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POLITICAL FAMILIES POLITICAL POWER IS RELATIVE |
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by Jeffrey Archer
In the late 1940s, twin boys are separated at birth, Nat going home with his middle-class parents, and Fletcher to be raised by a wealthy couple. But their lives come together when they both run for governor of Connecticut.
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by William Wells Brown
Originally published in 1853, this is the first novel written by an African American, and published in London while Brown was still legally regarded as property within the borders of the United States. Inspired by the story of Thomas Jefferson's sexual relationship with his slave Sally Hemings. Brown fictionalizes the stories of Jefferson's mistress, daughters, and granddaughters -- all of whom are slaves -- in order to demythologize the dominant U.S. cultural narrative celebrating Jefferson's America as a nation of freedom and equality for all. |
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by Barbara Chase-Riboud
One of the greatest love stories in American history is also one of the most controversial. Thomas Jefferson had a mistress for 38 years whom he loved and lived with until he died -- the beautiful and elusive Sally Hemings. But it was not simply that Jefferson had a mistress that provoked such a scandal in both his time and ours. It was that Sally Hemings was a quadroon slave and that Jefferson fathered a slave family whose descendants are alive today.
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by Jennifer Chiaverini
The Todd sisters - maternal Elizabeth, peacemaker Frances, envious Ann, and much adored Emilie - had always turned to one another in times of joy and heartache. But when Civil War erupted, the conflict shattered their family. Can they come together as sisters to help Mary in her most desperate hour?
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by Stephanie Dray
The fascinating, untold story of Thomas Jefferson's eldest daughter, Martha "Patsy" Jefferson Randolph -- a woman who kept the secrets of our most enigmatic founding father and shaped an American legacy.
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by Barbara Hamilton
When a murder occurs in the home of their friend and fellow patriot, Rebecca Malvern, John Adams is accused of the gruesome crime, which was seemingly perpetrated to obtain a secret Sons of Liberty document. With both her husband's good name and the fate of the Sons of Liberty at stake, Abagail Adams must uncover a conspiracy that could cost them all their freedom -- and their lives |
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by Jack Higgins
Twenty years after his affair with a beautiful Frenchwoman in Vietnam, Jake Cazalet finds out he has a daughter. He must keep it a secret -- but years later, when he is President of the United States, someone discovers the truth.
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by Dorothy Love
A Civil War tale inspired by the half-century relationship between the wife of Robert E. Lee and her slave housekeeper describes the common ground that established their bond and their respective experiences as a war refugee in an increasingly strong Confederacy and a black woman dreaming of freedom.
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by Eric Lustbader
The top ATF agent in DC, Jack McClure receives a call from his old friend Edward Carson. Carson is just weeks from taking the reins as President of the United States when his daughter, Alli, is kidnapped. Jack is the the one man Carson can trust to go to any lengths to find his daughter and bring her home safely.
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by Kerri Maher
London, 1938. The effervescent "It girl" of London society since her father was named the ambassador, Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy moves in rarefied circles. Eager to escape the watchful eye of her strict mother, Kick is ready to strike out on her own.
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by Katharine McGee
In an alternate America, princesses Beatrice and Samantha Washington and the two girls wooing their brother, Prince Jefferson, become embroiled in high drama in the most glorious court in the world.
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by Casey McQuiston
After an international incident affects U.S. and British relations, the president's son Alex and Prince Henry must pretend to be best friends, but as they spend time together, the two begin a secret romance that could derail a presidential campaign.
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by Stephen O'Connor
The facts of the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and the enslaved Sally Hemings are admittedly not well-known save that there was a relationship that lasted almost 40 years and that produced children. The thorniest question -- is a consensual relationship possible in a milieu of slavery? -- is the one most obliquely addressed, and then, as the academics say, problematically.
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by Michael Palmer
A doctor informs the President and First Lady that to make a diagnosis on their son Cam, they need to find other people with the same symptoms to conduct additional testing, but when two young people Dr. Lee has found, each with exceptional gifts, are murdered, Cam's condition suddenly takes on a terrifyingly new dimension.
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by Jo Piazza
A Silicon Valley executive running for the Pennsylvania senate returns to the blue collar town where she and her husband grew up. Gender becomes, predictably, the true crux of the campaign. A collapse sparks pregnancy rumors, Charlotte's shoe choice becomes a major headline, and an offensive, sexist comment from a rival is accidentally spoken into a microphone.
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by Steven Rowley
A young gay writer named James Smale is sent by his agent to Doubleday to take a meeting about his book, with no advance warning that the editor who wants to acquire his manuscript is the former first lady. |
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by George Saunders
On February 22, 1862, two days after his death, Willie Lincoln was laid to rest in a marble crypt in a Georgetown cemetery.. Shattered by grief, Abraham Lincoln arrives at the cemetery under cover of darkness and visits the crypt, alone, to spend time with his son's body. Willie finds himself in a strange purgatory -- the bardo -- where ghosts quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance.
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by Bridget Siegel
Tapped to work for a Georgia governor's presidential campaign, fundraiser Olivia Green, believing she has landed her dream job beside a candidate of unimpeachable values, unexpectedly falls for the governor and is forced to keep their subsequent affair a secret at all costs.
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by Stephanie Thornton
Alice may be the president's daughter, but she's nobody's darling. As bold as her signature color Alice Blue, the gum-chewing, cigarette-smoking, poker-playing First Daughter discovers that the only way for a woman to stand out in Washington is to make waves--oceans of them.
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by Margaret TrumanIn a town where the weapon of choice is usually a well-aimed rumor, the strangling of Secretary of State Lansard Blaine in the Lincoln Bedroom is a gruesome first. White House counsel Ron Fairbanks is ordered to investigate. In death as in life, Blaine is a power to be reckoned with. For Fairbanks, who loves the President's daughter, one point is soon clear: only a few highly placed insiders had access to the Lincoln Bedroom that fateful evening. And one of them was the President. |
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