Hillary Rodham Clinton: A Woman Living History
10 best books like Hillary Rodham Clinton: A Woman Living History (Karen Blumenthal): The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler, Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam, Rhythm Ride: A Road Trip Through the Motown Sound, Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws That Affect Us Today, I Am Gandhi: A Graphic Biography of a Hero, Eyes of the World: Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the Invention of Modern Photojournalism, Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City, First Flight Around the World: The Adventures of the American Fliers Who Won the Race, Bubonic Panic: When Plague Invaded America, They Lost Their Heads!: What Happened to Washington's Teeth, Einstein's Brain, and Other Famous Body Parts
Author | John Hendrix |
ISBN | 1419728385 |
Interweaving handwritten text and art, John Hendrix tells the story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his fight against the oppression of the German people during World War II. Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian who was shocked to watch the German church embrace Hitler's agenda of hatred....
Author | Elizabeth Partridge |
ISBN | 0142423750 |
In March 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson sent troops into Vietnam. 57,939 American soldiers would be killed and seventeen years would pass before this controversial chapter of American history concluded with the dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 1982.
The history of this...
Author | Andrea Davis Pinkney |
ISBN | 1596439734 |
From award-winning author Andrea Davis Pinkney comes the story of the music that defined a generation and a movement that changed the world.
Berry Gordy began Motown in 1959 with an $800 loan from his family. He converted the garage of a residential house into a studio and recruited teenagers...
Author | Cynthia Levinson |
ISBN | 1561459453 |
Many of the political issues we struggle with today have their roots in the US Constitution.
Husband-and-wife team Cynthia and Sanford Levinson take readers back to the creation of this historic document and discuss how contemporary problems were first introduced--then they offer possible...
Author | Brad Meltzer |
ISBN | 0525552723 |
Twenty-five exceptional comic book creators join forces to share the heroic story of Gandhi in this inspiring graphic novel biography.
As a young man in India, Gandhi saw firsthand how people were treated unfairly. Refusing to accept injustice, he came up with a brilliant way to fight back...
Author | Marc Aronson |
ISBN | 0805098356 |
Robert Capa and Gerda Taro were young Jewish refugees, idealistic and in love. As photographers, they set off to capture their generation's most important struggle—the fight against Fascism. Among the first to depict modern warfare, Capa and Taro took powerful photographs of the Spanish Civil...
Author | Phillip Hoose |
ISBN | 0374306133 |
The true story of the all-black high school basketball team that broke the color barrier in segregated 1950s Indiana, masterfully told by National Book Award winner Phil Hoose.
By winning the state high school basketball championship in 1955, ten teens from an Indianapolis school meant...
Author | Tim Grove |
ISBN | 1419714821 |
A 2016 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist
In 1924 the U.S. Army sent eight young men on a bold attempt to be the first to circumnavigate the globe by flight. Men from five other countries—Great Britain, France, Portugal, Italy, and Argentina—had the same goal....
Author | Gail Jarrow |
ISBN | 1620917386 |
A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
A New York Public Library Best Book for Teens
In March 1900, San Francisco’s health department investigated a strange and horrible death in Chinatown. A man had died of bubonic plague, one of the world’s deadliest diseases. But how...
Author | Carlyn Beccia |
ISBN | 0802737455 |
From the kidnapping of Einstein's brain to the horrifying end of Louis XIV's heart, the mysteries surrounding some of history's most famous body parts range from medical to macabre. Carlyn Beccia explores the misadventures of noteworthy body parts through history and springboards to exploring...
Author | James L. Swanson |
ISBN | 0545723337 |
An astonishing account of the assassination of America's most beloved and celebrated civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, by NY Times bestselling author, James L. Swanson.
NAACP Image Award Nominee
Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year
Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book...
Author | Samantha Seiple |
ISBN | 0545708974 |
Lincoln's Spymaster tells the dangerous and action-packed adventures of Allan Pinkerton, America's first private eye and Lincoln's most trusted spymaster.
Pinkerton was just a poor immigrant barrel-maker in Illinois when he stumbled across his first case just miles from his home. His reputation...
Author | Russell Freedman |
ISBN | 0823436586 |
Was the Vietnam War a tragic mistake? Or was it, as President Ronald Reagan would claim, "a noble cause"?
In an enthralling book, Newbery Medalist Russell Freedman provides a succinct account of perhaps the most puzzling and contentious of America s wars. Describing how a superpower caught...
Author | Martin W. Sandler |
ISBN | 0802722784 |
While Americans fought for freedom and democracy abroad, fear and suspicion towards Japanese Americans swept the country after Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Culling information from extensive, previously unpublished interviews and oral histories with Japanese American survivors of...
Author | Emily Arnold McCully |
ISBN | 0547290926 |
Born in 1857 and raised in oil country, Ida M. Tarbell was one of the first investigative journalists and probably the most influential in her time. Her series of articles on the Standard Oil Trust, a complicated business empire run by John D. Rockefeller, revealed to readers the underhanded, even...
Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi
Author | Susan Goldman Rubin |
ISBN | 0823429202 |
In 1964, Mississippi civil rights groups banded together to fight Jim Crow laws in a state where only 6.4 percent of eligible black voters were registered.
Testing a bold new strategy, they recruited students from across the United States. That summer these young volunteers defied segregation...
Chocolate: Sweet Science Dark Secrets of the World's Favorite Treat
Author | Kay Frydenborg |
ISBN | 0544175662 |
Richie’s Picks: CHOCOLATE: SWEET SCIENCE AND DARK SECRETS OF THE WORLD’S FAVORITE TREAT by Kay Frydenborg, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, April 2015, 272 p., ISBN: 978-0-544-17566-2
“He came dancing across the water
With his galleons and guns
Looking for that new world
In...
In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives
Author | Kenneth C. Davis |
ISBN | 1627793119 |
Did you know that many of America’s Founding Fathers—who fought for liberty and justice for all—were slave owners?
Through the powerful stories of five enslaved people who were “owned” by four of our greatest presidents, this book helps set the record straight about the role slavery...
Victoria: Portrait of a Queen
Author | Catherine Reef |
ISBN | 0544716140 |
Catherine Reef brings history vividly to life in this sumptuously illustrated account of a confident, strong-minded, and influential woman.
Victoria woke one morning at the age of eighteen to discover that her uncle had died and she was now queen. She went on to rule for sixty-three years,...
Thomas Jefferson: President and Philosopher
Author | Jon Meacham |
ISBN | 0385387490 |
In this special illustrated edition of the #1 New York Times bestselling Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jon Meacham, young readers will learn about the life and political philosophy of one of our Founding Fathers.
Thomas Jefferson was the third president...
Unpresidented: A Biography of Donald Trump
Author | Martha Brockenbrough |
ISBN | 1250308038 |
A riveting, meticulously researched, and provocative biography of Donald J. Trump from the author of Alexander Hamilton, Revolutionary.
Born into a family of privilege and wealth, he was sent to military school at the age of 13. After an unremarkable academic career, he joined the family...
Presenting Buffalo Bill: The Man Who Invented the Wild West
Author | Candace Fleming |
ISBN | 1596437634 |
Everyone knows the name of Buffalo Bill, but few these days know what he did or, in some cases, didn't do. Was he a Pony Express rider? Did he ride with Wild Bill Hickok? Did he "scalp" countless Native Americans, or did he defend their rights?
This, the first significant biography of Buffalo Bill...
The Freedom Summer Murders
Author | Don Mitchell |
ISBN | 0545477255 |
A gripping true story of murder and the fight for civil rights and social justice in 1960s Mississppi.
On June 21, 1964, three young men were killed by the Ku Klux Klan for trying to help black Americans vote as part of the 1964 Fredom Summer registration effort in Mississippi. The disappearance and...