The Presidential Biographies

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by David McCullough

This collection comprises David McCullough's outstanding biographies of three great presidents: John Adams, Harry S. Truman, and Theodore Roosevelt, from "one of our most gifted living writers" (The Washington Post). The Pulitzer Prize for Biography was awarded to both John Adams and Harry Truman.

The following three books will be included in this boxed set:


John Adams: The Pulitzer Prize–winning, best-selling biography of America's founding father and second president, which inspired the critically acclaimed HBO series, reads like an epic historical novel, bringing the American Revolution and the creation of the nascent republic to life.
Truman: The Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency was marked by significant events such as the atomic bombing of Japan, the Cold War, and the Korean War.
Mornings on Horseback is a National Book Award–winning biography that relates the narrative of how young Teddy Roosevelt went from being a sickly youngster to being a war hero and eventually President of the United States.

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— David McCullough, The Presidential Biographies