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Related Reading: “Tecumseh and the Prophet” by Peter Cozzens

February 24, 2021

Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation by Peter Cozzens 533 pages Alfred A. Knopf Published: …

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Review of “The Age of Eisenhower” by William I. Hitchcock

February 15, 2021

William Hitchcock’s “The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s” was published in 2018. Hitchcock is a …

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Related Reading: “John C. Calhoun: American Portrait” by Margaret Coit

January 28, 2021

John C. Calhoun: American Portrait by Margaret L. Coit 616 pages Houghton Mifflin Published: 1950 Published 100 years after Calhoun’s …

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Review of “John Quincy Adams: American Visionary” by Fred Kaplan

January 19, 2021

Fred Kaplan’s 2014 “John Quincy Adams: American Visionary” is one of the most recent and comprehensive biographies of the sixth …

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Related Reading: “The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams” by David S. Brown

January 4, 2021

The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams by David S. Brown 464 pages Scribner …

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Review of “Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times” by Kenneth Whyte

December 26, 2020

Published in 2017, Kenneth Whyte’s “Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times” is the most recent biography of the 31st …

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Related Reading: “Eleanor” by David Michaelis

December 4, 2020

Eleanor by David Michaelis 720 pages Simon & Schuster Published: October 2020 Published just two months ago, “Eleanor” is the …

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Review of “Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times” by David Reynolds

November 24, 2020

David Reynolds’s “Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times” was published seven weeks ago (September 2020) and is currently the best …

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Related Reading: “Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.” by Ron Chernow

November 3, 2020

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow 832 pages Random House (Vintage Books) Published: May 1998 …

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Review of “His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life” by Jonathan Alter

October 25, 2020

Jonathan Alter’s long-awaited biography of the thirty-ninth president “His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life” was published last month (September …

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Related Reading: “The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III” by Peter Baker

October 12, 2020

The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser …

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Review of “Washington” by Douglas Southall Freeman (Harwell abridgment)

September 30, 2020

Richard Harwell’s abridgment of Douglas Southall Freeman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 7-volume series on George Washington was published in 1968, fifteen years …

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Related Reading: “The Scourge of War: The Life of William Tecumseh Sherman” by Brian Holden Reid

August 22, 2020

The Scourge of War: The Life of William Tecumseh Sherman by Brian Holden Reid 640 pages Oxford University Press Published: …

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Review of “President without a Party: The Life of John Tyler” by Christopher Leahy

August 13, 2020

Christopher J. Leahy’s “President without a Party: The Life of John Tyler” was published earlier this year. It is the …

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Related Reading: “Churchill: Walking With Destiny” by Andrew Roberts

June 29, 2020

Churchill: Walking With Destiny by Andrew Roberts 1,152 pages Viking Published: October 2018 Andrew Roberts’s biography “Churchill: Walking with Destiny” …

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