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A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House: A Pulitzer Prize Winner
An account of John F. Kennedy's campaign, election, and days as President.
Robert Kennedy and His Times: 40th Anniversary Edition
"An absorbing and vividly written study of a gallant and tragic man."--Boston Globe Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., chronicles the short life of the Kennedy family's second …
Martin Van Buren: The American Presidents Series: The 8th President, 1837-1841
A portrait of the mid-nineteenth-century president considers his roles as the first president born after American independence, the first ethnic president, and the first New Yorker …
Jacques Chirac
For more than 40 years, Jacques Chirac has been at the center of French political life. ""The Bulldozer,"" as he is known, has served in every major office of the French state, …
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 …
Coming of the New Deal
Volume two of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s Age of Roosevelt series describes Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first tumultuous years in the White House.Coming into office at the …
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 …
Cycles of American History
A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian discusses “the Cold War, political parties, the presidency, and many broader philosophical issues [with] incisive wit” (Library Journal). A …
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, …