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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.28 average rating, · 203.5k ratings
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Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow
4.22 average rating, · 204.8k ratings
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John Adams
David McCullough
4.09 average rating, · 382.3k ratings
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Grant
Ron Chernow
4.50 average rating, · 45.7k ratings
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Candice Millard
4.25 average rating, · 88.7k ratings
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The Wright Brothers
David McCullough
4.18 average rating, · 100.4k ratings
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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
S.C. Gwynne
4.25 average rating, · 70.3k ratings
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Robert A. Caro
4.53 average rating, · 30.8k ratings
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Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning
Liz Cheney
4.56 average rating, · 28.6k ratings
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Truman
David McCullough
4.17 average rating, · 92.5k ratings
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Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
Stephen E. Ambrose
4.23 average rating, · 69.2k ratings
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Washington: A Life
Ron Chernow
4.17 average rating, · 85.5k ratings
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Walter Isaacson
4.05 average rating, · 153k ratings
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Edmund Morris
4.22 average rating, · 62.3k ratings
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Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
Bill O'Reilly
4.06 average rating, · 109.6k ratings
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The Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe
4.23 average rating, · 56.6k ratings
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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
Daniel James Brown
4.25 average rating, · 42.3k ratings
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Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot
Bill O'Reilly
4.11 average rating, · 63k ratings
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Theodore Rex
Edmund Morris
4.19 average rating, · 51.6k ratings
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.21 average rating, · 47.2k ratings
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The Path to Power
Robert A. Caro
4.43 average rating, · 27.3k ratings
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Erik Larson
4.05 average rating, · 74.6k ratings
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We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
Harold G. Moore
4.34 average rating, · 33.7k ratings
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Lincoln
David Herbert Donald
4.20 average rating, · 49.2k ratings
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