Presidents of War: The Epic Story, from 1807 to Modern TimesNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From a preeminent presidential historian comes a superb and important (The New York Times Book Review) saga of Americas wartime chief executives Fascinating and heartbreaking . . . timely . . . Beschlosss broad scope lets you draw important crosscutting lessons about presidential leadership.Bill Gates Widely acclaimed and ten years in the making, Michael Beschlosss Presidents of War is an intimate and irresistibly readable

His family is too poor for him to afford for him to finish school and he has to work in a teashop

sent her into exile and transformed her into a writer

and genetically-modified dinery server on death-row

Or to give up and get in the car

that we can work toward being our best and kindest selves

police were called to 16 Cheyne Walk with reports of a baby crying

and its formidable navy humbled even the renowned Portuguese mariners

finds and loses relationships

the five Melrose novels

This all changed in the 1970s with the publication of Roland Huntford's magnificent biography of Scott and Amundsen

came into the world on Valentine’s Day 1942 at a secret Harvard war research laboratory

It is an understanding made even more extraordinary by the fact that it came from the heart of a woman who lived most of her brief life in remote rural England