Presidential Campaigns: From George Washington to George W. Bush
8 best books like Presidential Campaigns: From George Washington to George W. Bush (Paul F. Boller Jr.): Memoirs of Hadrian, Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership, Leadership: In Turbulent Times, The Way West, John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court, Storm Kings: America's First Tornado Chasers, How to Think Theologically
| Author | Marguerite Yourcenar |
| ISBN | 0374529264 |
Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has received international acclaim since its first publication in France in 1951. In it, Marguerite Yourcenar reimagines the Emperor Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally,...
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
| Author | Robert A. Caro |
| ISBN | 0525656340 |
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply revealing recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books
For the first time in his long career, Robert...
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership
| Author | James Comey |
| ISBN | 1250192455 |
Former FBI Director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like, and how it drives sound decisions. His journey provides an unprecedented...
Leadership: In Turbulent Times
| Author | Doris Kearns Goodwin |
| ISBN | 1476795924 |
Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the leader make the times or do the times make the leader?
In Leadership, Goodwin draws upon the four presidents she has studied most closely—Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt,...
| Author | A.B. Guthrie Jr. |
| ISBN | 0618154620 |
An enormously entertaining classic, THE WAY WEST brings to life the adventure of the western passage and the pioneer spirit. The sequel to THE BIG SKY, this celebrated novel charts a frontiersman's return to the untamed West in 1846. Dick Summers, as pilot of a wagon train, guides a group of settlers...
| Author | Richard Brookhiser |
| ISBN | 0465096220 |
The life of John Marshall, Founding Father and America's premier Chief Justice
In 1801, a genial and brilliant Revolutionary War veteran and politician became the fourth Chief Justice of the United States. He would hold the post for 34 years (still a record), expounding the Constitution...
| Author | Lee Sandlin |
| ISBN | 0307378527 |
Isaac's Storm meets The Age of Wonder in Lee Sandlin's Storm Kings, a riveting tale of the weather's most vicious monster-the super cell tornado-that recreates the origins of meteorology, and the quirky, pioneering, weather-obsessed scientists who helped change America.
While tornadoes...
How to Think Theologically
| Author | Howard W. Stone |
| ISBN | 0800638182 |
An outstanding introduction for college, seminary, and lay readers, this second edition of the 1996 volume has been fully updated and expanded with new resources, examples, vignettes, diagnostic exercisess, and case studies. Addressing the how and why of theological sources, moves, and methods,...
