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9 best books like Andrew Jackson (Sean Wilentz): John Adams, Master of the Senate, Coolidge, Eisenhower: The White House Years, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, Andrew Johnson: A Biography, James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity, Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power, Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

John Adams
AuthorDavid McCullough
ISBN0743223136
The enthralling, often surprising story of John Adams, one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived.

In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always...
Master of the Senate
AuthorRobert A. Caro
ISBN0394720954
The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro’s life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues. Master of the Senate takes Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 through 1960, in the United States Senate. Once the most august and revered...
Coolidge
AuthorAmity Shlaes
ISBN0061967556
Calvin Coolidge, who served as president from 1923 to 1929, never rated highly in polls. The shy Vermonter, nicknamed "Silent Cal," has long been dismissed as quiet and passive. History has remembered the decade in which he served as a frivolous, extravagant period predating the Great Depression....
Eisenhower: The White House Years
AuthorJim Newton
An illuminating, clear and readable history of Eisenhower’s presidency. Newton concludes that Eisenhower was the right man for the times, rather than just an adequate caretaker, a babysitter-in-chief, or a bored, quiet old grandpa.

Newton emphasizes Eisenhower’s natural and consistent...
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
AuthorGordon S. Wood
ISBN0143035282
From the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republic and winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes comes a landmark work that rescues Benjamin Franklin from a mythology that has blinded generations of Americans to the man he really was and makes sense of aspects of his life and career...
Andrew Johnson: A Biography
AuthorHans L. Trefousse
ISBN0393317420
http://bestpresidentialbios.com/2014/...

“Andrew Johnson: A Biography” by Hans Trefousse was published in 1989. Trefousse was a historian, author and professor at Brooklyn College for several decades. He was considered a dean of the Reconstruction era and authored nearly a dozen...
James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity
AuthorHarry Ammon
ISBN0813912660
http://bestpresidentialbios.com/2013/...

“James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity” by Harry Ammon was originally published in 1971, making it the oldest of the well-read biographies of our fifth president (though this is not a particularly crowded field). Ammon is formerly...
Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power
AuthorRichard J. Carwardine
ISBN1400044561
An original and deeply insightful biography of Abraham Lincoln, already awarded the prestigious Lincoln Prize.

As a defender of national unity, a leader in war, and the emancipator of slaves, Abraham Lincoln lays ample claim to being the greatest of our presidents. But the story of his rise...
Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years
AuthorJulie Andrews Edwards
ISBN0306845989
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In this follow-up to her critically acclaimed memoir, Home, Julie Andrews shares reflections on her astonishing career, including such classics as Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, and Victor/Victoria.

In Home, the number one New York Times international...
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