American President Reading List

George Washington (1789-1797)
  - His Excellency
  - Hamilton
   {Washington chief of staff during the Revolutionary War, first Treasury Secretary}
John Adams (1797-1801)
  - John Adams
  - Hamilton
   {Inspector General of the Army during the Quasi-War with the French}
Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809)
  -Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
   {Five years Minister to France, Federalist [monarchists] versus Republicans}
  -Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and...
   {28 months and 8,000 miles, Lewis' journals not published until 1904}
James Madison (1809-1817)
  -The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict
   {Impressment, The Chesapeake Affair, Council of Orders, The Battle of New Orleans}
James Monroe (1817-1825)
  -The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness
   {Secretary of State-War of 1812, Minister to France-Louisiana Purchase, Missouri Compromise, Monroe Doctrine}
John Quincy Adams (1825-1829)
Andrew Jackson (1829-1837)
  - American Lion - Andrew Jackson in the White House
Martin Van Buren (1837-1841)
William Henry Harrison (1841)
  -William Henry Harrison
   {Governor of the Indiana Territory, Tippecanoe and Tyler too, 32 days in office}
John Tyler (1841-1845)
  -President without a Party: The Life of John Tyler
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James K. Polk (1845-1849)
  -Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America
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Zachary Taylor (1849-1850)
Millard Fillmore (1850-1853)
  -Millard Fillmore: Biography Of A President
   {Lawyer, Whig Party, Congressman, 1850 Compromise, Fugitive Slave Act, American Party, First Citzen of Buffalo}
Franklin Pierce (1853-1857)
James Buchanan (1857-1861)
  -The Worst President--The Story of James Buchanan
   {Pennsylvania Lawyer, Democrat, Congressman, Minister to Russia; Senator, Secretary of State; Minister to UK,     Dred Scott, Kansas Constitution, Fort Sumter, lifelong bachelor}
  -The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
   {Seven states seceded from the Union between Abraham Lincoln's election and his inauguration}
Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865)
  - Team of Rivals
  - Manhunt:The Twelve Day Search for Lincoln's Killer
  -The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
   {Seward initially thought that he was going to be the driving behind the Lincoln adminstration; Lincoln took some
    time to get his arms around everything.}
Andrew Johnson (1865-1869)
  -The Impeachers
   {Apprenticed Tailor; Tennessee Democrat Politician; Rose to US Senator; Tenure of Office Act; first Impeachment}
Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877)
  - Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
  -Grant
   {Mexican-American War, Stationed in Humbolt, 2 year 4 month world tour, Ferdinand Ward ponzi scheme}
Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881)
James A. Garfield (1881)
  -Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
   {Alexander Graham Bell, Antiseptic Surgery}
Chester Arthur (1881-1885)
  - Chester Allan Arthur
   {patronage, bossism, Roscoe Conkling, Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act}
  - Madison Square Park Statue
Grover Cleveland (1885-1889)
Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893)
  - Benjamin Harrison
  {McKinley Tariff Act, Sherman Antitrust Act, Sherman Sliver Purchase Act, wife died just before he lost reelection}
Grover Cleveland (1893-1897)
  - The President is a Sick Man
  {cancer, the gold standard, free silver, the Pullman strike}
William McKinley (1897-1901)
  - The President and the Assassin
Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)
  -Hot Time in the Old Town: The Great Heat Wave of 1896 and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt
   {Roosevelt as NYC police commissioner, Williams Jennings Bryant Madison Square Garden Speech}
  -The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
   {the role of journalists in supporting Roosevelt's reform agenda}
  - The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
  - Theodore Rex
  - Colonel Roosevelt
  - The River of Doubt
William Howard Taft (1909-1913)
  -The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
   {Governor-General of the Philippines, Secretary of the War, President and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court}
Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921)
  -Wilson
   {President of Princeton, Governor of New Jersey at 54, League of Nations, Stroke while in Office}
  - National Portrait Galley
  - Pilgrimage of the Heart
  - Cavendish House, Carlisle
Warren G. Harding (1921-1923)
  - Warren G. Harding: The American Presidents Series: The 29th President, 1921-1923
   {newspaper publisher; Ohio politics; US Senate; Teapot, Justice and Veteran scandals; mistresses}
Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929)
  - Coolidge: An American Enigma
   {Attorney; Mass. house; state senator; Lieutenant Governor; Governor; Police Strike; Vice President; reduce taxes}
  - National Portrait Galley
Herbert Hoover (1929-1933)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945)
  -FDR's Funeral Train: A Betrayed Widow, a Soviet Spy, and a Presidency in the Balance
   {Warm Springs, Georgia, Hyde Park Burial, Truman's address to Congress}
  -No Ordinary Time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
   {Landlease; United Nations; Yalta; Eleanor: Hickok, Lash; Franklin: Mercer, LeHand, Suckley, Delano, Martha}
Harry S Truman (1945-1953)
  - Truman
  -The Hidden White House: Harry Truman and the Reconstruction of America’s Most Famous Residence
   {Gutted the White House and rebuilt with concrete and steel, Cold War, Assassination Attempt, Key West}
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961)
  - Eisenhower: Soldier and President
   {WWII Supreme Allied Commander, Korean War, Brown versus the Board of Education, Sputnik, U2s and Castro}
John F. Kennedy (1961-1963)
  - Sins of the Father
  - An Unfinished Life
Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969)
  - The Path to Power
   {School teacher and debate coach, congressional secretary, congressman, relationships with FDR and Rayburn}
  - Means of Ascent
   {WWII Bomber Mission, Campaigning by Helicopter, Coke Stevenson and the 1948 Senate Primary, Box 13}
  - Master of the Senate
   {History of the Senate, Richard Russel, Leland Olds and the FPC, Hells Canyon, 1957 Civil Rights Act}
  - The Passage of Power
   {1960 Democratic Convention, Robert Kennedy, JFK Assassination, Harry Byrd, 1964 Tax Cut and Civil Rights Act}
Richard Nixon (1969-1974)
  - Richard Nixon Presidental Library and Museum
Gerald Ford (1974-1977)
Jimmy Carter (1977-1981)
  - The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter
   {Naval Academy, submarines, Camp David Accords, Iran hostage crisis, Three Mile Island nuclear accident,
    Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Soviet grain embargo, 1980 Summer Olympics boycott}
Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)
  - Ronald Reagan Presidental Library and Museum
George H. W. Bush (1989-1993)
  - Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
   {Navy Pilot in WWII, Oil Industry Executive, United Nations Ambassador, Reuplican National Committee Chairman
    Ambassador to China, CIA Director, Fall of the Berlin Wall, The Gulf War, Tiananmen Square Protests}
Bill Clinton (1993-2001)
George W. Bush (2001-2009)
Barack Obama (2009-2017)
Donald Trump (2017-2021)
  - Unbelievable
   {thin-skinned, plays fast and loose with the truth}
  - Fear: Trump in the White House
   {unwilling to listen to everyone's feedback and challenge his own world view.}
  - Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump
   {his casual disregard for the rules and etiquette of golf perfectly mirrors his approach to business, politics,
   and the presidency.}
Joe Biden (2021-2025)
Donald Trump (2025-2029)
  - Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump
   {Charlie Kirk's relationship to JD Vance, the capricious process used to establish the initial tariff levels,
    the descriptions of the meetings held to decide to attack Iran in February of 2026}