashing forever the stereotype of a stolid, unemotional man, and revealing an astute and surprising portrait of a canny political genius who knew how to inspire people.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2010

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Ellis, Joseph J.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2004

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Kilmeade, Brian

Summary: Another history pageturner from the authors of the #1 bestsellers George Washington's Secret Six Into this dire situation stepped Major General Andrew Jackson. A native of Tennessee who had witnessed the horrors of the Revolutionary War and Indian attacks, he was glad America had finally decided to confront repeated British aggression. But he feared that President Madison's men were overlooking...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sentinel, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017

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Philbrick, Nathaniel

Summary: In the summer of 1776, Washington's army in Brooklyn and New York City faced one of the largest invading forces ever assembled by the British Empire. After suffering a series of devastating defeats, Washington's vulnerable and dejected troops were forced to evacuate the southern tip of Manhattan Island. Three weeks later, however, near the Canadian border, one of his favorite and most talented...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Egan, Timothy.

Summary: "From the National Book Award-winning and best-selling author Timothy Egan comes the epic story of one of the most fascinating and colorful Irishman in nineteenth-century America. The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told through the improbable life of one man. A dashing young orator during the Great Famine of the 1840s, in which a million of his Irish countrymen died,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016

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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: 2016

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Chernow, Ron

Summary: "Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefeller, Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most complicated generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and inept businessman, fond of drinking to excess;...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2017

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Sheinkin, Steve.

Contents: Prologue : October 2, 1780 -- January 14, 1741 -- 1751/1762 -- 1762/1775 -- April 19/May 9, 1775 -- May 10/May 15 -- May 18/June 19, 1775 -- June 1775 -- July 1/September 18, 1775 -- September 18/October 17, 1775 -- October 19/October 29, 1775 -- October 29/November 8, 1775 -- September/November 1775 -- November 8/December 30, 1775 -- December 31, 1775 -- January 1/February 27, 1776 --...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2010

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