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India Calling
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Reversing his parents' immigrant path, a young American-born writer returns to India and discovers an old country making itself new
Anand Giridharadas sensed...
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The legendary talk show host's humorous reminiscences and pointed commentary on the great figures he has known, and culture and politics today
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Jimmy Carter
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The maverick politician from Georgia who rode the post- Watergate wave into office but whose term was consumed by economic and international crises
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Herbert Hoover
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The American Presidents Series: The 31st President, 1929-1933
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The Republican efficiency expert whose economic boosterism met its match in the Great Depression
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Abraham Lincoln
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The American Presidents Series: The 16th President, 1861-1865
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America’s greatest president, who rose to power in the country’s greatest hour of need and whose vision saw the United States through the Civil War
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John Tyler
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The American Presidents Series: The 10th President, 1841-1845
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The first “accidental president,” whose secret maneuverings brought Texas into the Union and set secession in motion
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Harry S. Truman
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The American Presidents Series: The 33rd President, 1945-1953
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The plainspoken man from Missouri who never expected to be president yet rose to become one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century
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Zachary Taylor
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The American Presidents Series: The 12th President, 1849-1850
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The rough-hewn general who rose to the nation’s highest office, and whose presidency witnessed the first political skirmishes that would lead to the Civil...
George H. W. Bush
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The American Presidents Series: The 41st President, 1989-1993
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The judicious statesman who won victories abroad but suffered defeat at home, whose wisdom and demeanor served America well at a critical time
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The American Presidents Series: The 21st President, 1881-1885
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The Gilded Age bon vivant who became America's unlikeliest chief executive-and who presided over a sweeping reform of the system that nurtured him
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Martin Van Buren
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The American Presidents Series: The 8th President, 1837-1841
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The first president born after America's independence ushers in a new era of no-holds-barred democracy
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Benjamin Harrison
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The American Presidents Series: The 23rd President, 1889-1893
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The scion of a political dynasty ushers in the era of big government
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Andrew Jackson
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The towering figure who remade American politics—the champion of the ordinary citizen and the scourge of entrenched privilege
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Woodrow Wilson
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The American Presidents Series: The 28th President, 1913-1921
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A comprehensive account of the rise and fall of one of the major shapers of American foreign policy
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Ulysses S. Grant
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The American Presidents Series: The 18th President, 1869-1877
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The underappreciated presidency of the military man who won the Civil War and then had to win the peace as well
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James Buchanan
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The American Presidents Series: The 15th President, 1857-1861
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Almost no president was as well trained and well prepared for the office as James...
Calvin Coolidge
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The American Presidents Series: The 30th President, 1923-1929
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The austere president who presided over the Roaring Twenties and whose conservatism masked an innovative approach to national leadership
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Warren G. Harding
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The American Presidents Series: The 29th President, 1921-1923
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President Nixon’s former counsel illuminates another presidency marked by scandal
Warren G. Harding may be best known as America’s worst...
Rutherford B. Hayes
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The American Presidents Series: The 19th President, 1877-1881
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A leader of the Reconstruction era, whose contested election eerily parallels the election debacle of 2000
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James Madison
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A bestselling historian examines the life of a Founding Father.
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John Quincy Adams
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The American Presidents Series: The 6th President, 1825-1829
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A vivid portrait of a man whose pre- and post-presidential careers overshadowed his presidency.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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The American Presidents Series: The 32nd President, 1933-1945
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A masterly work by the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill and Gladstone
A protean figure and a man of massive achievement, Franklin Delano...
John Adams
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A revealing look at the true beginning of American politics
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