 | Churchill: A Biography by Roy Jenkins
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 a wonderful biography by someone who held all but one of the same public offices
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 | An Unfinished Life : John F. Kennedy 1917-1963 by Robert Dallek
Buy new: £15.29 / Used from: £1.34 beautifully written and balanced - an extraordinary life with warts, painkillers and all - and would he have won reelection had he not been assassinated??
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 | Clinton: The President They Deserve by Martin Walker
Buy used from: £0.01 provocative title but interesting book - written soon after his 2nd term began so the Lewinski stuff was only just brewing
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 | In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in the Congo by Michela Wrong
Buy new: £5.35 / Used from: £1.73 a study of Mobutu and his kleptocratic Zaire/Congo
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 | The Prime Minister: The Job and Its Holders Since 1945 by Peter Hennessy
Buy new: £10.46 / Used from: £5.89 all British Prime Ministers since Attlee - who's the best?
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 | Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate by Bob Woodward
Buy new: £9.89 / Used from: £0.72 a survey of the impact of Watergate on 5 presidents by the reknowned journalist who uncovered it all
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 | American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush: How the Bush Clan Became the World's Most Powerful and Dangerous Family by Kevin Phillips
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £0.65 hard to know what's fact and what's fiction - but if even half of this stuff is true of the Bush family, then there are many things to be concerned about
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 | Talk of the Devil by Riccardo Orizio
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £0.44 dictators - they all got away with it for so long - the combination of the age-old lust for power and the unique 20th C advances in technology and warfare made for some terrifying results
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 | Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives by Alan Bullock
Buy new: £10.88 / Used from: £0.67 who was worse? the greatest tragedy of the 20th C was that one of these two men had to win the Second World War - a brilliant book
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 | The Holocaust by Martin Gilbert
Buy new: £10.88 / Used from: £4.97 not a life as such but it affects us all - inevitably heavy but a more detailed analysis you could not find:how David Irving et al think they can get away with denying it, beats me - incredible book
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 | Mandela: The Authorised Biography by Anthony Sampson
Buy new: £6.91 / Used from: £0.01 my favourite book on Mandela (there are too many to choose from these days) - warts and all, real and remarkable
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 | American Century by Martin Walker
Buy used from: £0.01 America dominated the 20th Century - here are profiles of lives that dominated America
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