Jefferson's Secrets: Death and Desire at Monticello
8 best books like Jefferson's Secrets: Death and Desire at Monticello (Andrew Burstein): The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, Washington: A Life, Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt, Metamorphoses, Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade, Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief, Jefferson and the Rights of Man, Thomas Jefferson: A Life
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Author | Barack Obama |
ISBN | 0307237699 |
The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama's call for a new kind of politics—a politics that builds upon those shared understandings that pull us together as Americans. Lucid in his vision of America's place in the world, refreshingly candid about his family life and his time in the Senate, Obama here sets...
Author | Ron Chernow |
ISBN | 1594202664 |
The celebrated Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of America. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life, he carries the reader through Washington's troubled boyhood, his precocious feats in the French and Indian Wars, his creation of Mount Vernon, his heroic...
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt
Author | David McCullough |
ISBN | 0671447548 |
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. Hailed as a masterpiece by Newsday, it also won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography. Now with...
Prized through the ages for its splendor and its savage, sophisticated wit, The Metamorphoses is a masterpiece of Western culture--the first attempt to link all the Greek myths, before and after Homer, in a cohesive whole, to the Roman myths of Ovid's day. Horace Gregory, in this modern translation,...
Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade
When it was over, there were a lot of questions.
The detectives were embarrassed but they still wanted answered, "How did a 15-year-old runaway successfully pose as a world traveled countess?"
The newspapers turned it back on them, practically sneering, "How did she do it while under...
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
Author | James M. McPherson |
ISBN | 1594201919 |
I thought this was a good companion history to Goodwin's Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Whereas that one delves into Lincoln's relationship with his fractious cabinet, McPherson's is a chronological history of Lincoln's interactions with his generals. After reading this,...
Author | Dumas Malone |
ISBN | 0316544736 |
The second volume in this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography tells the story of the eventful middle years in the life of Thomas Jefferson: his ministry to France in the years just before the French Revolution and during the early stages of that conflict; his service as secretary of state in President...
Author | Willard Sterne Randall |
ISBN | 0060976179 |
Combining firsthand scholarship and material drawn from the Jefferson Papers, Willard Sterne Randall calls on his skills as an investigative journalist to challenge long-held assumptions about the reasoning, motives, and works of this sage, philosopher, politician, and romantic. Exploring...