The Electables Podcast Historical Sources
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A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, The Mexican War, and the Conquest of the American Continent
by:
Robert W. Merry
3.83 avg rating — 7,581 ratings 
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Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876
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Roy Morris Jr.
3.67 avg rating — 522 ratings 
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
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Candice Millard
4.22 avg rating — 81,274 ratings 29. 
The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur 3.91 avg rating — 1,584 ratings
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Chester Alan Arthur (The American Presidents, #21)
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Zachary Karabell
3.82 avg rating — 1,160 ratings 31. 
The Forgotten Conservative: Rediscovering Grover Cleveland
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John M. Pafford
3.29 avg rating — 196 ratings 32. 
Grover Cleveland (The American Presidents, #22, #24)
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Henry F. Graff
3.62 avg rating — 755 ratings 
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The Edge of Anarchy: The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America
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Jack Kelly
4.09 avg rating — 417 ratings 35. 
The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century
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Scott Miller
3.95 avg rating — 4,679 ratings 36. 
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Armies of the War of the Triple Alliance 1864–70: Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay & Argentina (Men-at-Arms, 499) 3.92 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire
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Stephen Kinzer
3.95 avg rating — 1,361 ratings 39. 
Hissing Cousins: The Untold Story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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Marc Peyser
3.90 avg rating — 2,335 ratings 
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
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Laura Spinney
3.91 avg rating — 7,931 ratings 46. 
The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country
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Laton McCartney
3.79 avg rating — 761 ratings 47. 
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A City in Terror: Calvin Coolidge and the 1919 Boston Police Strike
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Francis Russell
3.57 avg rating — 76 ratings 49. 
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The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America 4.27 avg rating — 186 ratings
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Drinking with the Republicans: The Politically Incorrect History of Conservative Concoctions
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Mark Will-Weber
3.88 avg rating — 25 ratings 57. 
Drinking with the Democrats: The Party Animal's History of Liberal Libations
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Mark Will-Weber
3.50 avg rating — 30 ratings 
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Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
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Richard Preston
4.42 avg rating — 7,442 ratings 63. 
Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West
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Ethan Rarick
4.10 avg rating — 3,342 ratings 64. 
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877
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Eric Foner
4.21 avg rating — 6,119 ratings 65. 
How Ike Led: The Principles Behind Eisenhower's Biggest Decisions
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Susan Eisenhower
4.32 avg rating — 654 ratings 
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Lincoln’s Lie: A True Civil War Caper Through Fake News, Wall Street, and the White House 3.72 avg rating — 98 ratings
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1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs -- The Election that Changed the Country
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James Chace
3.79 avg rating — 764 ratings 69. 
Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War
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Steve Inskeep
3.88 avg rating — 1,535 ratings 
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America's Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union 4.16 avg rating — 435 ratings
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The Complete Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S Grant
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Ulysses S. Grant
4.13 avg rating — 9,497 ratings 
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The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
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Brenda Wineapple
4.06 avg rating — 1,699 ratings 
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The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #4)
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Robert A. Caro
4.40 avg rating — 19,288 ratings 80. 
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
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Liaquat Ahamed
4.03 avg rating — 16,187 ratings 
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The Presidents: Noted Historians Rank America’s Best--and Worst--Chief Executives
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Brian Lamb
3.98 avg rating — 407 ratings 
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Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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H.W. Brands
4.01 avg rating — 11,080 ratings 
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A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
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Lizabeth Cohen
3.86 avg rating — 937 ratings 87. 
The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War
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Alan Brinkley
3.68 avg rating — 384 ratings 
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Harry S. Truman Versus the Medical Lobby: The Genesis of Medicare
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Monte M. Poen
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 93. 
Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower's Secret Campaign against Joseph McCarthy
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David A. Nichols
3.96 avg rating — 228 ratings 
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Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud that Defined a Decade
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Jeff Shesol
4.10 avg rating — 320 ratings 96. 
Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics 4.21 avg rating — 1,082 ratings
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Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations With Gerald R. Ford 3.79 avg rating — 1,122 ratings
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Richard M. Nixon: The American Presidents Series: The 37th President, 1969-1974 3.92 avg rating — 39 ratings