Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Arizona

contemporary negotiating 

the art of negotiating 

Brian Kilmeade

Don Yaeger

New York

The Forgotten War That Changed American History

The forgotten war that changed American history.

Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates

32db3ab1-c7d4-4342-9783-a43c4f0b5d0e-1

#hardcover #nonfiction #history #briankilmeade #politicalhistory #politics #presidents #thomasjefferson 

Ohio

Excellent book for classroom, school and home libraries. Covers all presidents (1-45). Book was purchased new and has a crease on the front end paper. The dust jacket has minor shelf wear. #presidents #unitedstates #childrensnonfiction #presidentsaschildren #history #hardcover 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Unexpected Beginnings and Unwritten Future of America's Presidents (Presidents Book for Kids; History of United States Presidents When They Were Young)

An inspiring and informative book for kids about the past and future of America's presidents.

Who will be the NEXT president? Could it be you? When George Washington became the first president of the United States, there were nine future presidents already alive in America, doing things like practicing law or studying medicine.

When JFK became the thirty-fifth president, there were 10 future presidents already alive in America, doing things like hosting TV shows and learning the saxophone.

And right now--today!--there are at least 10 future presidents alive in America. They could be playing basketball, like Barack Obama, or helping in the garden, like Dwight D. Eisenhower. They could be solving math problems or reading books. They could be making art--or already making change.

* A breezy, kid-friendly survey of American history and American presidents
* Great for teachers, librarians, and other educators
* Kate Messner's nonfiction picture books have been lauded by critics and received a variety of awards.

For young readers and students who loved The New Big Book of Presidents, Lincoln and Kennedy: A Pair to Compare, and Kid Presidents: True Tales of Childhood from America's Presidents.

A helpful addition to curriculums of 5th- to 8th-grade students studying U.S. History and civics and the federal government.

* For readers ages 8-12
* U.S. history for kids
* Students, librarians, teachers
* 5th-8th-grade kids

From award-winning author Kate Messner and New York Times bestselling artist Adam Rex comes a timely and compelling compendium about the U.S. presidents--before they were presidents.

Kate Messner is an award-winning author whose many books for kids have been selected as Best Books by the New York Times, Junior Library Guild, IndieBound, and Bank Street College of Education. She lives on Lake Champlain with her family.

Adam Rex is the author and illustrator of many beloved picture books and novels, including Nothing Rhymes with Orange and the New York Times bestseller Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich. He has worked with the likes of Jon Scieszka, Mac Barnett, Jeff Kinney, and Neil Gaiman. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.

The Next President

98f0a6f4-d815-41bd-9517-df9763149e68-1

California

InJames Madison and the Making of America, historian Kevin Gutzman looks beyond the way James Madison is traditionally seen -- as "The Father of the Constitution" -- to find a more complex and sometimes contradictory portrait of this influential Founding Father and the ways in which he influenced the spirit of today's United States. Instead of an idealized portrait of Madison, Gutzman treats readers to the flesh-and-blood story of a man who often performed his founding deeds in spite of himself: Madison's fame rests on his participation in the writing ofThe Federalist Papers and his role in drafting the Bill of Rights and Constitution. Today, his contribution to those documents is largely misunderstood. He thought that the Bill of Rights was unnecessary and insisted that it not be included in the Constitution, a document he found entirely inadequate and predicted would soon fail. Madison helped to create the first American political party, the first party to call itself "Republican", but only after he had argued that political parties, in general, were harmful. Madison served as Secretary of State and then as President during the early years of the United States and the War of 1812; however, the American foreign policy he implemented in 1801-1817 ultimately resulted in the British burning down the Capitol and the White House. In so many ways, the contradictions both in Madison's thinking and in the way he governed foreshadowed the conflicted state of our Union now. His greatest legacy--the disestablishment of Virginia's state church and adoptionof the libertarian Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom--is often omitted from discussion of his career. Yet, understanding the way in which Madison saw the relationship between the church and state is key to understanding the real man. Kevin Gutzman'sJames Madison and the Making of Americapromises to become the standard biography of our fourth President.

James Madison and the Making of America

a4d23e85-a130-4925-a78b-97d393e61eda-1

#hardcover #nonfiction #contemporaryhistory #politicalscience #unitedstates #presidents 

Minnesota

Power and Personality in the Oval Office

Hugh Sidey "has collected his memories, anecdotes and reflections on America's 11 most recent presidents -- from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Bill Clinton." The book also "includes a pictorial biography of each president, as well as a picture gallery of the major events of his term."

Portraits of the Presidents

a4635dce-b676-49b2-8d8f-f0cd9da1e5f0-1

New Jersey

Words and Phrases Coined or Popularized by America's Presidents

The founding fathers (a term created by Warren G. Harding for his "front porch campaign" of 1920) felt that coining words and creating new uses for old ones was part of their role in creating a new American culture and language, distinct from the proscriptive King's English. Noah Webster called the creation of such Americanisms "acts of defiance," along with such radical ideas as universal literacy and public libraries. Ever since, American presidents have enriched our vocabulary with words,phrases, and concepts that weve put to general use.

Acclaimed lexicographer Paul Dickson has compiled the first collection of new words and lexical curiosities originating on Pennsylvania Avenue. Organized chronologically, each entry contains the definition, etymology, and a brief essay placing the word or phrase in its cultural context. From Washington (tin can) and Jefferson (who alone gets credit for some one hundred coinages, includingbelittleand the expression holding the bag), to Lincoln (relocate) and Teddy Roosevelt (bully pulpit), to Ike (mulligan) and Obama (Snowmageddon), they collectively provide an illuminating tour of more than two centuries of our history.

Bloviate ... lunatic fringe ... iffy ... military industrial complex ... Anglophobia ... kitchen cabinet ... public relations ... ottoman ... pedicure ... point well taken ... personal shopper ... normalcy

Words from the White House

493ab035-a1e8-4687-95ee-cb3b996c688e-1

BOB WOODWARD'S NEW BOOK, RAGE, IS AN UNPRECEDENTED AND INTIMATE TOUR DE FORCE OF NEW REPORTING ON THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY FACING A GLOBAL PANDEMIC, ECONOMIC DISASTER AND RACIAL UNREST.
 
Woodward, the No 1 international bestselling author of Fear: Trump in the White House, has uncovered the precise moment the president was warned that the Covid-19 epidemic would be the biggest national security threat to his presidency. In dramatic detail, Woodward takes readers into the Oval Office as Trump's head pops up when he is told in January 2020 that the pandemic could reach the scale of the 1918 Spanish Flu that killed 675,000 Americans.

In 17 on-the-record interviews with Woodward over seven volatile months - an utterly vivid window into Trump's mind - the president provides a self-portrait that is part denial and part combative interchange mixed with surprising moments of doubt as he glimpses the perils in the presidency and what he calls the 'dynamite behind every door'. At key decision points, Rage shows how Trump's responses to the crises of 2020 were rooted in the instincts, habits and style he developed during his first three years as president.

Revisiting the earliest days of the Trump presidency, Rage reveals how Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats struggled to keep the country safe as the president dismantled any semblance of collegial national security decision making. Rage draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with first-hand witnesses as well as participants' notes, emails, diaries, calendars and confidential documents.

Woodward obtained 25 never-seen personal letters exchanged between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who describes the bond between the two leaders as out of a 'fantasy film'. Trump insists to Woodward he will triumph over Covid-19 and the economic calamity. 'Don't worry about it, Bob. Okay?' Trump told the author in July. 'Don't worry about it. We'll get to do another book. You'll find I was right.'
 

Rage

56bbaa3c-df2e-465e-b80b-66bf265b7100-1

Bob Woodward

Louisiana

Inside the Bush White House

An account based on interviews with top officials surveys the first eighteen months of the Bush administration to consider how the president and his advisors are responding to wartime circumstances and a faltering economy.

Bush at War

3d1d9bbb-9ef8-4c8e-9d95-4b2a1b856d14-1

#hardcover #nonfiction #presidents #politics 

Connecticut

Michigan

"
At the beginning of the century, the majority of Americans were satisfied with the way things were going in the United States. And then a slow decline began, seemingly uninterrupted by changes in party or achievements by the White House. As the campaigning for the next president begins, the question we ask ourselves now is who will be the most competent leader? In Why Presidents Fail and How They Can Succeed Again, Elaine Kamarck asks another important question: When did Americans lose faith in their leaders? And how can they get it back?

Kamarack argues that presidents today spent too much time talking, and not enough time governing. After decades of "imperial" and "rhetorical" presidencies, we are in need of a "managerial" president. In her fully readable and accessible book, she explains the difficulties of governing in our modern political landscape, and offers examples and recommendations of how our next president can not only recreate faith in leadership, but also run a competent, successful administration.
"

Why Presidents Fail and How They Can Succeed Again

eeb6d5d1-84f2-4f10-8184-a5d586334a84-1

Texas

The Founding Fathers 

John Adams: A Biography in His Own Words 

Stephen Mansfield

Bush's Spiritual Journey and How It Shapes His Administration

Explores the religious beliefs that shape the political goals, policies, and leadership of George W. Bush, revealing how his faith helped him overcome an alcohol dependency and marital strain and how it continues to sustain him.

The Faith of George W. Bush

a3a01bb6-760f-4dd7-869c-520c0cad7e2a-1

#hardcover #nonfiction #history #lincoln #killinglincoln #abrahamlincoln #presidents 

The Shocking Assassination That Changed America

Describes the events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the hunt to track down John Wilkes Booth and his accomplices.

Killing Lincoln

220931ae-bcd5-4ca9-a4de-c608f278eb70-1

Delaware

The Tragedy of Richard Nixon

TheNew York Times Bestseller

A shocking and riveting look at one of the most dramatic and disastrous presidencies in US history, from Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Tim Weiner

Based largely on documents declassified only in the last few years,One Man Against the Worldpaints a devastating portrait of a tortured yet brilliant man who led the country largely according to a deep-seated insecurity and distrust of not only his cabinet and congress, but the American population at large. In riveting, tick-tock prose, Weiner illuminates how the Vietnam War and the Watergate controversy that brought about Nixon's demise were inextricably linked. From the hail of garbage and curses that awaited Nixon upon his arrival at the White House, when he became the president of a nation as deeply divided as it had been since the end of the Civil War, to the unprecedented action Nixon took against American citizens, who he considered as traitorous as the army of North Vietnam, to the infamous break-in and the tapes that bear remarkable record of the most intimate and damning conversations between the president and his confidantes, Weiner narrates the history of Nixon's anguished presidency in fascinating and fresh detail.

A crucial new look at the greatest political suicide in history,One Man Against the World leaves us not only with new insight into this tumultuous period, but also into the motivations and demons of an American president who saw enemies everywhere, and, thinking the world was against him, undermined the foundations of the country he had hoped to lead.

One Man Against the World

3b22bfa9-3215-4e99-862a-6094eed85bf2-1

#RonaldReagan #hardcover #nonfiction #presidents #biography #history #americanhistory #reagan 

Utah

Fulfilling Ronald Reagan's Vision for America

Proposes ways to return to the optimism of the 1980s

The City on a Hill

bca1a777-f99a-4b81-96bf-030f59dac311-1

Please note that while the book is in good contact and condition, the dust jacket is ripped. Priced accordingly. #fiveringssixcrisessevendwarfsand38waystowinanargument. #numericallist. #Trivia #Mythology #Religion #Geography #BathroomBook #Presidents #Fun #Educational #YouProbablyForgot box, 28

Can you name: The Twelve Knights of the Round Table? The Eight Notes of the Musical Scale? The Three Stooges? The Ten Commandments? Santa's Eight Reindeer? The Dynamic Duo? In this fact-filled compilation of over 280 lists, John Boswell and Dan Starer go by the numbers with twenty-four categories from American Culture to Sports and Games, Christianity to Science and Nature -- each selected to educate as well as intrigue, amuse, and challenge. History nuts, sports buffs, and infoholics of every age will appreciate and enjoy this cleverly designed and entertainingly illustrated book.

Five Rings, Six Crises, Seven Dwarfs and 38 Ways to Win an Argument

727ddc30-6f36-4a93-9c7e-3393edf40366-1

Virginia

How Two American Presidents Destroyed Constitutional Freedom

"Either the Constitution means what it says, or it doesn't."

America's founding fathers saw freedom as a part of our nature to be protected--not to be usurped by the federal government--and so enshrined separation of powers and guarantees of freedom  in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. But a little over a hundred years after America's founding, those God-given rights were laid siege by two presidents caring more about the advancement of progressive, redistributionist ideology than the principles on which America was founded.

Theodore and Woodrow is Judge Andrew P. Napolitano's shocking historical account of how a Republican and a Democratic president oversaw the greatest shift in power in American history, from a land built on the belief that authority should be left to the individuals and the states to a bloated, far-reaching federal bureaucracy, continuing to grow and consume power each day.

With lessons rooted in history, Judge Napolitano shows the intellectually arrogant, anti-personal freedom, even racist progressive philosophy driving these men to poison the American system of government. 

And Americans still pay for their legacy--in the federal income, in state-prescribed compulsory education, in the Federal Reserve, in perpetual wars, and in the constant encroachment of a government that coddles special interests and discourages true competition in the marketplace.

With his attention to detail, deep constitutional knowledge, and unwavering adherence to truth telling, Judge Napolitano moves through the history of these men and their times in office to show how American values and the Constitution were sadly set aside, leaving personal freedom as a shadow of its former self,  in the grip of an insidious, Nanny state, progressive ideology.

Theodore and Woodrow

00340776-b205-4dc6-96d9-39fefad4e422-1

#hardcover #nonfiction #history #briankilmeade #politicalhistory #politics #presidents #thomasjefferson #pristinecondition #bestsellingauthor

Florida

Entertaining, up-to-the minute, and easy-to-use, The Look-It-Up Book of Presidents features a short, lively biography of every president from George Washington through the winner of the 2012 presidential election, plus a chapter on Election 2000--the "year of the chad." It includes concise descriptions of the major events, issues, and achievements of each administration, and is fully illustrated in black and white with engravings, cartoons, and photographs.  In-print and updated after every presidential election since 1968, it's an easy-to-use, affordable alternative to hardcover home reference books like National Geographic's Our Country's Presidents at $24.95. An invaluable resource that the whole family will turn to again and again, The Look-It-Up Book of Presidents is American history in a nutshell.

Look-It-Up Book of Presidents

d49328ee-1bcb-44b7-9175-1a83e2422e9d-1

Older book, great condition though. #hardcover #roosevelt #whitehouse #political #historical #fiction #murder #mystery #presidents #crime

Missouri

An Eleanor Roosevelt Mystery 

Murder in the Blue Room

A Portrait of My Father

3aad1b2f-7a7f-4250-8c35-f2ed20d620c4-1

What Made Ronald Reagan Great and Why It Matters

WHAT MADE RONALD REAGAN TICK? What was the secret to his greatness, the source of his influence, the key to his character, the strength behind his leadership? And why does it matter to the nation today? Just the mention of his name still evokes deep admiration and affection among Americans of every stripe, on both sides of the aisle. Many have previously sought to capture the essence of this very public figure often called "mysterious and unknowable." But now, as James Rosebush tells Reagan's story from first-hand experience in TRUE REAGAN, we come closer to understanding the heart of this great American. In his roles as the longest-serving Chief of Staff to Nancy Reagan and Deputy Assistant to President Reagan (his point man on philanthropy and public/private partnerships), James Rosebush had unrivaled one-on-one access to Reagan, observing his personality, his decision-making, his guarded nature. Rosebush's revelations are moving and meant to inspire us to look to our 40th President for guidance now as we face the global challenges of a complicated 21st century. Ronald Reagan was first and foremost an intensely private person, although the life he led placed him at the center of people's attention from his earliest years. Small-town boy and college athlete, sportscaster and lifelong sports fan, actor and movie star, union leader and TV spokesman, Democrat and Republican, governor and president: what an incredible and extraordinary path. Rosebush tells how his center core was formed by his mother, who devoted herself to helping others even as the Reagans struggled themselves. The spiritual foundation she instilled in him by teaching him the Bible governed his thoughts, beliefs and actions all his life. In a very real sense, his upbringing destined Reagan to become a global evangelist for American Exceptionalism - but importantly, as Rosebush learned first-hand, that did not mean Reagan thought Americans themselves were superior, as today's pundits and politicians often preach. Rather, Reagan believed that the ideals of America's founding were superior, enabling all Americans to live lives based on high ideals and spiritual principles, and thus achieve unparalleled success. Reagan was uniquely able to lead from true conviction and strength, his confidence stemming from an unshakeable fundamental belief system. Better understanding the essence of this inspiring and principled leader is critical to our future. Journey back with Rosebush through the innumerable examples he recounts from first-hand observation and marvel once again at TRUE REAGAN.

True Reagan

b11daa2f-9f9d-4128-b429-f6b17377ae26-1

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Fascinating Facts about Each and Every President, Including an American History Timeline

Fascinating Facs about Each and Every President, including an American History Timeline and Portraits from the Smithsonian Institution! This perennial childhood favorite combines presidential portraits from the National Portrait Gallery with fun, engrossing text written by two historians. A continuous timeline flowing through the book notes milestones in literature, invention, and politics within each president's tenure.

Save this search

gerard i nierenberg

the art of negotiating

Brian Kilmeade; Don Yaeger

Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates

Brian Kilmeade; Don Yaeger

Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates

Kate Messner; Adam Rex

The Next President

Kevin R. C. Gutzman

James Madison and the Making of America

Hugh Sidey; Life Books Editors

Portraits of the Presidents

Paul Dickson; Gretchen Achilles

Words from the White House

Bob Woodward

Rage

Bob Woodward

Bush at War

Bob Woodward

Bush at War

Elaine C. Kamarck

Why Presidents Fail and How They Can Succeed Again

James Bishop Peabody

John Adams: A Biography in His Own Words

Stephen Mansfield

The Faith of George W. Bush

Bill O'Reilly; Martin Dugard

Killing Lincoln

Tim Weiner

One Man Against the World

Michael Reagan; James D. Denney

The City on a Hill

John Boswell; Dan Starer

Five Rings, Six Crises, Seven Dwarfs and 38 Ways to Win an Argument

Andrew P. Napolitano

Theodore and Woodrow

Brian Kilmeade; Don Yaeger

Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates

Wyatt Blassingame; Alice Jonaitis (Editor)

Look-It-Up Book of Presidents

Elliott Roosevelt

Murder in the Blue Room

George W. Bush

41

James Rosebush

True Reagan

Todd Davis; Marc Frey

The New Big Book of U. S. Presidents