Great Speeches / Abraham Lincoln: with Historical Notes by John Grafton
10 best books like Great Speeches / Abraham Lincoln: with Historical Notes by John Grafton (Abraham Lincoln): The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War, Theodore Roosevelt: Letters and Speeches, The Magna Carta, Psychology: The Briefer Course, Essays on the Theory of Numbers, German Ideology, The Essential Plotinus, Beyond Peace, Abraham Lincoln: A Presidential Life, The Tempting of America
| Author | Bruce Catton |
| ISBN | 0517385562 |
I have never in my life -- to my knowledge -- actually read a coffee table book in its entirety. There's just something about them: the ... bigness ... the bulkiness ... the way the type looks engraved on the glossy white pages like something on a marble cemetery monument; I don't know but there's just something...
Theodore Roosevelt: Letters and Speeches
| Author | Theodore Roosevelt |
| ISBN | 1931082669 |
Of all the presidents this country has had, Theodore Roosevelt is perhaps the most fascinating of them all. His intellect was fierce, his passions large, and his love of country great. He could be equal part conservative and progressive, but always on the side of the people and righteousness, at least...
The Magna Carta just turned 800 years old this past June 15 as I was reminded on several websites I visit regularly, so I figured it was time to read it. It is one of those documents whose importance is impressed on people in school, but that few actually read, so I figured that the procrastination went on...
| Author | William James |
| ISBN | 0486416046 |
William James’s monumental Principles of Psychology has long been on my to-read list. But I have a nasty habit of letting books scare me; and a 1,400-page textbook from 1890 was sufficiently intimidating to make me put it off indefinitely.
To warm up to the task, I decided to read a couple...
| Author | Richard Dedekind |
| ISBN | 0486210103 |
This volume contains the two most important essays on the logical foundations of the number system by the famous German mathematician J. W. R. Dedekind. The first presents Dedekind's theory of the irrational number-the Dedekind cut idea-perhaps the most famous of several such theories created in...
| Author | Karl Marx |
| ISBN | 0717803015 |
2011 Reprint of 1939 Edition. Parts I & III of "The German Ideology". Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Originally published by the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow in 1939. "The German Ideology" was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels...
| Author | Plotinus |
| ISBN | 0915144093 |
Building on the teachings of Plato and with his profound impact on the Christian contemplative tradition, Plotinus is one of the most influential philosophers in the Western tradition. If you would like to begin studying Plotinus, this little book of selections translated by Elmer...
| Author | Richard M. Nixon |
| ISBN | 0679433236 |
Richard Nixon's final book, written just a month before his death in April 1994. Given the time that it was written, and also Nixon's preference for discussing foreign affairs, and his penchant for focusing on Russia, he devotes much of his time here to discuss the post Cold War world and the U.S. has a...
Abraham Lincoln: A Presidential Life
| Author | James M. McPherson |
| ISBN | 0195374525 |
Marking the two-hundredth anniversary of Lincoln's birth, this marvelous short biography by a leading historian offers an illuminating portrait of one of the giants in the American story. It is the best concise introduction to Lincoln in print, a must-have volume for anyone interested in American...
| Author | Robert H. Bork |
| ISBN | 0684843374 |
The development, over a period of thousands of years, of democracy --the idea that the people of a nation should ultimately rule themselves through laws made by elected representatives responsible to them-- has to rank as one of the major achievements of Western civilization. It's closely related...
| Author | David Herbert Donald |
| ISBN | 0375725326 |
David Herbert Donald, Lincoln biographer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, has revised and updated his classic and influential book on Lincoln and the era he dominated.
When Lincoln Reconsidered was first published it ushered in the process of rethinking the Civil War that continues to this...
| Author | Joe L. Wheeler |
| ISBN | 1416550968 |
How Lincoln's Faith Shaped His Leadership
Undoubtedly the most revered leader in American history, Abraham Lincoln has had more books written about him than all our nation's presidents put together. But for all that's been written, little has focused on his faith and how this quality shaped...
| Author | Brion T. McClanahan |
| ISBN | 1596981938 |
What Does the Constitution Really Mean?
Are liberals right when they cite the “elastic” clauses of the Constitution to justify big government? Or are conservatives right when they cite the Constitution’s explicit limits on federal power? The answer lies in a more basic question:...
| Author | Ronald C. White Jr. |
| ISBN | 0743212991 |
As the day for Lincoln's second inauguration drew near, Americans wondered what their sixteenth president would say about the Civil War. Would Lincoln guide the nation toward "Reconstruction"? What about the slaves? They had been emancipated, but what about the matter of suffrage? When Lincoln...
Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again
| Author | Donald J. Trump |
| ISBN | 1596987731 |
A New York Times bestseller!
2016 Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump has a plan to make America great again.
President Obama has been a disaster for this country. He's wrecked our economy, saddled our children with debt, and gone around the world apologizing for America--as...
| Author | Harold Holzer |
| ISBN | 0743299647 |
Winner of the Lincoln Prize
Lincoln at Cooper Union explores Lincoln's most influential and widely reported pre-presidential address -- an extraordinary appeal by the western politician to the eastern elite that propelled him toward the Republican nomination for president. Delivered...
Back in the Fight: The Explosive Memoir of a Special Operator Who Never Gave Up
| Author | Joseph Kapacziewski |
| ISBN | 1250010616 |
On October 3, 2005, Kapacziewski and his soldiers were coming to the end of their tour in Northern Iraq when their convoy was attacked by enemy fighters. A grenade fell through the gunner’s hatch and exploded, shattering Kapacziewski’s right leg below the knee, damaging his right hip, and severing...
A Patriot's Handbook: Songs, Poems, Stories, and Speeches Celebrating the Land We Love
| Author | Caroline Kennedy |
| ISBN | 1401307671 |
Now available in paperback, the New York Times bestseller. When John F. Kennedy called America "the land we love" more than 42 years ago, he was reminding us of the lofty ideals on which our country was founded. But what are those ideals, and how have Americans defined them Is America the land of George...
| Author | Bonar Menninger |
| ISBN | 0312080743 |
In 1967, a Baltimore man named Howard Donahue began investigating the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Like countless Americans, Donahue was fascinated by the events in Dallas. But what separated him from other amateur sleuths, and even the Warren Commission experts, was a lifetime's...
| Author | Nick Cook |
| ISBN | 0767906284 |
The atomic bomb was not the only project to occupy government scientists during the 1940s. Antigravity technology, originally spearheaded by scientists in Nazi Germany, was another high priority, one that still may be in effect today. Now, for the first time, an acclaimed journalist with unprecedented...
Our Last Best Chance: The Pursuit of Peace in a Time of Peril
| Author | Abdullah II of Jordan |
| ISBN | 0670021717 |
A newsbreaking memoir that tackles head-on the toughest challenge in the world today.
When a dying King Hussein shocked the world by picking his son rather than his brother, the longtime crown prince, to be the next king of Jordan, no one was more surprised than the young head of Special Operations,...
| Author | J.C. Holt |
| ISBN | 0521277787 |
This is a fully revised and extended edition of J. C. Holt's study of Magna Carta, the Great Charter, which sets the events of 1215 and the Charter itself in the context of the law, politics and administration of England and Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The author has added to the first...
