First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton

5 best books like First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton (David Maraniss): Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, Master of the Senate, A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House, Eisenhower: The White House Years, Robert E. Lee: A Biography

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...

Master of the Senate

Author	Robert A. Caro
ISBN	0394720954

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...

A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House

Author	Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
ISBN	1579124496

Written by one of our foremost historians and published in 1965, A Thousand Days is still considered the most complete and definitive portrait of John F. Kennedy and his administration. Handpicked by Kennedy to serve as special assistant to the president, historian and Harvard professor Arthur M....

Eisenhower: The White House Years

Author

Jim 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...

Robert E. Lee: A Biography

Author	Emory M. Thomas
ISBN	0393316319

The life of Robert E. Lee is a story not of defeat but of triumph—triumph in clearing his family name, triumph in marrying properly, triumph over the mighty Mississippi in his work as an engineer, and triumph over all other military men to become the towering figure who commanded the Confederate army...