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The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made

9 best books like The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made (Patricia O'Toole): The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777, The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels, Leadership: In Turbulent Times, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, Presidents of War: The Epic Story, from 1807 to Modern Times, The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War, Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants, The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic, President Carter: The White House Years

The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
AuthorRick Atkinson
ISBN1627790438
In the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy Rick Atkinson recounts the first twenty-one months of America’s violent war for independence. From the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777, American militiamen and then the ragged Continental...
The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
AuthorJon Meacham
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear.

Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America Meacham shows us...
Leadership: In Turbulent Times
AuthorDoris Kearns Goodwin
ISBN1476795924
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,...
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
AuthorDavid W. Blight
ISBN1416590315
As a young man, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress, and he would go on to become one of the major literary figures of his time. His very existence gave the lie to slave owners: with dignity...
Presidents of War: The Epic Story, from 1807 to Modern Times
AuthorMichael R. Beschloss
ISBN0307409600
From a preeminent presidential historian comes a groundbreaking and often surprising narrative of America’s wartime chief executives

It sometimes seems, in retrospect, as if America has been almost continuously at war. Ten years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh,...
The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
AuthorJoanne B. Freeman
ISBN0374154775
The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War

In The Field of Blood, Joanne Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, Freeman shows that the Capitol was...
Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants
AuthorH.W. Brands
ISBN0525638008
From New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how, in nineteenth-century America, a new set of political giants battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the future of our democracy

In the early 1800s, three young men strode...
The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
AuthorBenjamin Carter Hett
ISBN1250162505
A riveting account of how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic and the shortsightedness of German politicians allowed it to happen

Why did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf Hitler...
President Carter: The White House Years
AuthorStuart E. Eizenstat
ISBN1250104556
The definitive history of the Carter Administration from the man who participated in its surprising number of accomplishments―drawing on his extensive and never-before-seen notes.

Stuart Eizenstat was at Jimmy Carter’s side from his political rise in Georgia through four years...
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