Daisy petals and mushroom clouds

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Michael Nash

This book focuses on the political behavior of the 600,000 men in the coal and steel industries, to reveal a fascinating correlation between labor-management conflict and the fortunes of American socialism. The author presents data from election returns, newspapers, union journals, government reports, and taped interviews with retired coal miners to support the view that the alternation of conflict and accommodation, characteristic of American labor history, has broad political implications.

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F.B. Carpenter

The account of EB Carpenter's Experience painting the white house in 1863 and 1864. This includes stories about Lincoln's interactions with White House visitors including desperate job seekers, worried mothers, and orphans. Carpenter also had a chance to and hear Lincoln tell the story of his decision to abolish slavery and recite Shakespeare.

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Irving Stone

A politically-minded young lady and an awkward lawyer marry and eventually become President Abraham Lincoln and First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln.

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Jeffrey L. Pasley

Argues that, despite its passivity and lack of active campaigning, the election of 1796 set the stage for all of American politics to follow.