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History of American Presidential Elections, 1789-2001
Pulitzer Prize -- winning historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, jr. has enlisted some of America's top historians and political scientists to tell the stories of and to analyze every …
Hamid Karzai
Hamid Karzai made history on December 7, 2004, when he was officially sworn in as Afghanistan's first democratically elected president. The world applauded as he vowed to heal his …
Hosni Mubarak
Most of the world mourned the death of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, who was assassinated in 1981. However, in Egypt, where Sadat had been deeply unpopular, people held a …
A Life in the Twentieth Century
From America's most celebrated living historian comes this "sprightly, straightforward account of the first third of an active and charmed life" (New York Times). Arthur …
Michelle Bachelet
In 2006, Michelle Bachelet made history by becoming the first woman to be elected president of Chile. The daughter of a Chilean Air Force general, Bachelet and her family were …
Vladimir Putin
The Russian democratic experiment continues under its third president, Vladimir Putin, now in his second term. An unknown when he was handpicked by his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, …
John Tyler
The first accidental president, whose secret maneuverings brought Texas into the Union and set secession in motion When William Henry Harrison died in April 1841, just one month …
Calvin Coolidge: The American Presidents Series: The 30th President, 1923-1929
The austere president who presided over the Roaring Twenties and whose conservatism masked an innovative approach to national leadership He was known as Silent Cal. Buttoned up and …
Richard M. Nixon
The complex man at the center of America's most self-destructive presidency In this provocative and revelatory assessment of the only president ever forced out of office, the …
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
- Absorbing accounts of the leaders whose ideas and actions have changed the course of history - Examines each person's life in the context of the politics of the time - Full-color …
Angela Merkel
Born in West Germany but raised in East Germany, Angela Merkel has known both repression and freedom. With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Merkel started her meteoric rise to …
Zachary Taylor: The American Presidents Series: The 12th President, 1849-1850
The rough-hewn general who rose to the nation's highest office, and whose presidency witnessed the first political skirmishes that would lead to the Civil War Zachary Taylor was a …