Presidents


A Promised Land
Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
War
The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy―and Why It Failed
Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden
The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis
Rage
Blowback
The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success
All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
Reagan: His Life and Legend
John Adams
Washington: A Life
Truman
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Grant
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)
Theodore Rex
His Excellency: George Washington
The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America
Truman by David McCulloughHarry Truman's Excellent Adventure by Matthew AlgeoPlain Speaking by Merle MillerGive 'Em Hell, Harry by Samuel GalluMany Are the Crimes by Ellen Schrecker
Harry S Truman
29 books — 13 voters

Becoming by Michelle ObamaNo Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns GoodwinFirst Women by Kate Andersen BrowerUpstairs at the White House by J.B. WestMrs. Kennedy and Me by Clint Hill
Books By Or About First Ladies
129 books — 14 voters
I Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiIs Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy KalingLean In by Sheryl SandbergThe Reason I Jump by Naoki HigashidaDrift by Rachel Maddow
Books Rec'd By The Daily Show
335 books — 272 voters

The Ride by Kostya KennedyFounding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis1776 by David McCulloughAmerican Sphinx by Joseph J. EllisWashington by Ron Chernow
U.S Revolution (nonfiction)
24 books — 10 voters
Washington by Ron ChernowJohn Adams by David McCulloughAlexander Hamilton by Ron ChernowThe Ride by Kostya KennedyFounding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis
US Founding Fathers (nonfiction)
240 books — 31 voters


The crowd waited with bated breath as the first neurologically-enhanced lobster elected President of the United States clambered toward the podium. The lobster hovered over the microphone, clamped its claws and rubbed its antennae. A storm of neurons fired inside its ganglia, and its mandibles burbled out a rousing acceptance speech. The men whooped and hollered at the significance of the moment, while the women, relegated to years of waiting for their turn, clapped tepidly.
Pedro Íñiguez, Mexicans on the Moon: Speculative Poetry from a Possible Future

Molly Ivins
Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention." [Shrub Flubs His Dub, The Nation, June 18, 2001] ...more
Molly Ivins

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