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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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Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies
J.B. West
4.15 average rating, · 36.3k ratings
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Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
Hunter S. Thompson
4.13 average rating, · 25k ratings
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Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13
Jim Lovell
4.40 average rating, · 10.8k ratings
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What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism
Dan Rather
4.31 average rating, · 10k ratings
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Personal Memoirs
Ulysses S. Grant
4.15 average rating, · 10.1k ratings
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Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Robert F. Kennedy
4.08 average rating, · 9.1k ratings
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Mark Twain
Ron Chernow
4.17 average rating, · 7.5k ratings
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Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
Ty Seidule
4.40 average rating, · 5.9k ratings
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Five Days in November
Clint Hill
4.49 average rating, · 5.1k ratings
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God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State
Lawrence Wright
4.00 average rating, · 7.1k ratings
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Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879: The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians
Herman Lehmann
4.18 average rating, · 5.7k ratings
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Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could
Adam Schiff
4.51 average rating, · 4.4k ratings
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After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made
Ben Rhodes
4.19 average rating, · 5.2k ratings
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Co. Aytch: A Confederate Memoir of the Civil War
Sam R. Watkins
4.16 average rating, · 4.3k ratings
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It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump
Stuart Stevens
4.12 average rating, · 4.1k ratings
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Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon
Alan Shepard
4.16 average rating, · 4k ratings
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The Reagan Diaries
Ronald Reagan
4.13 average rating, · 3.5k ratings
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Ordinary Heroes: A Memoir of 9/11
Joseph Pfeifer
4.55 average rating, · 2.7k ratings
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Memoirs and Selected Letters
Ulysses S. Grant
4.09 average rating, · 3.3k ratings
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Slaves in the Family
Edward Ball
4.03 average rating, · 3.1k ratings
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Witness
Whittaker Chambers
4.38 average rating, · 2.4k ratings
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American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal
Neil King Jr.
4.17 average rating, · 2.3k ratings
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The Junction Boys: How Ten Days in Hell with Bear Bryant Forged a Championship Team
Jim Dent
4.23 average rating, · 2.3k ratings
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