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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson Robert Vincent Remini Reveals why Jackson's bold leadership as a general cemented "Old Hickory"'s reputation for being tough and ultimately led to his election as President of the United States in 1828. OL14865067W
Libra Libra Don DeLillo In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious sta… OL1921198W
Prisoners of the White House Prisoners of the White House Kenneth T. Walsh One can scarcely imagine an environment outside the nation's penal system that is more isolating than the Executive Mansion, a habitat almost guaranteed to keep America's commander in chief far remov… OL19967066W
Le Président de la République a disparu Le Président de la République a disparu Olivier Renaudin Le Conseil des ministres tient sa dernière réunion avant les vacances. Le président de la République quitte le palais, de nuit, pour se retirer à "L'Epinette", maison isolée et abandonnée. Il y demeu… OL24689939W
Hillary, histoire d'une ambition Hillary, histoire d'une ambition Jeff Gerth "Ce livre - nourri de sources inédites et de documents jusqu'ici confidentiels - nous éclaire sur sa véritable histoire." OL26178520W
Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln Stephen B. Oates Stephen B. Oates discerns the historical truth from the mythical legend that surrounds Lincoln in this original and fascinating portrait of America's 16th president. OL2752521W
Truman Truman David McCullough The Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by Americ… OL2820747W
John Adams John Adams David McCullough In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared no… OL2820749W
El poder y delirio El poder y delirio Enrique Krauze "El poder y el delirio: ¿Quién es Hugo Chávez: un combativo y avanzado líder político, artífice del "socialismo del siglo XXI", o un aprendiz de dictador? ¿Qué es Venezuela: el laboratorio de la prim… OL28959760W
Absolute Power Absolute Power David Baldacci In a heavily guarded mansion in a posh Virginia suburb, a man and a woman are about to embark on a night of passion, trapping an unsuspecting burglar behind a secret wall. Then the lovemaking turns d… OL41258W
Lincoln Lincoln David Herbert Donald The phenomenal national bestseller that is "the Lincoln biography for this generation" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.)-now in paperback. Drawing on resources not available until recently, including Lincoln… OL515424W
Dixie & the Dominion Dixie & the Dominion Adam Mayers In 1864 the war had entered its third year, and the battle momentum had shifted towards the North. A Union victory seemed imminent. Desperate to keep the Confederate dream alive, Southern leaders con… OL5777702W