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10 best books like The Kennedys: America's Emerald Kings: A Five-Generation History of the Ultimate Irish-Catholic Family (Thomas Maier): Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness, Long Walk To Freedom, The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done, The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama, On My Own at 107: Reflections on Life Without Bessie, Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or a Nightmare?

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
AuthorBarack Obama
ISBN1921351438
Nine years before the Senate campaign that made him one of the most influential and compelling voices in American politics, Barack Obama published this lyrical, unsentimental, and powerfully affecting memoir, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller when it was reissued in 2004. Dreams from My...
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
AuthorBenjamin Franklin
ISBN0743255062
"The first book to belong permanently to literature. It created a man."
-- From the Introduction Few men could compare to Benjamin Franklin. Virtually self-taught, he excelled as an athlete, a man of letters, a printer, a scientist, a wit, an inventor, an editor, and a writer, and he was probably...
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
AuthorEdmund Morris
ISBN0375756787
'Colonel Roosevelt,' which takes its title from Roosevelt's favourite way of being addressed during his emeritus years, follows the African Journey with Mr. Morris's characteristic care. He uses primary sources, sometimes even rough drafts of letters and documents, and goes well beyond Roosevelt's...
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
AuthorThomas L. Friedman
ISBN0374292795
A timely and essential update on globalization, its successes and discontents, powerfully illuminated by one of our most respected journalists.

When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004," what will they say was the most...
The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
AuthorKaren Armstrong
ISBN0385721277
In 1962, at age seventeen, Karen Armstrong entered a convent, eager to meet God. After seven brutally unhappy years as a nun, she left her order to pursue English literature at Oxford. But convent life had profoundly altered her, and coping with the outside world and her expiring faith proved to be excruciating....
Long Walk To Freedom
AuthorNelson Mandela
ISBN0349116024
From his birth in a village on the banks of the Mbashe River in the Transkei to his politicisation and development as a freedom fighter, this first volume of Nelson Mandela's classic autobiography charts the early years of his life, which culminated in his prison sentence in 1962. Emotive, compelling...
The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
AuthorPeter F. Drucker
ISBN0060833459
What makes an effective executive?

The measure of the executive, Peter F. Drucker reminds us, is the ability to "get the right things done." This usually involves doing what other people have overlooked as well as avoiding what is unproductive. Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge...
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
AuthorDavid Remnick
ISBN1400043603
No story has been more central to America’s history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and until now, no journalist or historian has written a book that fully investigates the circumstances and experiences of Obama’s life or explores the ambition behind his rise. Those familiar with Obama’s...
On My Own at 107: Reflections on Life Without Bessie
AuthorSarah L. Delany
ISBN0062514865
"On My Own at 107" is Sarah "Sadie" Delaney's tribute to Bessie, her beloved younger sister and century-long companion, who died on September 25, 1995, at age 104. Just four years earlier, Bessie and Sadie, along with former "New York Times" reporter Amy Hill Hearth, co-wrote the bestselling "Having...
Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or a Nightmare?
AuthorJames H. Cone
ISBN0883448246
Professor Cone has done much research in comparing the lives, careers, and teachings of the two leading figures of the Civil Rights Movement and Black Power Movement: Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, whose lives were both cut short by assassins. Cone argues that each was important in his own right,...
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