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All the President’s Men
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Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)
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The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)
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4.42 avg rating — 26,087 ratings
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Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #2)
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4.28 avg rating — 27,271 ratings
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Truman
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4.17 avg rating — 90,634 ratings
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John Adams
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4.08 avg rating — 374,464 ratings
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The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #4)
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4.40 avg rating — 19,436 ratings
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Forty-Ninth
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4.12 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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4.28 avg rating — 197,358 ratings
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Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
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4.25 avg rating — 10,737 ratings
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FDR
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My Country 'Tis of Thee
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3.61 avg rating — 956 ratings
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Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
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4.31 avg rating — 26,856 ratings
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Washington: A Life
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4.16 avg rating — 80,706 ratings
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Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir
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4.25 avg rating — 18,597 ratings
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The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule
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3.97 avg rating — 2,284 ratings
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The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track (Institutions of American Democracy Series)
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3.77 avg rating — 285 ratings
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The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It
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4.04 avg rating — 1,860 ratings
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Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
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4.05 avg rating — 42,562 ratings
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What It Takes: The Way to the White House
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4.41 avg rating — 3,166 ratings
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Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
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4.13 avg rating — 24,268 ratings
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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
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3.86 avg rating — 56,252 ratings
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The Strange Career of Jim Crow
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4.14 avg rating — 3,189 ratings
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Amendment Seventeen: A Blessing? Or a Curse?
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My Life
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Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies
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4.14 avg rating — 35,124 ratings
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The Boys on the Bus
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4.11 avg rating — 1,377 ratings
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Chappaquiddick: Power, Privilege, and the Ted Kennedy Cover-Up
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3.65 avg rating — 787 ratings
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
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3.83 avg rating — 168,854 ratings
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The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
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3.65 avg rating — 4,646 ratings
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Grant
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4.03 avg rating — 12,986 ratings
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Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas
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4.18 avg rating — 530 ratings
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
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4.08 avg rating — 261,334 ratings
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This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral — plus plenty of valet parking! — in America's Gilded Capital
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3.48 avg rating — 7,036 ratings
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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
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4.11 avg rating — 3,559 ratings
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Fear: Trump in the White House
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3.87 avg rating — 64,991 ratings
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Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
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4.22 avg rating — 22,971 ratings
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The Liberal Record: How Liberals Changed the World
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4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
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With All Due Respect: Defending America With Grit and Grace
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Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote
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4.03 avg rating — 512 ratings
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The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity
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4.16 avg rating — 10,659 ratings
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One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon
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4.05 avg rating — 1,749 ratings
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The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court
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4.14 avg rating — 5,158 ratings
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Speaking for Myself: Faith, Freedom, and the Fight of Our Lives Inside the Trump White House
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4.41 avg rating — 3,253 ratings
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Why Americans Hate Politics: The Death of the Democratic Process
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3.88 avg rating — 216 ratings
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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4.27 avg rating — 93,061 ratings
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Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
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4.13 avg rating — 22,762 ratings
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First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton
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Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
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What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era
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American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush
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Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
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Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics
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4.41 avg rating — 2,657 ratings
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No One Left to Lie to: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton
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3.89 avg rating — 2,846 ratings
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The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays
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All Too Human
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3.83 avg rating — 3,707 ratings
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Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
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The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump
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Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream
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What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63
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Fools for Scandal: How The Media Invented Whitewater
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3.83 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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4.26 avg rating — 100,325 ratings
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Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65
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Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology
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How Ike Led: The Principles Behind Eisenhower's Biggest Decisions
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War Is a Racket
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Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service
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Nation Builder: John Quincy Adams and the Grand Strategy of the Republic
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Mrs. Kennedy: The Missing History of the Kennedy Years
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The Ailing Nation: Lessons From the Bedside for America's Leaders
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George H. W. Bush: A Point of Light
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41: A Portrait of My Father
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United States of Socialism
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Victory: The Reagan Administration's Secret Strategy That Hastened the Collapse of the Soviet Union
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3.81 avg rating — 134 ratings
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The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left
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American Gaslighting: How America is Being Systematically Taught to Hate Itself
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Exit with Honor
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A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton
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American Dreamer: A Life of Henry A. Wallace (Norton Paperback)
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4.34 avg rating — 286 ratings
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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4.52 avg rating — 27,639 ratings
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Defender in Chief: Donald Trump's Fight for the Constitution
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At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
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4.43 avg rating — 1,909 ratings
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The Pact: Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and the Rivalry that Defined a Generation
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3.86 avg rating — 192 ratings
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Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump
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Witness
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JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died & Why It Matters
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Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books
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The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill
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Trump and Me
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Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago
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The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed
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3.81 avg rating — 188 ratings
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The Promise and the Dream: The Untold Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. And Robert F. Kennedy
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4.12 avg rating — 217 ratings
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Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government
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4.01 avg rating — 3,871 ratings
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Nixon's Secrets: The Rise, Fall, and Untold Truth about the President, Watergate, and the Pardon
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3.72 avg rating — 176 ratings
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Double Down: Game Change 2012
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Cop Under Fire: Moving Beyond Hashtags of Race, Crime Politics for a Better America
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Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union
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Peril
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The Storm Is Here: An American Crucible
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4.27 avg rating — 680 ratings
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This book predicts that Obama will win by more than a million votes in the upcoming election, but lose to Romney in the Electoral College. How is this possible? And what is the history that makes it so? The answer might shock you. This book reveals the answer to those questions, along with a lot of fascinating details about every U.S. presidential election in history. It's an easy read. Not a boring history at all. Every citizen should understand how the Electoral College works before they step into the polling booth in November. This book will provide that understanding.