Celebrating 2,750 Days with the Presidents

July 4, 2020

About 7½ years ago I decided to read as many of the best presidential biographies as I could and to …

The Best Biographies of Richard Nixon

June 11, 2018

Five months, twelve biographies, 8,200 pages…and one insufferably inscrutable politician. For all the differences between Nixon and LBJ, I was …

January 28, 2018

Published in 2017, John Farrell’s “Richard Nixon: The Life” is the most recent comprehensive, single-volume biography of Nixon. Farrell is …

January 11, 2018

The last two presidents I covered, JFK and LBJ, were nothing if not fascinating. But the next president I’m reading …