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An Inconvenient Widow: The Torment, Trial, and Triumph of Mary Todd Lincoln
American Patriarch: The Life of George Washington
A Founding Mother: A Novel of Abigail Adams
Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
To Rescue the American Spirit: Teddy Roosevelt and the Birth of a Superpower
An Inconvenient Widow: The Torment, Trial, and Triumph of Mary Todd Lincoln
War
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
Blowback
The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill
Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden (Bill O'Reilly's Confronting Series)
American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union: An Anthology
The Kennedys and the Windsors: The Story of Two Dynasties, One Born, One Made
The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy―and Why it Failed
Jackie: Public, Private, Secret
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
The Beast in the Clouds: The Roosevelt Brothers' Deadly Quest to Find the Mythical Giant Panda
John Adams
Washington: A Life
Truman
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Grant
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)
Theodore Rex  (Theodore Roosevelt, #2)
His Excellency: George Washington
The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

Clint   Smith
Just as he did during the Slavery at Monticello tour, David did not mince words. "There’s a chapter in Notes on the State of Virginia,” he said to the five of us, standing in front of the east wing of Jefferson’s manor, “that has some of the most racist things you might ever read, written by anyone, anywhere, anytime, in it. So sometimes I stop and ask myself, 'If Gettysburg had gone the wrong way, would people be quoting the Declaration of Independence or Notes on the State of Virginia?' It’s t ...more
Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

Jennifer Donnelly
Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.
Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

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