Are You Ready for the Roosevelts?

August 23, 2014

(Photo courtesy of the FDR Presidential Library) At my current pace I expect to begin reading the best biographies of Teddy …

The Best Biographies of Abraham Lincoln

June 28, 2014

[Updated] Of the sixteen presidents whose biographies I’ve read so far, none have offered the variety of choices of Abraham …

May 30, 2014

“Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln” is, by almost any measure, the most popular biography of Abraham …

February 28, 2014

My journey through the best presidential biographies has now consumed 60 weeks, 64 biographies, 15 presidents and nearly 28,000 pages …