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Walter Lippmann and the American CenturyRonald Steel198038 pts4 wins5 listsTaylor & FrancisBiographyPresidential Biography+1
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon JohnsonRobert A. Caro201238 pts5 wins7 listsKnopfBiographyPresidency & Executive Power+1
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 3Robert A. Caro198334 pts3 wins4 listsKnopfBiographyPresidency & Executive Power+1
A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin RooseveltGeoffrey C. Ward198928 pts3 wins4 listsHarper & RowBiographyMemoir & Personal History+3
The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White HouseSeymour M. Hersh198324 pts3 wins3 listsSummit BooksPolitics & GovernmentPresidency & Executive Power+1
Khrushchev: The Man and His EraWilliam Taubman200320 pts2 wins2 listsW. W. NortonBiographyEurope & Russia+2
Hirohito and the Making of Modern JapanHerbert P. Bix200120 pts2 wins2 listsHarperCollinsBiographyAsia & the Pacific+2
The Rise of Theodore RooseveltEdmund Morris197920 pts2 wins2 listsModern LibraryBiographyPresidency & Executive Power+1
Richard Nixon: The LifeJohn A. Farrell201720 pts2 wins6 listsDoubledayBiographyMemoir & Personal History+1
Washington: A LifeRon Chernow201018 pts3 wins3 listsPenguin BooksBiographyMemoir & Personal History+1
The Chief: The Life of William Randolph HearstDavid Nasaw200018 pts2 wins3 listsHoughton Mifflin HarcourtBiographyLiterature & Writers+1
Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private PapersJoseph P. Lash197118 pts2 wins3 listsW. W. NortonBiographyMemoir & Personal History+1
Walt Whitman: A LifeJustin Kaplan198018 pts1 wins3 listsSimon & SchusterBiographyMemoir & Personal History+1
Jefferson and His Time: The Sage of MonticelloDumas Malone198116 pts0 wins4 listsUnknown imprintBiographyPresidential Biography
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of ChinaEzra F. Vogel201114 pts1 wins2 listsHarvard University PressBiographyAfrica & the African Diaspora+1
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White HouseJon Meacham200814 pts1 wins2 listsRandom HouseBiographyAmerican Politics+2
John AdamsDavid McCullough200114 pts1 wins2 listsSimon & SchusterBiographyBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+2
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary GenerationJoseph J. Ellis200014 pts1 wins2 listsKnopfHistoryConstitutional History+2
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas JeffersonJoseph J. Ellis199714 pts1 wins2 listsKnopfBiographyPresidential Biography
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to PowerRobert A. Caro198214 pts1 wins2 listsKnopfBiographyPresidency & Executive Power+2
Naming NamesVictor S. Navasky198014 pts1 wins2 listsPenguin BooksPolitics & GovernmentPresidential Biography
Robert Kennedy and His TimesArthur M. Schlesinger Jr.197814 pts1 wins2 listsMariner BooksBiographyPresidential Biography
The Devil and John Foster DullesTownsend Hoopes197314 pts1 wins2 listsLittle, BrownPolitics & GovernmentAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White HouseArthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.196514 pts1 wins2 listsHoughton MifflinBiographyPresidency & Executive Power+3
The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American IndependenceRichard B. Morris196514 pts1 wins2 listsHarperCollinsHistoryIndigenous History+2
Charles Evans HughesMerlo J. Pusey195114 pts1 wins2 listsMacmillanBiographyPresidency & Executive Power+2
Roosevelt and HopkinsRobert E. Sherwood194814 pts1 wins2 listsHarper & BrothersBiographyPresidential Biography
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham LincolnDoris Kearns Goodwin200512 pts1 wins3 listsSimon & SchusterBiographyAmerican Civil War+1
The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends 1880–1918Patricia O'Toole199012 pts0 wins3 listsBallantine BooksBiographyLiterature & Writers+2
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. KennedyDavid Nasaw201212 pts0 wins4 listsPenguin PressBiographyPresidential Biography
The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American MythJosh Levin201910 pts1 wins1 listsLittle, BrownTrue Crime & JusticePresidential Biography
American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to GlobalizationNeil Smith200210 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of California PressBiographyPresidential Biography+3
Jefferson Davis, AmericanWilliam J. Cooper, Jr.200010 pts1 wins1 listsKnopfBiographyAmerican Civil War+1
Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One, 1884–1933Blanche Wiesen Cook199310 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyMemoir & Personal History+1
Machiavelli in HellSebastian de Grazia198910 pts1 wins1 listsPicadorBiographyPresidency & Executive Power+1
Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the CountryWilliam Greider198710 pts1 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterBusiness & EconomicsPresidency & Executive Power+2
George Washington: Anguish and Farewell, 1793–1799James Thomas Flexner197210 pts1 wins1 listsLittle, BrownBiographyMemoir & Personal History+2
The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, BeethovenCharles Rosen197110 pts1 wins1 listsW. W. NortonArts & CriticismLiterature & Writers+1
Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de StaëlJ. Christopher Herold195910 pts1 wins1 listsCharter BooksBiographyPresidential Biography
The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an AgeLeo Damrosch20198 pts1 wins2 listsYale University PressBiographyIntellectual Biography+3
Ma'am Darling: Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess MargaretCraig Brown20178 pts1 wins2 listsFourth EstateBiographyPresidential Biography
Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal ExperimentWillie Lee Nichols Rose19648 pts1 wins2 listsOxford University PressHistoryPresidential Biography+1
FDR: The Beckoning of Destiny, 1882–1928Kenneth S. Davis19738 pts1 wins2 listsUnknown imprintBiographyPresidency & Executive Power+2
Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928Stephen Kotkin20148 pts0 wins2 listsPenguin PressBiographyPresidency & Executive Power+2
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano RooseveltH.W. Brands20088 pts0 wins2 listsDoubledayBiographyPresidency & Executive Power+2
Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American PoliticianRoger Morris19898 pts0 wins2 listsHenry Holt and CompanyBiographyPresidency & Executive Power+1
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State DepartmentDean Acheson19708 pts0 wins2 listsW. W. NortonMemoir & AutobiographyPresidency & Executive Power+2
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin FranklinH.W. Brands20008 pts0 wins2 listsAnchorBiographyMemoir & Personal History+1
Dr Johnson And Mr SavageRichard Holmes19934 pts1 wins1 listsHodder & StoughtonBiographyBiography & Public Lives+1
Taming the Storm: The Life and Times of Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr. and the South’s Fight Over Civil RightsJack Bass19944 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyPresidential Biography+3
Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian StarMayukh Sen20254 pts0 wins1 listsW. W. NortonBiographyMemoir & Personal History+1
Story of a Poem: A MemoirMatthew Zapruder20234 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyPresidential Biography+1
First: Sandra Day O'ConnorEvan Thomas20194 pts0 wins1 listsRandom HouseBiographyMemoir & Personal History+2
Reagan: An American JourneyBob Spitz20184 pts0 wins1 listsPenguin PressBiographyPresidency & Executive Power+1
The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden BookPeter Finn, Petra Couvee20144 pts0 wins1 listsVintage BooksPolitics & GovernmentEurope & Russia+1
Woodrow Wilson: A BiographyJohn Milton Cooper, Jr.20114 pts0 wins1 listsVintage BooksBiographyPresidential Biography
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective And His Rendezvous With American HistoryYunte Huang20104 pts0 wins1 listsW. W. NortonBiographyMemoir & Personal History+1
Colonel RooseveltEdmund Morris20104 pts0 wins1 listsRandom HouseBiographyPresidency & Executive Power+1
Hiroshima in the MorningRahna Reiko Rizzuto20104 pts0 wins1 listsFeminist PressMemoir & AutobiographyPresidential Biography+1
The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest EnemyAdrienne Mayor20104 pts0 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressBiographyLiterature & Writers+2
Louis D. Brandeis: A LifeMelvin I. Urofsky20094 pts0 wins1 listsPantheonBiographyPresidential Biography
The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and His Moral ConscienceKirstin Downey20094 pts0 wins1 listsNan A. TaleseBiographyPresidency & Executive Power+2
What Happened Here: Bush ChroniclesEliot Weinberger20054 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintPolitics & GovernmentPresidential Biography
John James Audubon: The Making of an AmericanRichard Rhodes20044 pts0 wins1 listsKnopfBiographyNatural History & Animals+1
Washington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran and the Great American Communist HuntMichael Ybarra20044 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyPresidency & Executive Power+1
The Fly Swatter: A Portrait of an Exceptional CharacterNicholas Dawidoff20034 pts0 wins1 listsVintage BooksBiographyPresidential Biography
Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11Gerald Posner20034 pts0 wins1 listsRandom HousePolitics & GovernmentCrime, Policing & Violence+2
An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural BoyhoodJimmy Carter20014 pts0 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterMemoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal History+1
Prince of Princes: The Life of PotemkinSimon Sebag Montefiore20014 pts0 wins1 listsWeidenfeld & NicolsonBiographyPresidential Biography
Napoleon Bonaparte: A LifeAlan Schom19984 pts0 wins1 listsHarper PerennialBiographyPresidential Biography
Saint-Exupery: A BiographyStacy Schiff19964 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyPresidential Biography
Clear Pictures: First Loves, First GuidesReynolds Price19904 pts0 wins1 listsBallantine BooksMemoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal History+1
The Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy AdamsLeonard L. Richards19884 pts0 wins1 listsOxford University PressBiographyPresidential Biography
Churchill: Young Man in a Hurry, 1874–1915Ted Morgan19824 pts0 wins1 listsJonathan CapeBiographyMemoir & Personal History+1
Marquand: An American LifeMillicent Bell19794 pts0 wins1 listsLittle, BrownBiographyPresidential Biography
The American Railroad Passenger CarJohn H. White, Jr.19784 pts0 wins1 listsJohns Hopkins University PressHistoryPresidential Biography
Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945–48Robert J. Donovan19774 pts0 wins1 listsW. W. NortonBiographyPresidency & Executive Power+2
Democratic Promise: The Populist Moment in AmericaLawrence Goodwyn19764 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryAmerican Politics+2
The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVotoWallace Stegner19744 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyPresidential Biography
History and Will: Philosophical Perspectives of Mao Tse-Tung's ThoughtFrederic Wakeman19734 pts0 wins1 listsUniversity of California PressPolitics & GovernmentMemoir & Personal History+1
Herblock's State of the UnionHerbert Block19724 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintPolitics & GovernmentPresidency & Executive Power+1
Henry VIII: The Mask of RoyaltyLacey Baldwin Smith19714 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyPresidential Biography
Charles Sumner and the Rights of ManDavid Herbert Donald19704 pts0 wins1 listsKnopfBiographyConstitutional History+2
The Indian Heritage of AmericaAlvin M. Josephy, Jr.19694 pts0 wins1 listsBantam BooksHistoryIndigenous History+2
The Limits of InterventionTownsend Hoopes19694 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintPolitics & GovernmentIndigenous History+2
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern WorldBarrington Moore, Jr.19674 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryClass, Poverty & Inequality+1
To Move a Nation: The Politics of Foreign Policy in the Administration of John F. KennedyRoger Hilsman19674 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintPolitics & GovernmentPresidency & Executive Power+2
The Bill of Rights: Its Origin and MeaningIrving Brant19654 pts0 wins1 listsBobbs-MerrillHistoryLaw & Legal Change+2
The Making of the President, 1964Theodore H. White19654 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintPolitics & GovernmentPresidency & Executive Power+2
The Founding Father: The Story of Joseph P. KennedyRichard J. Whalen19644 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyConstitutional History+1
The First New Nation: The United States in Historical and Comparative PerspectiveSeymour Martin Lipset19634 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryConstitutional History+2
The Quiet CrisisStewart Udall19634 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintNature & EnvironmentPresidency & Executive Power+1
Profiles in CourageJohn F. Kennedy19554 pts0 wins1 listsHamish HamiltonBiographyPresidential Biography
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All awards · Topic: Presidential Biography · Sorted by score · 148 books · filtered