The Ungentlemanly Art: A History of American Political Cartoons by Stephen Hess & Milton Kaplan.  "Stop them damn pictures, demanded William Marcy Tweed of his henchmen.  I don't care what the papers write about me.  My constituents can't read.  But, damn it, they can see pictures!"  This book follows the history of American political cartoons from 1774, when Benjamin Franklin drew the first, to contemporary work.  This book contains more than 300 great political cartoons from the last 200 years.   

Remembering Kennedy: One Brief Shining Moment by William Manchester.  "This is not a scholarly work.  It is instead a recollection of high summer written in the autumn of life, a tribute to a man I knew and an inquiry into why his memory should be cherished."

Alexander Hamilton: Portrait of a Prodigy by David Loth.  David Loth wrote over 50 books during his life.  He was a journalist for 20 years in the United States, Europe and Australia. Among the many newspapers he worked on were The New York Times and the New York World.