American Caesars: Lives of the Presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush

8 best books like American Caesars: Lives of the Presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush (Nigel Hamilton): She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth, Notes of a Native Son, Les Liaisons dangereuses, Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing, The Keys of Egypt: The Race to Crack the Hieroglyph Code, Donovan: America's Master Spy, Notes on Camp, Constellations

She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth

Author	Helen Castor
ISBN	0571237053

When Edward VI - Henry VIII’s longed-for son - died in 1553, extraordinarily, there was no one left to claim the title King of England. For the first time, all the contenders for the crown were female.

In 1553, England was about to experience the ‘monstrous regiment’ - the unnatural rule...

Notes of a Native Son

Author	James Baldwin
ISBN	0807064319

“Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.” - James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

James Baldwin was a fascinating and eloquent man, one who I would have loved to have had a conversation with....

Les Liaisons dangereuses

Author	Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
ISBN	0192838679

The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. The subject of major film and stage adaptations, the novel's prime movers, the Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil,...

Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing

Author	Robert A. Caro
ISBN	0525656340

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply revealing recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books

For the first time in his long career, Robert...

The Keys of Egypt: The Race to Crack the Hieroglyph Code

Author	Lesley Adkins
ISBN	0060953497

A man has perished; his corpse is dust,
and his people have passed from the land;
it is a book which makes him remembered
in the mouth of a speaker.
More excellent is a [papyrus] roll than a built house,
than a chapel in the west.
It is better than an established villa,
than...

Donovan: America's Master Spy

Author

Richard Dunlop

One of the most celebrated and highly decorated heroes of World War I, a noted trial lawyer, presidential adviser and emissary, and chief of America’s Office of Strategic Services during World War II, William J. Donovan was a legendary figure. Donovan, originally published in 1982, penetrates...

Notes on Camp

Author	Susan Sontag
ISBN	0241339707

'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.'

These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary sensation.

Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering...

Constellations

Author	Sinéad Gleeson
ISBN	1509892753

I have come to think of all the metal in my body as artificial stars, glistening beneath the skin, a constellation of old and new metal. A map, a tracing of connections and a guide to looking at things from different angles.

How do you tell the story of life that is no one thing? How do you tell the story...