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President's Day Biography Reading List
Presidents' lives have always been favorite subjects for biographers. Here is a list of the some of the latest examples at the NYPL branches.
A Being So Gentle: The Frontier Love Story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson
Patricia Brady
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
Madison and Jefferson
Andrew Burstein
Random House, 2010
Washington: A Life
Ron Chernow
Penguin Press, 2010
John F. Kennedy
Robert Dallek
Oxford University Press, 2011
Andrew Johnson
Annette Gordon-Reed
Times Books/Henry Holt, 2011
Young Mr. Obama: Chicago and the Making of a Black President
Ted McClelland
Bloomsbury Press, 2010
Colonel Roosevelt
Edmund Morris
Random House, 2010
Lyndon B. Johnson
Charles Peters
Times Books, 2010
My Father at 100
Ron Reagan
Viking, 2011
George W. Bush: A Biography
Clarke Rountree
Greenwood, 2011
Ronald Reagan
Michael Schaller
Oxford University Press, 2011
A Complicated Man: the Life of Bill Clinton as Told by Those Who Know Him
Michael Takiff
Yale University Press, 2010
Jimmy Carter
Julian Zelizer
Times Books, 2010
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Great list. Thank you!
Submitted by Anonymous on February 16, 2011 at 2:38 PM.
Great list. Thank you!
a president's mistress
Submitted by William Kuhn on February 17, 2011 at 4:09 PM.
Or, try a book commissioned by former first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, during her editorial career:
SALLY HEMINGS (Viking, 1979): this historical novel by Barbara Chase-Riboud broke the true story of how Thomas Jefferson had a mistress who was also his slave.
The full story is in READING JACKIE: HER AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN BOOKS (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2010).
With apologies for shameless self promotion.
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