Books like Washington: A Life
12 books with a reading profile close to Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow. Deep and outward-looking; 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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John Adams
Also deep and outward-looking · history, biography
David McCullough chronicles the life of the second American president, focusing on his intellectual rigor and his central role in the Continental Congress.
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Alexander Hamilton
by Ron Chernow
Also outward-looking · history, biography
Ron Chernow chronicles the life of the first U.S.
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
by Kai Bird
Also deep · history, biography
Kai Bird and Martin J.
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Grant
by Ron Chernow
Also deep and outward-looking · history, biography
Ron Chernow’s biography provides a comprehensive account of Ulysses S.
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Also deep and outward-looking · history, dense
Barbara Tuchman uses the life of Enguerrand de Coucy VII, a French nobleman, to map the social and political upheavals of medieval Europe.
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Van Gogh: The Life
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 · history, biography
Robert K.
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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
by Jon Meacham
Also outward-looking · 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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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Also outward-looking · 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 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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