My current history project is an overview of American history as seen through the presidencies. After some flailing around, sampling random biographies of various leaders, I have settled on this particular series. So, I had to restart the project. Yay. (Actually, it's much more interesting than I feared when I first assigned myself this particular homework project.)
This series seems to be reasonably objective and it includes all but the most recent several presidents. As such, it has been the only biography of some of them that I have been able to easily find. (Another reason I settled on reading this series.)
I am reading them in presidential order, not order of publication. I will update this page with links to the blog entries as I get them posted.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr - General Editor
George Washington- James MacGregor Burns and Susan Dunn
John Adams- John Patrick Diggins
Thomas Jefferson- Joyce Appleby
James Madison- Garry Wills
James Monroe- Gary Hart
John Quincy Adams- Robert V. Remini
Andrew Jackson- Sean Wilentz
Martin Van Buren- Ted Widmer
William Henry Harrison- Gail Collins
John Tyler- Gary May
James K. Polk- John Seigenthuler
Zachary Taylor- John S. D. Eisenhower
Millard Fillmore- Paul Finkelman
Franklin Pierce- Michael F. Holt
James Buchanan- Jean H. Baker
Abraham Lincoln- George McGovern
Andrew Johnson- Annette Gordon-Reed
Ulysses S. Grant- Josiah Bunting III
Rutherford B. Hayes- Hans L. Trefousse
James A. Garfield- Ira Rutkow
Chester Alan Arthur- Zachary Karabell
Grover Cleveland- Henry F. Graff
Benjamin Harrison- Charles W. Calhoun
William McKinley- Kevin Phollips
Theodore Roosevelt- Louis Auchincloss
William Howard Taft- Lewis H. Lapham
Woodrow Wilson- H. W. Brands
Warren G. Harding- John W. Dean
Calvin Coolidge- David Greenberg
Herbert Hoover- William E. Leuchtenburg
Franklin Delano Roosevelt- Roy Jenkins
Harry S. Truman- Robert Dallek
Dwight D. Eisenhauer- Tom Wicker
John F. Kennedy- Alan Brinkley
Lyndon B. Johnson- Charles Peters
Richard M. Nixon- Elizabeth Drew
Gerald R. Ford- Douglas Brinkley
Jimmy Carter- Julian E. Zelizer
Ronald Reagan- Jacob Weisberg
George H. W. Bush- Timothy Naftali
Bill Clinton- Michael Tomasky
George W. Bush- James Mann
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