Lone Star Rising: Vol. 1: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960
6 best books like Lone Star Rising: Vol. 1: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960 (Robert Dallek): The Wonky Donkey, My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams, Andrew Johnson: A Biography, James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity, President James Buchanan: A Biography, Franklin Pierce: New Hampshire's Favorite Son
Author | Craig Smith |
ISBN | 1869439260 |
So I jumped on the bandwagon and got this for my boys after seeing the video of the hilarious Scottish granny reading it to her grandson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_co...
Just try saying "he was a stinky dinky lanky honky tonky winky wonky donkey" out loud. If that doesn't make you...
My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams
Author | Abigail Adams |
ISBN | 0674026063 |
In 1762, John Adams penned a flirtatious note to "Miss Adorable," the 17-year-old Abigail Smith. In 1801, Abigail wrote to wish her husband John a safe journey as he headed home to Quincy after serving as president of the nation he helped create. The letters that span these nearly forty years form the...
Andrew Johnson: A Biography
Author | Hans L. Trefousse |
ISBN | 0393317420 |
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“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...
Author | Harry Ammon |
ISBN | 0813912660 |
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“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...
Author | Philip Shriver Klein |
ISBN | 0945707118 |
The life of James Buchanan is in essence the story of a man who declined to be a dictator. Republics are traditionally ungrateful, and in Buchanan's case the American republic has been notoriously thankless to the man who was, from log cabin to White House, the relentless foe of fanatics and demagogues;...
Author | Peter A. Wallner |
ISBN | 0975521616 |
Well-researched if perhaps overly complimentary, this book does a good job of answering one of the questions that most interests me about presidents: why were they elected in the first place?
Pierce is presented as a moderate in this book, who was looking constantly for a way to secure first...