Upcoming Presidential Biographies
  • My Journey Through the Best Presidential Biographies.  Rather duplicating the good work being done by my friend Stephen Floyd, I am simply linking to his website for up-to-date information about upcoming Presidential biographies.  It also includes recently released Presidential biographies, going back to 2012.
George Washington

John Adams

Thomas Jefferson

James Madison

James Monroe

John Quincy Adams

Andrew Jackson

Martin Van Buren

William Henry Harrison

John Tyler

James K. Polk

Zachary Taylor

Millard Fillmore

Franklin Pierce

James Buchanan

Abraham Lincoln

Andrew Johnson

Ulysses S. Grant

  • Grant, by Ron Chernow (Penguin Press, 2017)

Rutherford B. Hayes

James Garfield

Chester Arthur

Grover Cleveland

Benjamin Harrison

William McKinley

Theodore Roosevelt

William Howard Taft

Woodrow Wilson

Warren Harding

Calvin Coolidge

Herbert Hoover

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Harry S Truman

Dwight D. Eisenhower

John F. Kennedy

Lyndon B. Johnson

Richard M. Nixon

Gerald R. Ford

Jimmy Carter

Ronald Reagan

George H.W. Bush

Bill Clinton

George W. Bush

Barack Obama

Donald J. Trump

Post-Presidencies

Multiple Presidents

The White House

The Presidency

Campaigning

Health and Death

Other Books About the Presidents

 

 

 

 

 

  • Following the Presidents by David Cross (author of book “Chasing History:  One Man’s Road Trip Through The Presidential Libraries”)

 

 

 

 

 

  • Grover Cleveland: Historical reenactment of 1893 presidential inaugural ball of Grover Cleveland. First Lady Frances Cleveland will be played by Miss New Jersey, Jaime Gialloreto, and Cleveland will be played by his grandson, George Cleveland. November 10, 2018 (6:30 pm) at the Women’s Club of Upper Montclair in Montclair NJ. For more details and tickets, visit https://presidentcleveland.org/grover-cleveland-inaugural-ball/
  • Lyndon Johnson: All the Way, Play about LBJ at ZACH Theatre in Austin, Texas from April 8, 2015 to May 10, 2015.  Click here for more details.
  • Warren Harding: 2015 Warren G. Harding Symposium, July 17-18, 2015, at the Harding Home in Marion Ohio.  The theme for this 6th annual symposium will be “The Modern First Ladies: Portraits in Contrast.”  Click here for more details.
  • White House: Seminar: Barely Avoiding Disaster:  Lessons Learned from the White House Reconstruction During Harry Truman’s Presidency.  Speaker:  Mike Purdy.  April 21, 2015, 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm, Seattle, Washington (Bell Harbor International Conference Center).  Sponsored by Puget Sound Chapter of CSI.
  • Lyndon Johnson: The Triumph and Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson.  Discussion with author Joseph A. Califano, Jr. of the new edition of his book.  Moderated by CBS News journalist and anchor Bob Schieffer. March 26, 2015 at 6:00 pm in the LBJ Auditorium at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas.  Click here for more information.
  • Memories of the Presidents:  On the Relativity of Being Remembered as a US President, by Bruno Van de Casteele, December 7, 2014.  An interesting study conducted over time shows that people remember the more recent presidents, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln, but that in between, there are large gaps in the knowledge people have of the presidents and their order.

 

 

 

 

  • Periodicals
  • Archives
  • Miscellaneous
  • American Political Biography, (APB Press issues a monthly catalog of various books as well as offering a number of out-of-print biographies of American politicians)
  • Presidential Memorabilia