William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life

5 best books like William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life (James Lee McDonough): Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777, Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown, Henry Clay: The Essential American

Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush

Author

Jon Meacham

From Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham comes a sweeping yet intimate biography of George H. W. Bush. Based on rigorous research, hours of private interviews, and extraordinary access to Bush’s diaries and to his family, Destiny and Power paints a vivid and...

The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

Author	Rick Atkinson
ISBN	1627790438

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...

Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

Author	Henry Louis Gates Jr.
ISBN	0525559531

The New York Times bestseller.

A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American...

In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown

Author	Nathaniel Philbrick
ISBN	0525426760

The thrilling story of the Revolutionary War finale from the New York Times bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Valiant Ambition.

Here is the story of the remarkable year leading up to the siege of Yorktown. It sets Washington against his traitorous nemesis Benedict Arnold and...

Henry Clay: The Essential American

Author

David S. Heidler

The epic life and times of one of the most important political figures in our history.
 
He was the Great Compromiser, a canny and colorful legislator and leader whose life mirrors the story of America from its founding until the eve of the Civil War. Speaker of the House, senator, secretary...