Celebrating 2,750 Days with the Presidents
About 7½ years ago I decided to read as many of the best presidential biographies as I could and to …
About 7½ years ago I decided to read as many of the best presidential biographies as I could and to …
After spending the past four months with Lyndon Johnson it’s fair to say that I found him to be the …
“Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream” is Doris Kearns Goodwin’s life of Lyndon Johnson. Published in 1976 (just three years …
With 35 presidents, 190 biographies and about 94,000 pages completed I am finally on to a president who actually occupied …
I spent the past 24 weeks reading a dozen biographies of John F. Kennedy totaling just under 8,000 pages: six …
Doris Kearns Goodwin’s “The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga” was published in 1987 and remains one of the …
Rightly or wrongly, John F. Kennedy is the president who I’ve long suspected of being most undeservedly well-ranked by presidential …
[Updated] Every student of American history knows that Franklin D. Roosevelt served more terms as President of the United States …
Doris Kearns Goodwin’s “No Ordinary Time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II” was published in …
Not since Abraham Lincoln have I been this excited about the next president on my journey through the best presidential …
William H. Taft is often remembered as the president who may have gotten himself stuck in the White House bathtub. …
If you’ve read one biography of Teddy Roosevelt, you’ve already gotten to know William Howard Taft. If you’ve read several …
After reading 121 biographies of the first 26 presidents, Theodore Roosevelt easily stands out as one of the most fascinating …
Doris Kearns Goodwin’s “The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and the Golden Age of Journalism” was published in …
My journey through the best presidential biographies has now consumed 780 days, the first 25 presidents, 107 biographies and almost …