Reading List:
George Washington
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
Mr. President by Harlow Giles Unger - Completed 4/8/14
His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph Ellis - Completed 4/28/12
Becoming George Washington by Stephen Yoch (Fiction) - Completed 12/15/15
George Washington's Secret Six by Brian Kilmeade
The Ascent of George Washington by John Ferling
George Washington: The Wonder of the Age by John Rhodehamel
Washington's Farewell by John Avlon
Washington's Spies by Alexander Rose
Washington's Circle by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler
In the Name of the Father by Francois Furstenburg
Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
Martha Washington
Martha Washington: An American Life by Patricia Brady
Washington's Lady by Nancy Moser (Fiction) - Completed 10/22/13
John Adams
John Adams by David McCullough
First Family by Joseph Ellis - Completed 10/17/11
Descent from Glory: Four Generations of the John Adams Family by Paul C. Nagel
Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams by Joseph Ellis
John Adams: A Life by John Ferling
Abigail Adams
Dearest Friend by Lynne Withey
The Adams Women: Abigail and Louisa Adams, their Sisters and Daughters by Paul C. Nagel
Dear Abigail by Diane Jacobs
Abigail Adams by Woody Holton
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson by R. B. Bernstein
American Sphinx by Joseph Ellis
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
Jefferson's War by Joseph Wheelan - Completed 7/24/12
Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates by Brian Kilmeade
Thomas Jefferson: President and Philosopher by Jon Meacham
Martha Jefferson (died before Presidency)
My Thomas by Roberta Grimes (Fiction)
The Women Jefferson Loved by Virginia Scharff
Dear Companion: The Inner Life of Martha Jefferson by Kelly Joyce Neff (Fiction)
James Madison
James Madison by Richard Bookhiser
Election that Saved the Nation by Chris DeRose - Completed 12/17/13
Mr. & Mrs. Madison's War by Hugh Howard
Dolley Madison
A Perfect Union by Catherine Allgor - Completed 9/28/11
Strength and Honor: The Life of Dolley Madison by Richard N. Cote
James Monroe (no NF on Elizabeth Monroe)
Founding Rivals: Madison vs. Monroe, the Bill or Rights and the Election that Saved the Nation by Chris DeRose - Completed 12/17/13
The Last Founding Father by Harlow Unger
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, A Private Life by Paul Nagel - Completed 1/27/12
Mr. Adams's Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams's Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in Congress by Joseph Wheelan
The Lost Founding Father by William J. Cooper Jr.
John Quincy Adams by James Traub
Louisa Catherine Adams
Mrs. Adams in Winter by Michael O'Brien
Cannibals of the Heart by Jack Shepherd
Louisa Catherine by Margery Heffron
Andrew Jackson
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans by Brian Kilmeade
Jacksonland by Steve Inskeep
Andrew Jackson by H.W. Brands
Rachel Jackson
A Being So Gentle: The Frontier Love Story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson by Patricia Brady
Martin Van Buren (no NF on Hannah Van Buren)
Martin Van Buren by Ted Widmer
The Forgotten Presidents: Their Untold Constitutional Legacy by Michael J. Gerhardt - Completed 11/18/14
William Henry Harrison (no NF on Anna Harrison)
Mr. Jefferson's Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy by Robert Owens
Goodbye, Old Tippecanoe: William Henry Harrison and his One Month Presidency by Keith Norris
The Forgotten Presidents: Their Untold Constitutional Legacy by Michael J. Gerhardt - Completed 11/18/14
John Tyler (No NF on Julia Tyler - however there is HF)
John Tyler, the Accidental President by Edward Crapol
The Forgotten Presidents: Their Untold Constitutional Legacy by Michael J. Gerhardt - Completed 11/18/14
James K. Polk
Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America by Walter Borneman - Completed 8/16/13
A Country of Vast Designs by Robert Merry
Sarah Polk
Sarah Childress Polk by John R. Bumgarner - Completed 11/25/11
Zachary Taylor (No NF for Margaret Taylor)
Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest by K. Jack Bauer
The Forgotten Presidents: Their Untold Constitutional Legacy by Michael J. Gerhardt - Completed 11/18/14
Millard Fillmore (No NF for Abigail Fillmore)
The Remarkable Millard Fillmore by George Pendle
The Forgotten Presidents: Their Untold Constitutional Legacy by Michael J. Gerhardt - Completed 11/18/14
Franklin Pierce (No NF for Jane Pierce)
Franklin Pierce: New Hampshire's Favorite Son by Peter Walner
The Forgotten Presidents: Their Untold Constitutional Legacy by Michael J. Gerhardt - Completed 11/18/14
James Buchanan (Never married - niece, Harriet Lane, was his "First Lady"
James Buchanan by Jean Baker
Harriet Lane
Harriet Lane, America's First Lady by Milton Stern
Abraham Lincoln
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever by Bill O'Riley - Completed 10/27/11
The Lincoln Conspiracy by Timothy O'Brien (Fiction) - Completed 10/29/12
A. Lincoln: A Biography by Ronald C. White Jr.
Lincoln by David Herbert Donald - Completed 12/26/12
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Lincoln by Gore Vidal
Lincoln's Body Guard by T.J. Turner (Fiction)
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Mary Todd Lincoln
The Lincoln Conspiracy by Timothy O'Brien (Fiction) - Completed 10/29/12
The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage by Daniel Mark Epstein
The Emancipator's Wife by Barbara Hambly (Fiction)
An Unlikely Friendship by Ann Rinaldi (Fiction)
Mary: Mrs. A. Lincoln by Janis Cooke Newman (Fiction)
Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini (Fiction)
Mrs. Lincoln's Rival by Jennifer Chiaverini (Fiction)
Andrew Johnson (No NF for Eliza Johnson)
The Avenger Takes His Place by Howard Means
Ulysses S. Grant
Grant by Jean Edward Smith
Grant's Final Victory: Ulysses S Grant's Heroic Last Year by Charles Bracelen Flood
Grant by Ron Chernow
The Man Who Saved the Union by H.W. Brands
Julia Grant
Civil War Wives: The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis & Julia Dent Grant by Carol Berkin
Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule (Fiction) by Jennifer Chiaverini
Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford B Hayes: Warrior and President by Ari Hoogenboom
Lucy Hayes
First Lady: The Life of Lucy Webb Hayes by Emily Apt Greer
James A Garfield
Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard - Completed 2/3/12
Lucretia Garfield
Crete and James by John Shaw
Chester A. Arthur (No NF for Ellen Arthur)
Gentleman Boss by Thomas C. Reeves
The Forgotten Presidents: Their Untold Constitutional Legacy by Michael J. Gerhardt - Completed 11/18/14
Grover Cleveland
An Honest President by H. P. Jeffers
The Forgotten Presidents: Their Untold Constitutional Legacy by Michael J. Gerhardt - Completed 11/18/14
A Secret Life by Charles Lachman
Frances Cleveland
Frank: The Life of Frances Folsom Cleveland by Annette Dunlap
Benjamin Harrison (No NF for Caroline Harrison)
Benjamin Harrison: Hoosier President by Harry Seivers
The Forgotten Presidents: Their Untold Constitutional Legacy by Michael J. Gerhardt - Completed 11/18/14
William McKinley (No NF for Ida McKinley)
The President and the Assassin by Scott Miller
The Triumph of William McKinley by Karl Rove
Theodore Roosevelt
The River of Doubt by Candice Millard
Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
The Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt by Theodore Roosevelt
The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin - Completed 1/23/14
Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough
Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
Edith Roosevelt
Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Portrait of A First Lady by Sylvia Morris
William H. Taft
William Howard Taft: Confident Peacemaker by David Burton
The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin - Completed 1/23/14
The Forgotten Presidents: Their Untold Constitutional Legacy by Michael J. Gerhardt - Completed 11/18/14
Helen Taft
Nellie Taft: The Unconventional First Lady of the Ragtime Era by Carl Anthony
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson by John Milton Cooper Jr.
Wilson by A. Scott Berg - Completed 12/6/13
Ellen Axson Wilson and Edith Bolling Galt Wilson (1st & 2nd Wife of Wilson)
Ellen and Edith: Woodrow Wilson's First Ladies by Kristie Miller
Warren G. Harding
Warren G. Harding by John Dean
Florence Harding
Florence Harding: The First Lady, The Jazz Age, and the Death of America's Most Scandalous President by Carl Anthony
First Lady Florence Harding: Behind the Tragedy and Controversy by Katherine Sibley
Calvin Coolidge
Coolidge: An American Enigma by Robert Sobel
The Forgotten Presidents: Their Untold Constitutional Legacy by Michael J. Gerhardt - Completed 11/18/14
Grace Coolidge
Grace Cooldige: The People's Lady in Silent Cal's White House by Robert Ferrell
Herbert Hoover
The Life of Herbert Hoover: Imperfect Visionary by Kendrick Clements
Lou Hoover
Lou Henry Hoover: Activist First Lady by Nancy Young
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
FDR by Jean Smith
Traitor to His Class by H. W. Brands
Franklin and Winston by Jon Meacham
1944 by Jay Winik
The Defining Moment by Jonathan Alter
Franklin and Lucy by Joseph E. Persico
Eleanor Roosevelt
No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman
Loving Eleanor (Fiction) by Susan Wittig Albert
Harry Truman (No NF on Elizabeth Truman)
Truman by David McCullough
Harry S. Truman by Robert H. Ferrell
Harry S. Truman by Robert Dallek
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Going Home to Glory by David Eisenhower
Ike: An American Hero by Michael Korda
Ike & Kay (Fiction) by James MacManus
Mamie Eisenhower
Mrs. Ike: Portrait of a Marriage by Susen Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
An Unfinished Life by Robert Dallek
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
Killing Kennedy by Bill O'Reilly - Completed 11/20/12
Jacqueline Kennedy
Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with JFK by Caroline Kennedy
America's Queen by Sarah Bradford
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B Johnson: Portrait of a President by Robert Dallek
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Lady Bird Johnson
Lady Bird: A Biography of Mrs. Johnson by Jan Russell
Lady Bird and Lyndon by Betty Boyd Caroli
Richard Nixon
Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full by Conrad Black
Being Nixon by Evan Thomas
Pat Nixon
Pat Nixon: The Untold Story by Julie Nixon Eisenhower
Gerald Ford (No NF on Elizabeth Ford)
Write it When I'm Gone by Thomas DeFrank
Jimmy Carter
White House Diary by Jimmy Carter
Prophet from Plains: Jimmy Carter and His Legacy by Jimmy Carter
The Forgotten Presidents: Their Untold Constitutional Legacy by Michael J. Gerhardt - Completed 11/18/14
Rosalynn Carter
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter: The Georgia Years:, 1924-1974 by E. Stanley Godbold Jr
Rosalynn Carter: Equal Partner in the White House by Scott Kaufmann
Ronald Reagan
An American Life by Ronald Reagan
Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan by Del Quentin Wibler
Killing Reagan by Bill O’Reilly
Nancy Reagan
My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan by Nancy Reagan
Nancy: A Portrait of my Years with Nancy Reagan by Michael Deaver
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