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John Adams by John Patrick Diggins
President #2, C-SPAN Historians’ ranking #17 May all your wars be Quasi Wars For most of our lives, John Adams was an historical figure whom people recognized, yet thought little of. We figured he must...
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Thomas Jefferson by Joyce Appleby
President #3, C-SPAN Historians ranking #7 Embargo! O grab me! In this biography of the Third President, UCLA professor Joyce Appleby begins the seventh chapter of the book with this sentence:...
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Calvin Coolidge by David Greenberg
President #30, C-SPAN Historians Ranking #26 The chief business of this blog is business Calvin Coolidge assumed the Presidency in 1923 as something of a cipher. But, by the time he left office in...
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Andrew Johnson: A Biography by Hans L. Trefousse
President #17, C-SPAN Historians’ ranking #41 You Cannot Stop Reading This Unless You Have Prior Approval of the U.S. Senate Andrew Johnson’s story could have been one of the most inspiring in American...
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LBJ: A Life by Irwin and Debi Unger
President #36, C-SPAN Historians’ Ranking #11 In Treatment Lyndon Baines Johnson was President for just a little over five years. However, if you try to read some of the biographies that have written...
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Milllard Fillmore by Robert J. Scarry
President #13, C-SPAN historians ranking #37 Yes, I Was President For a job that has only had 43 different men in it, it seems to hard to believe that some people to hold the office could be as obscure...
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Chester Alan Arthur by Zachary Karabell
President #21, C-SPAN Historians ranking #32 Muttonchops to the Rescue! Chester Alan Arthur, perhaps more than any other person to hold the job, never wanted to be President. He seemed stunned that he...
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George H.W. Bush by Timothy Naftali
President #41, C-SPAN Historians Ranking #18 In the name of the father … George Herbert Walker Bush (not that anybody called him that when he was President except when he was sworn in) did not have an...
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Theodore Roosevelt by Louis Auchincloss
President #26, C-SPAN historians’ ranking #4 Bullfeathers!!!! There is no person whose has been President who led a life that seems like it came out of a work of fiction more than Theodore Roosevelt....
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Making of the President, 1964 by Theodore H. White
After winning a Pulitzer Prize with his groundbreaking, dramatic, psychologically intense depiction of the 1960 presidential campaign, Theodore White tried it again in 1964. But, this election lacked...
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