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John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 4.08 — 374,398 ratings — published 2001
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 36 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 4.05 — 42,551 ratings — published 2012
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 4.28 — 197,315 ratings — published 2005
Truman (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 4.17 — 90,607 ratings — published 1992
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 4.23 — 81,894 ratings — published 2011
Washington: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 4.16 — 80,664 ratings — published 2010
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 3.86 — 56,234 ratings — published 2008
Theodore Rex (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 4.19 — 50,828 ratings — published 2001
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 3.94 — 28,907 ratings — published 1997
Grant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 4.50 — 42,524 ratings — published 2017
His Excellency: George Washington (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 3.96 — 42,999 ratings — published 2004
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 4.15 — 23,763 ratings — published 2013
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 4.22 — 59,625 ratings — published 1979
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 4.21 — 75,334 ratings — published 2005
FDR (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,192 ratings — published 2007
Coolidge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 3.80 — 7,375 ratings — published 2013
Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 4.19 — 48,265 ratings — published 1995
A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, The Mexican War, and the Conquest of the American Continent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 3.84 — 7,614 ratings — published 2008
The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,164 ratings — published 2012
Mornings on Horseback (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 4.10 — 34,867 ratings — published 1981
Decision Points (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 3.81 — 42,242 ratings — published 2010
Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 3.84 — 9,621 ratings — published 2008
Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)
by (shelved 16 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 4.42 — 23,799 ratings — published 2002
John Quincy Adams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 4.02 — 9,674 ratings — published 2012
An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 3.99 — 12,728 ratings — published 2011
The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #4)
by (shelved 15 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 4.40 — 19,432 ratings — published 2012
Franklin Pierce (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 3.58 — 1,879 ratings — published 2010
Wilson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 3.88 — 7,844 ratings — published 2013
Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt #3)
by (shelved 14 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 4.11 — 22,342 ratings — published 2010
Grant (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 4.03 — 12,986 ratings — published 2001
The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 3.94 — 10,817 ratings — published 2009
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 4.32 — 266,449 ratings — published 2020
Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 4.13 — 8,631 ratings — published 2015
James Madison: A Life Reconsidered (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,369 ratings — published 2014
Millard Fillmore: Biography of a President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,637 ratings — published 1959
Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 4.28 — 27,269 ratings — published 1990
Eisenhower in War and Peace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 4.08 — 11,154 ratings — published 2012
James Madison: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 3.96 — 4,407 ratings — published 1971
Fear: Trump in the White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 3.87 — 64,985 ratings — published 2018
Zachary Taylor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,232 ratings — published 2008
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 4.42 — 26,084 ratings — published 1982
Benjamin Harrison (The American Presidents, #23)
by (shelved 12 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,986 ratings — published 2005
Woodrow Wilson: A Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 3.81 — 6,457 ratings — published 2009
Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 3.94 — 16,514 ratings — published 2005
President McKinley: Architect of the American Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,283 ratings — published 2017
Martin Van Buren (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,881 ratings — published 2005
The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,693 ratings — published 2011
John Tyler, the Accidental President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 3.78 — 2,361 ratings — published 2006
John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 3.94 — 7,871 ratings — published 1997
American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as u-s-presidents)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,016 ratings — published 2016
“The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
--as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS”
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--as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS”
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“It does not require much historical knowledge (though it may require a certain historical perspective) to see that many, if not all, of the "aristocratic" elements of the Constitution (as in other countries) have gradually disappeared or were washed away during the past two hundred years, while the monarchic powers of the presidency and the democratic extent of majority rule became more and more overwhelming.”
― Democracy and Populism: Fear and Hatred
― Democracy and Populism: Fear and Hatred
