Years ago, I started reading a book about Franklin Roosevelt, since I was relatively ignorant of his presidency. After that, I decided it wouldn’t be a bad idea to read at least one book about each President.
There’s no logic to my book selection. Some are biographies, some are autobiographies. Some cover the entire presidency, some cover specific (and probably the most interesting) aspects. Here’s what I’ve tackled so far, and what I’ve got left to do (which is a lot):
44. Barack Obama
43. George W. Bush – House of Bush, House of Saud : The Secret Relationship Between the World’s Two Most Powerful Dynasties by Craig Unger
42. Bill Clinton – My Life by Bill Clinton
41. George HW Bush
40. Ronald Reagan
39. Jimmy Carter
38. Gerald Ford
37. Richard Nixon – President Nixon: Alone in the White House by Richard Reeves
36. Lyndon Johnson
35. John F. Kennedy – Kennedy’s Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam by Lawrence Freedman
34. Dwight D. Eisenhower
33. Harry Truman
32. Franklin D. Roosevelt – Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion Of Freedom by Conrad Black
31. Herbert Hoover
30. Calvin Coolidge
29. Warren G. Harding
28. Woodrow Wilson – Woodrow Wilson: A Biography by John Milton Cooper
27. William Howard Taft
26. Theodore Roosevelt
25. William McKinley
24. Grover Cleveland
23. Benjamin Harrison
22. Grover Cleveland
21. Chester A. Arthur
20. James A. Garfield
19. Rutherford B. Hayes
18. Ulysses S. Grant
17. Andrew Johnson
16. Abraham Lincoln
15. James Buchanan
14. Franklin Pierce
13. Millard Fillmore
12. Zachary Taylor
11. James Polk
10. John Tyler
9. William Henry Harrison
8. Martin Van Buren
7. Andrew Jackson
6. John Quincy Adams
5. James Monroe
4. James Madison
3. Thomas Jefferson
2. John Adams
1. George Washington
