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texaslistmaker's "US Presidential Biographies"

A biography of all 43 of our presidents.

Based on list started by bmehling
1. Washington: The Indispensable Man
by James Thomas Flexner
  
2. John Adams
by David McCullough
  
3. Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation: A Biography (Galaxy Books)
by Merrill D. Peterson
  
4. James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic (Library of American Biography Series) (3rd Edition) (Library of American Biography)
by Jack Rakove
  
5. James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity
by Harry Ammon
  
6. John Quincy Adams (American Profiles (Madison House Paperback))
by Lynn Hudson Parsons
  
7. Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times
by H.W. Brands
  
8. The Age of Jackson (Back Bay Books (Series))
by Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr.
  
9. Martin Van Buren and the Emergence of American Popular Politics (American Profiles (Rowman & Littlefield Paperback))
by Joel H. Silbey
  
10. Presidencies of William Henry Harrison and John Tyler (American Presidency Series)
by Norma Lois Peterson
  
11. John Tyler: Our Tenth President (Our Presidents)
by Steven Ferry
  
12. James K. Polk: 1845 - 1849: The American Presidents Series
by John Seigenthaler
  
13.
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 The life of Major General Zachery Taylor, twelfth president of the United States
by H Montgomery
  
14. Millard Fillmore: Biography of a President
by Robert J. Raybach
  
15.
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 Franklin Pierce: New Hampshire's Favorite Son
by Peter A. Wallner
  
16. President James Buchanan: A Biography
by Philip S. Klein
  
17. Team of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
  
18. Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years & the War Years (Library of the Presidents)
by Carl Sandburg
  
19. Andrew Johnson: A Biography
by Hans L. Trefousse
  
20. Ulysses S. Grant: [The American Presidents Series] (The American Presidents)
by Arthur M. Schlesinger
  
21. Rutherford B. Hayes
by Hans Trefousse
  
22. Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield
by Kenneth D. Ackerman
  
23. Gentleman Boss: The Life of Chester Alan Arthur ([Signature series book])
by Thomas C. Reeves
  
24. Grover Cleveland: A Study in Character
by Alyn Brodsky
  
25. Benjamin Harrison: [The American Presidents Series] (The American Presidents)
by Charles W. Calhoun
  
26. In the Days of McKinley
by Margaret Leech
  
27. Theodore Rex (Modern Library Paperbacks)
by Edmund Morris
  
28. Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Faimly, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt
by David McCullough
  
29. William Howard Taft and the First Motoring Presidency, 1909-1913
by Michael L. Bromley
  
30. Woodrow Wilson: Profiles in Power
by J.A. Thompson
  
31. Woodrow Wilson: World Statesman
by Kendrick A. Clements
  
32. The Harding Era : Warren G. Harding and His Administration (Signature Series)
by Robert K. Murray
  
33.
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 Coolidge and the Historians
by Thomas B. Silver
  
34. The Presidency of Herbert C. Hoover (American Presidency Series)
by Martin L. Fausold
  
35. Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox 1882-1940
by James MacGregor Burns
  
36. Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion Of Freedom
by Conrad Black
  
37. Truman
by David McCullough
  
38. Eisenhower
by Geoffrey Perret
  
39. Jack Kennedy: The Education of a Statesman
by Barbara Leaming
  
40. LBJ: A Life
by Irwin Unger
  
41. The Presidency of Richard Nixon (American Presidency Series)
by Melvin Small
  
42. The Presidency of Gerald R. Ford (American Presidency Series)
by John Robert Greene
  
43. JIMMY CARTER: A Comprehensive Biography from Plains to Post-Presidency
by Peter G. Bourne
  
44. An American Life: The Autobiography
by Ronald Reagan
  
45.
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 George Herbert Walker Bush: A Photographic Profile
by David Valdez
  
46. The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House
by John F. Harris
  
47. George W. Bush (Biography (a & E))
by Heron Marquez
  
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Created by texaslistmaker on Jul 25, 2006.