A Presidential Biography Starter Kit!

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Opening Recommendation: American Caesars by Nigel Hamilton!

(also: The Shadow of Blooming Grove, if you're burning to know all about President Harding!)

Then:

1. George Washington: Patriarch by Richard Norton Smith

also: my review of "George Washington: Gentleman Warrior":

http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/book-review-george-washington-gentleman-warrior/

And my review of "Blooding at Great Meadows: Young George Washington and the Battle That Shaped the Man":

http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/weems-redux/

And my review of "Mr. President":

http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/book-review-mr-president/

And my review of Ron Chernow's "Washington":

http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/w/

And ... well, you get the point!

2. John Quincy Adams: The Remarkable Education of John Quincy Adams by Phyllis Lee Levin

My review:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/book-review-the-remarkable-education-of-john-quincy-adams-by-phyllis-lee-levin/2015/01/16/521c2676-8f8e-11e4-ba53-a477d66580ed_story.html?utm_term=.4b41ac3bea99


3. Andrew Jackson: American Lion by Jon Meachum

my review of Daniel Walker Howe's "What Hath God Wrought" - about JQA and Jackson!

http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/february-glory/

4. Abraham Lincoln: A. Lincoln by Donald White, Lincoln by Carl Sandburg, and Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

5. Theodore Roosevelt: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Rex, and Colonel Roosevelt, all by Edmund Morris

6. Woodrow Wilson: Woodrow Wilson by August Heckscher

7. Franklin Roosevelt: A Traitor to His Class by HW Brands, and The War Years by Roger Daniels

8. John F. Kennedy: John F. Kennedy by Michael O'Brien

9. Richard Nixon: A Life in Full by Conrad Black, and Nixon Agonistes by Gary Wills

10. Ronald Reagan: Ronald Reagan by Lou Cannon, and also: Dutch by Edmund Morris