Books like John Adams
12 books with a reading profile close to John Adams by David McCullough. Deep, outward-looking and clear-cut; a moderate read.
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
Also deep and outward-looking · history, biography
Doris Kearns Goodwin chronicles the internal dynamics of the White House between 1940 and 1945, focusing on the symbiotic but strained partnership between Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
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2
Alexander Hamilton
by Ron Chernow
Also outward-looking · history, biography
Ron Chernow chronicles the life of the first U.S.
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3
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
by Kai Bird
Also deep and clear-cut · history, biography
Kai Bird and Martin J.
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4
Washington: A Life
by Ron Chernow
Also deep and outward-looking · history, biography
Ron Chernow provides a chronological investigation of George Washington’s evolution from an ambitious frontier land surveyor into the unifying figure of the American Revolution and the first federal administration.
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5
Van Gogh: The Life
Also clear-cut · history, biography
Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith utilize a decade of research and thousands of family letters to reconstruct Vincent van Gogh's life beyond the myth of the "mad artist." The biography details his failed careers as…
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Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, biography
Robert K.
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The princes in the tower
by Alison Weir
history, biography
Alison Weir investigates the 1483 disappearance of Edward V and Richard, Duke of York, from the Tower of London.
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8
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
by Jon Meacham
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, biography
Jon Meacham focuses on the two terms of Andrew Jackson’s presidency, centering the narrative on the White House as a site of both political and domestic struggle.
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9
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
history, biography
Jon Lee Anderson utilizes previously unavailable diaries and government archives to reconstruct the logistical and ideological trajectory of Ernesto Guevara.
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10
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, biography
Walter Isaacson chronicles the life of the most versatile Founding Father, tracing his evolution from a runaway apprentice in Boston to a world-renowned scientist and diplomat.
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
by Andrea Wulf
Also clear-cut · history, biography
Andrea Wulf chronicles the life of Alexander von Humboldt, the nineteenth-century Prussian naturalist who envisioned the earth as a single living organism where all biological and physical forces are interconnected.
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12
Marie Antoinette: The Journey
Also clear-cut · history, biography
Antonia Fraser reconstructs the life of the last Queen of France, moving from her childhood as an Austrian archduchess to her execution during the French Revolution.
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