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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 615 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
A critical reevaluation of the 28th president that examines his role as a principal adversary in the struggles for civil rights and women's suffrage, and finds him superbly unsuited for the historical moment at which he took office.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 446 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
The former president chronicles his post-presidential journey with personal insights, details his humanitarian work, reflects on major twenty-first-century events and highlights his enduring commitment to public service, family and democracy.
3) Grant
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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. Chernow is the first to provide a complete understanding of the general and president whose fortunes rose and fell with dizzying speed and frequency.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography telling the life story of George Washington, the leader of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, and the first president of the United States. Written in graphic-novel format.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In graphic novel format, tells the life story of President Thomas Jefferson, who authored the Declaration of Independence"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Based on a decade of research and reporting, Author in Chief tells the story of America's presidents as authors--and offers a delightful new window into the public and private lives of our highest leaders.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
349 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Obama: An Intimate Portrait Souza's photographs, with the behind-the-scenes captions and stories that accompany them, communicate the pace and power of our nation's highest office. They also reveal the spirit of the extraordinary man who became our President. We see President Obama lead our nation through monumental challenges, comfort us in calamity and loss, share in hard-won victories, and set a singular example to "be kind and be useful," as he...
10) Grover Cleveland
Author
Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xviii, 154 p. : port. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
11) Bill Clinton
Author
Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 184 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world's health, economic security, and social fabric. Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents' large, imposing house in the heart of...
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Threshold Editions hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 368 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A long-overdue biography of Grover Cleveland, the honest, principled, plain-spoken, and incorruptible twenty-second and twenty-fourth president whose country has largely forgotten him"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
105 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
An illustrated biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt that provides information on his childhood in Hyde Park, marriage to Eleanor, political career, years as president, and influence on American history.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a genre overdue for a shakeup, Alexis Coe takes a closer look at our first--and finds he's not quite the man we remember Young George Washington was raised by a struggling single mother, demanded military promotions, chased rich young women, caused an international incident, and never backed down--even when his dysentery got so bad he had to ride with a cushion on his saddle. But after he married Martha, everything changed. Washington became the...
18) James K. Polk
Author
Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
188 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
20) FDR: a biography
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
1985
Physical Desc
830 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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