Central Kansas Library System

President Bill Clinton's my life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public. This is his story.

Plain Speaking is the bestselling book based on conversations between Merle Miller and the thirty-third President of the United States, Harry S. Truman. From these interviews, as well as others who knew him over the years, Miller transcribes Truman's feisty takes on everything from his personal life, military service, and political career to the challenges he faced in taking the office during the final days of World War II and the beginning of the...

"Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and inept businessman, or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War. But these stereotypes don't come close to capturing him, as Ron Chernow shows in his masterful biography, the first to provide a complete understanding of the general and president whose fortunes rose and fell with dizzying speed and frequency."--Book jacket....

During his two terms as the fortieth president of the United States, Ronald Reagan kept a daily diary in which he recorded, by hand, his innermost thoughts and observations on the extraordinary, the historic, and the routine day-to-day occurrences of his presidency. Whether he was in his White House residence study or aboard Air Force One, from his first inauguration to the end of the Cold War, each night Reagan wrote about the events of his day....

Follows the life of Jimmy Carter, including his childhood, education, employment, political career, and term of presidency.

Surveys the childhood, education, employment, and political career of the Civil War president.

"Little Ike remembered growing up in his home town fondly, even after he became a famous world leader. "Abilene is just another small town," Little Ike told himself, "no different from all the others that dot the plains." But it had not always been that way. When he told his Uncle Abe, his older relative just shook his head and said, "Once Abilene was the first cowtown, full of cowboys and longhorn cattle. Once Wild Bill Hickok was the lawman here."...