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Caro or Johnson?
November 28, 2024 at 10:27 PM
Clinton: First in His Class by David Maraniss

Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House by Peter Baker

Barack Obama: The Story by David Maraniss

Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward
November 28, 2024 at 10:20 PM
An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford by Richard Norton Smith

His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life by Jonathan Alter

President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime by Lou Cannon

Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush by Jon Meacham
November 28, 2024 at 10:20 PM
Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith

An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 by Robert Dallek

AND for JFK:

A Thousand Days by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

The Years of Lyndon Johnson series by Robert A. Caro

Richard Nixon: The Life by John A. Farrell
November 28, 2024 at 10:20 PM
The Shadow of Blooming Grove: Warren G. Harding in His Times by Francis Russell

Calvin Coolidge by Amity Shlaes

Herbert Hoover by William E. Leuchtenburg (The American Presidents Series)

Franklin D. Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom by Conrad Black

Truman by David McCullough
November 28, 2024 at 10:20 PM
Benjamin Harrison by Charles W. Calhoun (The American Presidents Series)

William McKinley by Kevin Phillips

Theodore Roosevelt: Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough

William Howard Taft by Jeffrey Rosen (The American Presidents Series)

Woodrow Wilson by A. Scott Berg
November 28, 2024 at 10:20 PM
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard

Chester Alan Arthur by Zachary Karabell (The American Presidents Series)

Grover Cleveland: A Study in Character by Alyn Brodsky
November 28, 2024 at 10:20 PM
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Andrew Johnson by Annette Gordon-Reed (The American Presidents Series)

Grant by Ron Chernow

Rutherford B. Hayes by Hans L. Trefousse (The American Presidents Series)
November 28, 2024 at 10:20 PM
Zachary Taylor by John S. D. Eisenhower (The American Presidents Series)

Millard Fillmore: Biography of a President by Robert J. Rayback

Franklin Pierce: Young Hickory of the Granite Hills by Roy F. Nichols

James Buchanan by Jean H. Baker (The American Presidents Series)
November 28, 2024 at 10:20 PM
William Henry Harrison by Gail Collins (The American Presidents Series)

John Tyler: The Accidental President by Edward P. Crapol (The American Presidents Series)

Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America by Walter R. Borneman
November 28, 2024 at 10:20 PM
The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness by Harlow Giles Unger

John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, A Private Life by Paul C. Nagel

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham

Martin Van Buren: The Romantic Age of American Politics by John Niven
November 28, 2024 at 10:20 PM