A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan

5 best books like A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan (Michael Kazin): Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, The Guns of August, Lafayette, Henry Clay: The Essential American, President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman

Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush

Author

Jon Meacham

From Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham comes a sweeping yet intimate biography of George H. W. Bush. Based on rigorous research, hours of private interviews, and extraordinary access to Bush’s diaries and to his family, Destiny and Power paints a vivid and...

The Guns of August

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Barbara W. Tuchman

Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to World War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals, for the first time, just how the war started,...

Lafayette

Author	Harlow Giles Unger
ISBN	0471468851

Acclaim for Lafayette

"I found Mr. Unger's book exceptionally well done. It's an admirable account of the marquis's two revolutions-one might even say his two lives-the French and the American. It also captures the private Lafayette and his remarkable wife, Adrienne, in often moving detail."...

Henry Clay: The Essential American

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David S. Heidler

The epic life and times of one of the most important political figures in our history.
 
He was the Great Compromiser, a canny and colorful legislator and leader whose life mirrors the story of America from its founding until the eve of the Civil War. Speaker of the House, senator, secretary...

President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman

Author	William Lee Miller
ISBN	1400041031

The American president has come to be the most powerful figure in the world—and back in the nineteenth century a great man held that office. William Lee Miller’s new book closely examines that great man in that hugely important office: Abraham Lincoln as president.

Wars waged by American...