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Can you guys recommend me books on American Presidents?

I recently have been reading about Andrew Jackson and I'm now interested in American presidents more.

>> No.10199123

>>10199110
where are you from, anon?

>> No.10199277

The Life of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States by William Cobbett

Lincoln: The Man by Edgar Lee Masters

Autobiographies of Theodore Roosevelt and Richard Nixon.

There aren't any adequate biographies of Jefferson or Washington that I've come across.

>> No.10199963

>>10199277
>The Life of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States by William Cobbett
1834? Anything more contemporary about him?

>> No.10199985

Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
John Adams by David McCullough
Thomas Jefferson and the Art of Power by Jon Meacham
Madison: A Life Reconsidered by Lynne Cheney
The Last Founding Father (James Monroe) by Harlow Unger

>> No.10199990

>>10199985
McCullough’s book on Harry Truman was good as well.

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10200058

Not a president but probably the most badass founding father. Good book.

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>>10200058
>probably the most badass founding father.
Libtard detected
>>10199110
Honestly I would recommend reading the speeches of the president's you are interested in.

>> No.10200436

>>10199963
American Lion by John Meacham is the best book on Jackson

>> No.10201789

>>10199963
William Cobbett is one of the best writers in the English language. His biography of Jackson should be read for that reason alone.

>> No.10201804

>>10199110
Read Henry Adams on the administrations of both J. Adams and Jefferson. Also, Schlesinger's The Age of Jackson and de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, which was written after a lengthy tour of Jacksonian America.

>> No.10201875

Jefferson's letters, JFK's letters and pre-presidential diaries, Reagan's letters, H.W.'s prepresidential diaries from china

>> No.10201898

The Adams-Jefferson letters should be in curricula.

>> No.10201908

>>10201804
I haven't read it but Henry Adams has written probably the best Victorian style history of the early 19th century United States.

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>>10199110

>> No.10202071

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S32V6v6M8E

also he's doing a presidential library series where he goes through good biographies of each president. he's at jefferson rn I believe

>> No.10202099

How is Carl Sandburg's Lincoln biography?

>> No.10202111

>>10199110
Was old Hickory the rickest rick?

>> No.10202120

>>10202099
Awful, opt for masters