US Presidents

Here are my reviews on books about Presidents of the United States. This will be an ongoing page, updated monthly, as I review one book per month about one of our presidents. For a list of my personal Presidential rankings, click here.

His Excellency George Washington

by Joseph Ellis

James Madison: A Life Reconsidered

by Lynne Cheney

Martin van Buren and the American Political System

by Donald B. Cole

Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, and Statesman of the Old Southwest

by K. Jack Bauer

President James Buchanan: A Biography

by Philip Shriver Klein

To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876

by Bret Baier

The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur

by Scott S. Greenberger

William McKinley and His America

by H. Wayne Morgan

The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made

by Patricia O’Toole

Herbert Hoover: A Life

by Glen Jeansonne

Eisenhower: Soldier and President: The Renowned One-Volume Life

by Stephen E. Ambrose

Being Nixon: A Man Divided

by Evan Thomas

Reagan: The Life

by H.W. Brands

John Adams

by David McCullough

The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness

by Harlow Giles Unger

Mr. Jefferson’s Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy

by Robert M Owens

Millard Fillmore: Biography of a President

by Robert J. Rayback

With Malice Towards None: A Biography of Abraham Lincoln

by Stephen B. Oates

Rutherford B Hayes: Warrior and President

by Ari Hoogenboom

A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland

by Troy Senik

Theodore Roosevelt

by Henry F. Pringle

The Jazz Age President: Defending Warren G. Harding

by Ryan S. Walters

FDR: A Biography

by Ted Morgan

An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963

by Robert Dallek

An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford

by Richard Norton Smith

Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History

by Fawn M. Brodie

John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit

by James Traub

President Without a Party: The Life of John Tyler

by Christopher J Leahy

James & Dolley Madison

by Bruce Chadwick

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

by Jon Meacham

Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency for America

by Walter R. Borneman

Franklin Pierce: Young Hickory of the Granite Hills

by Roy Nichols

Andrew Johnson: A Biography

by Hans L. Trefousse

Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A Garfield

by Kenneth D. Ackerman

Benjamin Harrison

by Charles W. Calhous

The William Howard Taft Presidency

by Lewis L. Gould

Coolidge

by Amity Shlaes

Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman

by Alonzo L. Hamby

Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President