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• Bosses, Machines, and Urban Voters (revised edition originally published 1986; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by John M. Allswang (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism (orginally published 1989, revised 2007), by Dennis King (HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• The Iron Hunter (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002), by Chase S. Osborn, contrib. by Robert M. Warner (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)
• American Demagogues: Twentieth Century (Gloucester, MA: P. Smith, 1959), by Reinhard H. Luthin, contrib. by Allan Nevins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lyndon LaRouche: Fascism Restyled for the New Millennium (Seattle: Red Letter Press, c2003), by Helen Gilbert (PDF at redletterpress.org)
• Journey Through My Years (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946), by James M. Cox (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Peerless Leader: William Jennings Bryan (New York: Farrar and Rinehart, c1929), by Paxton Hibben and C. Hartley Grattan, contrib. by Charles A. Beard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Power of Reason: A Kind of Autobiography, by Lyndon H. LaRouche (PDF at wlym.com)
• Six Decades in Texas: or, Memoirs of Francis Richard Lubbock, Governor of Texas in War Time, 1861-63 (Austin, TX: Ben C. Jones and Co., 1900), by Francis Richard Lubbock, ed. by Cadwell Walton Raines
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• Tom Watson, Agrarian Rebel (New York: Macmillan, 1938), by C. Vann Woodward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Samuel Adams (Houghton, Mifflin ;, 1896), by James K. Hosmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of General Lewis Cass: comprising an account of his military services in the North-west during the war with Great Britain, his diplomatic career and civil history. To which is appended, a sketch of the public and private history of Major-General W.O. Butler, of the volunteer services of the United States. (G.B. Zieber, 1848) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and times of Hannibal Hamlin (Printed at the Riverside Press, 1899), by Charles Eugene Hamlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and times of John Kelly, tribune of the people (American News Co., 1885), by J. Fairfax McLaughlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• An address upon the life and public services of Hon. Thomas Hendricks, late vice-president of the United States (s.n., 1890), by David Turpie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Addresses and lectures on public men and public affairs delivered in Washington City, D.C. (Derby, 1856), by C. M. Butler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The beauties of the Hon. Henry Clay : to which is added a biographical and critical essay. (E. Walker, 1843), by Henry Clay (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life, speeches, and public services of John Bell : together with a sketch of the life of Edward Everett, Union candidate for the offices of President and Vice-President of the United States. (Rudd & Carleton, 1860) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Hancock (Henry A. Sumner & Co., 1880), by A. T. Freed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketch of the life of the Hon. Isaac Fletcher : late a representative in Congress from the fifth district in Vermont (Stilman Fletcher, 1843), by Isaac F. Redfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eulogy on the life and public services of the Hon. Henry Clay : delivered at Milton, Florida, on the 16th of August, 1852 (Dade, Thompson & Co., Printers, 1852), by G. Capers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Samuel Adams. (AMS Press, 1972), by James Kendall Hosmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wells' national hand-book : embracing numerous invaluable documents connected with the political history of America. Among which the Declaration of independence, Constitution of the United States ... biographical sketches of the expresidents, with portraits of each, lives and portraits of the nominees for president and vice-president, platforms of the three political parties, Congress of the United States, &c., &c., &c., interspersed with the interesting incidents of each administration (J. G. Wells, 1856), by John G. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Col. John Charles Fremont, and his narrative of explorations and adventures, in Kansas, Nebraska, Oregon and California : the memoir (Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856), by John Charles Frémont and Samuel M. Smucker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Samuel Adams (Houghton, Mifflin ;, 1893), by James Kendall Hosmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketch of the life and public services of Edward D. Baker, United States senator form Oregon, and formerly representative in Congress from Illinois, who died in battle near Leesburg, Va., October 21, A.D. 1861 ([s.n.], 1870), by Joseph Wallace (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of General Lewis Cass comprising an account of his military services in the North-West during the war with Great-Britain, his diplomatic career and civil history : to which is appended a sketch of the public and private history of Major-General W. O. Butler of the volunteer service of the United States. (G.B. Zieber, 1848) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hancock the life and public services of Winfield Scott Hancock (H.A. Sumner, 1880), by A. T. Freed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and public services of Hon. James G. Blaine "the Plumed Knight" containing a full account of his early life ... his brilliant services in Congress and as Speaker of the House, his able and patriotic record in the Senate of the United States; including his nomination for the Presidency, his eminent services as Secretary of State, his sickness and death ... (J.S. Brown, 1893), by Henry Davenport Northrop (page images at HathiTrust)
• The iron hunter (Macmillan, 1919), by Chase S. Osborn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The iron puddler : my life in the rolling mills and what came of it (Grosset & Dunlap, 1922), by James J. Davis and Joseph Gurney Cannon (page images at HathiTrust)
• A sketch of the life and public services of William Adams Richardson (Priv. Print., 1898), by Frank Warren Hackett (page images at HathiTrust)
• James G. Blaine : a study of his life and career from the standpoint of a personal witness of the principal events of his history (E.R. Curtis, 1893), by Theron Clark Crawford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and public services of our great reform president, Grover Cleveland ... (B.F. Johnson, 1888), by Herman Dieck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of the life and character of Patrick Henry (E. Claxton & Co., 1881), by William Wirt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of the life and character of Patrick Henry (Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1873), by William Wirt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leading incidents in the life of Henry Clay : his patriotism, statesmanship, and eloquence : an address (Trow's Print. and Bookbinding Co., 1886), by Erastus Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Hon. Samuel Jones Tilden, governor of the state of New York : with a sketch of the life of Hon. Thomas Andrews Hendricks, governor of the state of Indiana (Boston : Lee & Shepard, 1876., 1876), by William Mason Cornell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pine to Potomac : Life of James G. Blaine: his boyhood, youth, manhood, and public services; with a sketch of the life of Gen. John A. Logan, by E. K. Cressey (Gutenberg ebook)
• The life of John Worth Kern, by Claude G. Bowers (Gutenberg ebook)
• Cox—The Man, by Roger Ward Babson (Gutenberg ebook)

• Taylors legislative souvenir of Connecticut (W. H. Taylor, 1900), by William Harrison Taylor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Frank B. Brandegee : memorial addresses delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in memory of Frank B. Brandegee, late a senator from Connecticut (Government Printing Office, 1925), by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Printing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial of Thomas B. Osborne. ([New Haven] : [publisher not identified], [1869], 1869), by Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Fantastic Life of Walter Murray Gibson, Hawaii's Minister of Everything (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1986), by Jacob Adler and Robert M. Kamins (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii)

• Life and Public Services of Thomas A. Hendricks (Indianapolis: Carlon and Hollenbeck, 1886), by John W. Holcombe and Hubert M. Skinner (HTML and page images at Indiana)

• A black odyssey : John Lewis Waller and the promise of American life, 1878-1900 (Regents Press of Kansas, 1981), by Randall Bennett Woods (page images at HathiTrust)

• Acceptance and unveiling of the statues of Henry Clay and Dr. Ephraim McDowell presented by the State of Kentucky : proceedings in the Congress and in Statuary Hall, United States Capitol. (G.P.O., 1929), by United States. Congress 1929), C. H. Niehaus, United States. Congress 1928-1929). Senate, and Kentucky. Statue Commission (page images at HathiTrust)

• Eliphalet Trask, born January 8, 1806, died December 9, 1890 : Ruby Squier Trask, born August 22, 1811, died November 26, 1890 : married March 3, 1829. (C.W. Bryan, 1891) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Neil Staebler : his career and legacy. (Michigan Historical Collections, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, 1987), by Michigan Historical Collections (page images at HathiTrust)

• Proceedings of the Senate and Assembly of the state of New York on the life, character and public services of Patrick F. Trainor. (J.B. Lyon, 1904), by New York (State). Legislature (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the Senate and Assembly of the state of New York, in relation to the death of Hon. Webster Wagner, Senator from the Eighteenth District. (Weed, Parsons, 1882), by New York (State). Legislature (page images at HathiTrust)
• Serious and otherwise men of New York state. (Albany, N.Y. : John W. Huftle, 1931), by John W. Huftle and John Wanhope (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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