"I am very madly in love with you," wrote Lyndon Johnson to his future wife, Bird Taylor. James Madison sent off this plaintive line to his wife Dolley: "Every thing around and within reminds me that you are absent." In this inspiring collection of correspondence between U.S. presidents and their wives are hundreds of unguarded moments of affection, strain, grief, and triumph, revealing as never before the private thoughts and working partnerships of our most public figures. Culled from the holdings of the Library of Congress and various presidential libraries and private collections, it is...

Thomas Jefferson's letters have been described as "a rich repast to mind and heart." Through more than 200 letters A Circle of Friends: Thomas Jefferson and His Women Correspondents offers a unique and intimate view of Jefferson and some of his most trusted confidantes. A Circle of Friends reveals Jefferson's deep and long lasting conversations with his feminine friends and family members about politics, religion, education and most private matters. While Jefferson is the celebrity in this coterie, it is often the women who steal the show.

George Mason and George Washington: The Power of Principle is a unique book combining narrative and primary documents to reveal the complex intertwined lives of George Mason and George Washington. Neighboring planters in northern Virginia, Mason and Washington could not have been more dissimilar in appearance and personality. Yet they forged a firm friendship and powerful political partnership. Principle, pride, friendship and courage carried them through the firestorms of the American Revolution. When it became clear in the aftermath of the revolutionary war that the United States needed a...