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presidential biographies books
The Sexiest President
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Going Upriver - The Long War of John Kerry
$0.01 Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry begins by juxtaposing beautiful images of Vietnam with horrific images of the Vietnam War. But though its depiction of the war is vivid--and the accounts of 2004 presidential candidate John Kerry's heroism, told by the men who served with him, are plain and free of hyperbole--it's his actions after he came back to the U.S. that stand out in this docum... |
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The Kennedy Mystique - Creating Camelot
$0.99 The Kennedy Mystique: Creating Camelot examines the skill with which John F. Kennedy used the media to create and sustain an image of glamour. Under Kennedy, not only was there an official White House photographer (Cecil Stoughton), but Kennedy had his own personal photographer (Jacques Lowe) who captured most of the intimate photos that have defined Kennedy in retrospect. In interviews, Stou... |
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Cocalero
$11.99 COCALERO - DVD Movie... |
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The Lies of Sarah Palin: The Untold Story Behind Her Relentless Quest for Power
$0.54 In The Lies of Sarah Palin, Geoffrey Dunn provides the first full-scale and in-depth political biography of the controversial Republican vice-presidential candidate and former governor of Alaska. Based on more than two-hundred interviews---many of them with Republican colleagues and one-time political allies of Palinâs---and more than forty-thousand pages of uncovered documents, Dunn chronicl... |
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The Presidents Club
$29.99 Amazon Best Books of the Month, April 2012: It's hard to imagine a more obviously fascinating prism through which to look at American history and politics since the end of World War II. Starting with the surprisingly effective relationship of Harry S. Truman and Herbert Hoover, and following through "Obama and His Club," TIME Magazine's Executive Editor Nancy Gibbs and Washington Bureau Chief Mich... |
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Mitt Romney
$13.50 The only independent biography of the candidate who would be President--the perfect book for anyone who wants to know more about the family, religion, and personal history that shaped Mitt Romney's political beliefs, and may drive his actions as President of The United States.... |
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The Politician: An Insider's Account of John Edwards's Pursuit of the Presidency and the Scandal That Brought Him Do
$7.99 âThe greatest political saga, the one that has it all, that gets to the real heart of American politics, is the John Edwards story... This isnât just politics, itâs literature. Itâs the great American novel, the kind that isnât written anymore.â --Michael Wolff on John Edwards's trajectory, on VanityFair.comThe underside of modern American politics -- raw ambition, ma... |
