Controversial Books for ccarson

This page shows the most "controversial" books in this library, as measured by the highest standard deviation of members' star ratings.

Standard Deviation Average Rating Your Rating Title
1.207 3.51 Going Rogue: An American Life by Sarah Palin
1.181 3.16 The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush by David Frum
1.171 3.68 A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America by Stacy Schiff
1.161 3.61 A Charge to Keep by George W. Bush
1.161 3.57 America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink by Kenneth M. Stampp
1.131 3.7 Abraham Lincoln by Benjamin P. Thomas
1.093 3.25 Lion in the White House: A Life of Theodore Roosevelt by Aida D. Donald
1.093 3.7 President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime by Lou Cannon
1.085 3.96 Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud That Defined a Decade by Jeff Shesol
1.082 4.22 George Washington, the Forge of Experience, 1732-1775 by James Thomas Flexner
1.069 3.45 James Madison: A Biography by Ralph Ketcham
1.068 3.47 RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon by Richard Nixon
1.056 3.89 Kennedy by Theodore C. Sorensen
1.053 3.78 Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight by Karl Rove
1.049 3.6 If Kennedy Lived: The First and Second Terms of President John F. Kennedy: An Alternate History by Jeff Greenfield
1.041 3.63 The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon by John Ferling
1.041 3.75 First Mothers: The Women Who Shaped the Presidents by Bonnie Angelo
1.037 3.72 All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings by George H. W. Bush
1.032 3.86 The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage by Daniel Mark Epstein
1.031 3.74 The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers by Thomas Fleming
1.031 3.76 White House Diary by Jimmy Carter
1.029 3.29 Andrew Johnson by Annette Gordon-Reed
1.027 3.76 The Stranger and the Statesman: James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, and the Making of America's Greatest Museum: The Smithsonian by Nina Burleigh
1.016 3.49 Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush by Robert Draper
1.007 3.92 The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
1.005 3.69 The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America by Douglas Brinkley
1.002 3.45 A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton by Carl Bernstein
1.002 3 Millard Fillmore by Paul Finkelman
0.993 3.59 46 Pages by Scott Liell
0.989 3.95 An American Life: The Autobiography by Ronald Reagan
0.987 3.84 In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir by Dick Cheney
0.987 3.88 The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800 by Jay Winik
0.986 3.68 The Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution (Stonesong Press Books) by Linda R. Monk
0.984 3.72 The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 by Evan Thomas
0.981 3.92 Saratoga, Turning Point of America's Revolutionary War by Richard M. Ketchum
0.98 3.48 The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour M. Hersh
0.977 3.43 My Life by Bill Clinton
0.977 3.73 Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department by Dean Acheson
0.972 3.72 The Pity of War: Explaining World War I by Niall Ferguson
0.97 3.41 Our First Revolution: The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America's Founding Fathers by Michael Barone
0.965 4.11 The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays by Richard Hofstadter
0.962 3.98 The Year of Decision: 1846 by Bernard DeVoto
0.959 3.97 A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War by Amanda Foreman
0.956 3.59 The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 by Charles Grier Sellers
0.955 3.45 Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
0.955 4.33 Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire, 1767-1821 by Robert V. Remini
0.954 3.69 The Boys of Pointe du Hoc: Ronald Reagan, D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion by Douglas Brinkley
0.951 3.06 A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy by Thomas Reeves
0.948 3.79 Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned The Tide in the Second World War by Paul Kennedy
0.943 4.12 The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant
0.942 3.64 Obama's Wars by Bob Woodward
0.942 3.77 Dog Company: The Boys of Pointe du Hoc--the Rangers Who Accomplished D-Day's Toughest Mission and Led the Way across Europe by Patrick K. O'Donnell
0.941 3.87 Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960 by Robert Dallek
0.938 3.97 The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence by Gerald Blaine
0.938 4.09 Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness by Joshua Wolf Shenk
0.935 4.03 The Americans : The democratic experience by Daniel Boorstin
0.934 3.68 The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country by Laton McCartney
0.932 3.3 History of the First World War by B. H. Liddell Hart
0.93 3.81 Coolidge by Amity Shlaes
0.93 4.13 Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 by Pauline Maier
0.929 3.99 Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World by David Brion Davis
0.926 3.8 Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America by Jack Rakove
0.918 3.95 The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough
0.916 3.58 Kennedy and Nixon: The Rivalry That Shaped Postwar America by Christopher J. Matthews
0.915 3.68 Benjamin Franklin by Edmund S. Morgan
0.913 3.67 The President Is a Sick Man: Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspaperman Who Dared Expose the Truth by Matthew Algeo
0.913 3.91 The Americans: The Colonial Experience by Daniel Boorstin
0.911 4.08 Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction by Eric Foner
0.91 4.34 The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861 by David M. Potter
0.907 4.06 A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
0.907 4.11 Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861 by William W. Freehling
0.906 3.47 Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America by Richard White
0.904 3.57 White House Years by Henry A. Kissinger
0.902 3.88 The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin by Gordon S. Wood
0.902 3.92 Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson
0.901 3.71 James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights by Richard Labunski
0.9 3.55 All Too Human: A Political Education by George Stephanopoulos
0.898 3.22 Bush at War by Bob Woodward
0.898 3.81 My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams by Abigail Adams
0.896 3.58 Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns Goodwin
0.896 3.67 Known and Unknown: A Memoir by Donald Rumsfeld
0.895 3.46 Woodrow Wilson by H. W. Brands
0.895 4.26 All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery by Henry Mayer
0.894 3.7 Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President by Jimmy Carter
0.894 3.97 A Magnificent Catastrophe by Edward J. Larson
0.893 3.82 Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington by Richard Brookhiser
0.892 3.97 Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence by Garry Wills
0.892 3.38 The Obamas by Jodi Kantor
0.891 3.9 Barbara Bush: A Memoir by Barbara Bush
0.891 4.23 Gettysburg: The Last Invasion by Allen C. Guelzo
0.89 3.48 Plan of Attack by Bob Woodward
0.89 3.52 President Nixon: Alone in the White House by Richard Reeves
0.889 3.41 Zachary Taylor by John S. D. Eisenhower
0.889 3.32 James Buchanan by Jean H. Baker
0.888 3.5 Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876 by Roy Morris Jr.
0.885 4.24 America's Constitution: A Biography by Akhil Reed Amar
0.884 3.78 Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography by Jean H. Baker
0.884 4.15 Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner
0.881 3.29 The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat by Bob Woodward
0.88 3.52 Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts
0.879 3.89 The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance by Ron Chernow
0.877 4.14 Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley
0.874 4.04 The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
0.873 3.61 Renegade: The Making of a President by Richard Wolffe
0.873 4.11 Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation by Deborah Davis
0.872 4.2 The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam
0.87 3.5 An Honest President: The Life and Presidencies of Grover Cleveland by H. P. Jeffers
0.863 3.11 Thomas Jefferson by Joyce Appleby
0.863 4.17 The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience by Kirstin Downey
0.862 3.8 An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 by Robert Dallek
0.857 4.17 Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. Wood
0.854 3.68 The Haldeman Diaries: Inside the Nixon White House by H. R. Haldeman
0.853 3.88 The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States by Gordon S. Wood
0.852 4.06 The Americans: The National Experience by Daniel Boorstin
0.851 3.87 Spoken from the Heart by Laura Bush
0.85 4.2 Madison and Jefferson by Andrew Burstein
0.849 3.72 American Lion by Jon Meacham
0.848 3.94 The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns by Sasha Issenberg
0.847 3.74 The Making of the President 1972 by Theodore H. White
0.846 3.5 James Madison by Richard Brookhiser
0.845 3.89 Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Robert F. Kennedy
0.843 3.88 Theodore Roosevelt by Nathan Miller
0.842 4.04 The Age of Jackson by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
0.841 3.67 Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House by Sally Bedell Smith
0.841 3.64 The War Within by Bob Woodward
0.84 3.75 An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America by Henry Wiencek
0.838 4.17 The Death of a President: November 20-November 25, 1963 by William Manchester
0.837 3.93 Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
0.837 4 The Making of the President 1968 by Theodore H. White
0.836 4.04 The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 by Robert Middlekauff
0.835 3.8 State of Denial by Bob Woodward
0.833 4.06 1776 by David McCullough
0.832 4.1 Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills
0.832 3.56 Samuel Adams: A Life by Ira Stoll
0.831 3.76 Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election by Jeffrey Toobin
0.831 4.17 Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield by Kenneth D. Ackerman
0.831 3.64 In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam by Robert S. McNamara
0.831 3.77 American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation by Jon Meacham
0.831 3.66 Alexander Hamilton: American by Richard Brookhiser
0.83 4.3 The Reagan Diaries by Ronald Reagan
0.83 3.82 Coolidge: An American Enigma by Robert Sobel
0.83 3.92 The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words by Ronald C. White
0.829 3.63 The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory by Robert V. Remini
0.827 3.92 Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War by Robert M. Gates
0.824 3.74 The American Revolution: A History by Gordon S. Wood
0.824 3.85 Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural by Ronald C. White
0.824 4.11 Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose
0.824 4.04 Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation by Richard Norton Smith
0.823 3.99 Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
0.822 4.08 The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory by David Plouffe
0.821 4.05 T.R.: The Last Romantic by H. W. Brands
0.821 3.98 Madam Secretary: A Memoir by Madeleine K. Albright
0.818 3.95 Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship by Jon Meacham
0.817 3.94 True Compass: A Memoir by Edward M. Kennedy
0.815 4.14 With Malice Toward None by Stephen B. Oates
0.815 4.37 Grant by Jean Edward Smith
0.814 4.02 American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence by Pauline Maier
0.814 3.34 James Madison by Garry Wills
0.814 4.16 Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
0.813 3.94 The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt by Eleanor Roosevelt
0.812 3.48 Andrew Jackson by Sean Wilentz
0.811 3.46 The Clinton Wars: An Insider's Account of the White House Years by Sidney Blumenthal
0.811 4.19 The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn
0.811 4.1 Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam by Mark Bowden
0.81 4.11 The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace by H. W. Brands
0.809 3.87 Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy by Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis
0.809 3.88 Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different by Gordon S. Wood
0.809 3.69 Counsel to the President: A Memoir by Clark Clifford
0.809 3.95 Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann
0.809 3.8 No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington by Condoleezza Rice
0.808 4.09 Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson
0.807 3.99 Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
0.806 4.23 Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery by Leon F. Litwack
0.805 4.27 Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 by Fred Anderson
0.805 4.23 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies by David Pietrusza
0.805 3.3 The Price of Politics by Bob Woodward
0.805 4.21 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
0.805 4.13 D Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II by Stephen E. Ambrose
0.803 4.03 The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga by Doris Kearns Goodwin
0.8 3.6 George Washington (The American Presidents Series) by James MacGregor Burns
0.798 3.94 Blind Ambition: The White House Years by John Dean
0.798 4.13 Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt by David McCullough
0.796 4.14 Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution by Benson Bobrick
0.796 3.68 The Battle for America 2008: The Story of an Extraordinary Election by Dan Baltz
0.796 3.72 Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero by Michael Korda
0.796 3.86 Double Cross : The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre
0.794 3.87 Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America by Thomas Fleming
0.791 3.46 Calvin Coolidge by David Greenberg
0.791 4.28 The Second World War {complete} by Winston S. Churchill
0.79 4.08 First Family: Abigail and John Adams by Joseph J. Ellis
0.789 3.61 Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power by Robert Dallek
0.789 3.47 William Henry Harrison by Gail Collins
0.789 3.96 American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis
0.789 3.91 Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman by Merle Miller
0.788 3.87 Cronkite by Douglas Brinkley
0.786 4.06 The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. White
0.786 3.54 James K. Polk by John Seigenthaler
0.785 3.95 Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 by John Ferling
0.782 4.02 Lincoln’s Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words by Douglas L. Wilson
0.782 4.07 Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan by Del Quentin Wilber
0.781 4.05 The Boys on the Bus by Timothy Crouse
0.78 4.22 Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow
0.779 3.7 Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams by Lynne Withey
0.778 4.1 Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History by Ted Sorensen
0.777 4.02 Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World by Evan Thomas
0.775 4.17 Nixon: The Education of a Politician 1913-1962 by Stephen E. Ambrose
0.774 3.92 History of the Second World War by B. H. Liddell Hart
0.774 4.26 An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943 by Rick Atkinson
0.773 4.23 Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein
0.772 4.06 Citizen Soldiers : The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany by Stephen E. Ambrose
0.771 4.32 John Adams by David McCullough
0.766 3.5 Warren G. Harding by John W. Dean
0.766 4.02 George Washington: The Founding Father by Paul Johnson
0.765 4.07 Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan
0.765 4.3 No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin
0.765 4.14 A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic by John Ferling
0.763 4.09 Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by H. W. Brands
0.763 4.04 Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye: Memories of John Fitzgerald Kennedy by Kenneth P. O'Donnell
0.763 3.97 Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life by Carlo D'Este
0.761 4.06 Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick
0.76 3.96 Day of Infamy by Walter Lord
0.759 4.18 Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
0.757 4.33 FDR by Jean Edward Smith
0.755 4.17 Ike: An American Hero by Michael Korda
0.754 4.07 Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams by Joseph J. Ellis
0.753 3.95 American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis
0.751 4.19 Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
0.75 4.24 The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis by Ernest R. May
0.75 4.08 The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope by Jonathan Alter
0.749 3.95 The Promise: President Obama, Year One by Jonathan Alter
0.748 3.34 Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Roy Jenkins
0.747 4.01 The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity by Nancy Gibbs
0.747 3.85 The First World War by John Keegan
0.747 3.9 A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan by Michael Kazin
0.746 4.02 Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times by H. W. Brands
0.745 4.25 The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark
0.744 4.15 The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 by Gordon S. Wood
0.743 4.19 The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
0.742 3.61 1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs--The Election that Changed the Country by James Chace
0.742 4.33 Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
0.742 4.1 The Winter Soldiers: The Battles for Trenton and Princeton by Richard M. Ketchum
0.741 3.65 John Quincy Adams by Robert V. Remini
0.741 3.8 Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero by Chris Matthews
0.739 3.84 Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson by Alan Pell Crawford
0.739 3.74 The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President by Taylor Branch
0.738 4.4 Truman by David McCullough
0.737 4.05 The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama by David Remnick
0.736 4.03 Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy by Annette Gordon-Reed
0.733 4.39 Means of Ascent by Robert A. Caro
0.732 4.2 Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America by Fergus M. Bordewich
0.732 3.52 To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders by Bernard Bailyn
0.731 4.2 The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin
0.73 4.35 Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
0.729 3.94 Presidential Leadership: Rating the Best and the Worst in the White House by James Taranto
0.729 3.9 The Making of the President 1964 by Theodore H. White
0.728 4.1 Woodrow Wilson: A Biography by John Milton Cooper Jr.
0.728 4.44 Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
0.727 3.38 Ulysses S. Grant by Josiah Bunting
0.726 4.23 Jefferson Davis, American by William J. Cooper
0.725 4.09 The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America by Thurston Clarke
0.724 3.56 The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House by Bob Woodward
0.724 4.43 The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
0.722 3.41 Herbert Hoover by William E. Leuchtenburg
0.72 4.17 Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom, 1940-1945 by James MacGregor Burns
0.72 4.26 When the Cheering Stopped: The Last Years of Woodrow Wilson by Gene Smith
0.719 4.13 Wilson by A. Scott Berg
0.719 3.76 Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford by Thomas M. DeFrank
0.717 4.51 The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944–1945 by Rick Atkinson
0.716 3.28 Grover Cleveland by Henry F. Graff
0.716 4.47 Pillar of Fire : America in the King Years, 1963-65 by Taylor Branch
0.715 3.78 Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage by Jeffrey Frank
0.715 4.32 Paul Revere's Ride by David Hackett Fischer
0.712 4.32 Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith
0.712 3.75 James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity by Harry Ammon
0.711 3.53 John Tyler by Gary May
0.711 3.86 Martha Washington: An American Life by Patricia Brady
0.708 3.94 John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life by Paul C. Nagel
0.706 3.99 His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis
0.705 4.15 The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800 by Stanley Elkins
0.705 4.36 The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944 by Rick Atkinson
0.703 3.74 31 Days: The Crisis That Gave Us the Government We Have Today by Barry Werth
0.7 3.75 Collision 2012: Obama vs. Romney and the Future of Elections in America by Dan Balz
0.698 4.33 Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution by Richard Beeman
0.697 3.83 Grant: A Biography by William S. McFeely
0.695 4.29 Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard
0.695 3.71 Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York by Richard Zacks
0.694 3.6 Theodore Roosevelt by Louis Auchincloss
0.693 3.94 The Imperial Presidency by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
0.692 4.2 Eisenhower, Volume 1: Soldier, General of the Army, President-Elect, 1890-1952 by Stephen E. Ambrose
0.691 4.11 Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854 by William W. Freehling
0.69 4.04 Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence by Joseph J. Ellis
0.69 3.94 Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power by David E. Sanger
0.689 4 Barack Obama: The Story by David Maraniss
0.689 4.37 Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
0.687 4.39 The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams by John Adams
0.687 4.53 Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–63 by Taylor Branch
0.682 3.33 Martin Van Buren by Ted Widmerr
0.682 4.01 John Adams: A Life by John Ferling
0.678 3.9 The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House by John F. Harris
0.677 3.93 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents by David Pietrusza
0.677 3.28 Franklin Pierce by Michael F. Holt
0.675 4.6 Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro
0.673 3.39 The Choice by Bob Woodward
0.669 4.45 The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
0.669 4.55 At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 by Taylor Branch
0.666 4.33 Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech that Made Abraham Lincoln President by Harold Holzer
0.661 3.98 Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies by J. B. West
0.659 4.34 Dallas 1963 by Bill Minutaglio
0.652 3.6 Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America by Eric Rauchway
0.638 4.39 Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox, 1882-1940 by James MacGregor Burns
0.636 4.57 The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro
0.636 4.33 The Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler by David L. Roll
0.634 4.42 What It Takes: The Way to the White House by Richard Ben Cramer
0.628 4.03 Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horwitz
0.623 4.47 Lincoln's Virtues by William Lee Miller
0.621 4.59 The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro
0.615 4.1 The Oath: The Obama White House and The Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin
0.612 4.23 The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America by John Micklethwait
0.612 4.21 Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence by John Ferling
0.606 4.23 Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941 by Lynne Olson
0.575 3.95 We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends by David Herbert Donald
0.561 3.52 Obama: From Promise to Power by David Mendell
0.557 3.63 The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs. Starr by Ken Gormley
0.554 4.2 General of the Army: George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman by Ed Cray
0.543 4.17 Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves by Henry Wiencek
0.536 3.7 Presidential Campaigns: From George Washington to George W. Bush by Paul F. Boller
0.531 4.33 Mr. Adams's Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams's Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in Congress by Joseph Wheelan
0.52 4.32 Independence: The Struggle to Set America Free by John Ferling
0.497 4.44 Margaret Thatcher: From Grantham to the Falklands by Charles Moore