NYT - Hardcover Nonfiction

New York Times - Hardcover Nonfiction

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Book cover for "Confronting the presidents"
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#3 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-10-13. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).
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"Every American president, from Washington to Biden: Their lives, policies, foibles, and legacies, assessed with clear-eyed authority and wit. Authors of the acclaimed Killing books, the #1 bestselling narrative history series in the world, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard begin a new direction with Confronting the Presidents. From Washington to Jefferson, Lincoln to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Kennedy to Nixon, Reagan to Obama and Biden, the 45 United...
Book cover for "Lucky loser"
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#11 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-10-13. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).
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"Soon after announcing his first campaign for the US presidency, Donald J. Trump told a national television audience that life 'has not been easy for me. It has not been easy for me.' Building on a narrative he had been telling for decades, he spun a hardscrabble fable of how he parlayed a small loan from his father into a multi-billion-dollar business and real estate empire. This feat, he argued, made him singularly qualified to lead the country....
Book cover for "The demon of unrest"
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4.5 stars
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#14 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-10-13. It has been on the list for 21 week(s).
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"On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter. ...[An] account of the chaotic...