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LBJ in the Presidency
Pub Date: Mar 13, 2012
Hey, hey, LBJ: The former president, not much talked about these days, comes in for assessment by political colleagues and journalists of the day.
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Pub Date: Jan 17, 2012
This splendid series of slim biographies nears completion with a satisfying life of our ninth and least important president.
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FDR, a Nation in Crisis, and the Rise of the American Right
Pub Date: Jan 3, 2012
Investigative journalist Denton (Pink Lady: The Many Lives of Helen Gahagan Douglas, 2009, etc.) follows critical moments in the career of four-term president Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who, demonized by far left and far right,escaped an assassin's bullet and a bizarre coup plot.
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Madison vs. Monroe: The Bill of Rights and the Election that Saved a Nation
Pub Date: Nov 14, 2011
A fresh, narrow, knowledgeable-of-minutia take on a well-known friendship and rivalry during the early establishment of the U.S. Constitution.
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Pub Date: Oct 4, 2011
Brookhiser (Right Time, Right Place: Coming of Age with William F. Buckley Jr. and the Conservative Movement, 2009, etc.) explores America's tangled two-party political system and the man instrumental in creating it, James Madison (1751–1836).
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A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President
Pub Date: Sep 20, 2011
The shocking shooting and the painful, lingering death of the 20th president.
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