I’ve joined the U.S. Presidents’ Reading Project, in which I’ll read about the presidents. The challenge is one without a time limit, and I’m planning on reading one or two books a year.
Note: The names to the presidents are linked to the U.S. President’s Reading Project blog post about that president. Any links on Rebecca Reads are the book titles. Any title in bold has been read (may or may not have been reviewed). Non-bold titles are books I’d like to read.
1. George Washington (1789-97) Washington: The Indispensible Man by James Thomas Flexner; George Washington and Benedict Arnold : a tale of two patriots by Dave R. Palmer;
2. John Adams, 1797-1801 John Adams by David McCullough
3. Thomas Jefferson, 1801-9
4. James Madison, 1809-17
5. James Monroe, 1817-25
6. John Quincy Adams, 1825-29
7. Andrew Jackson, 1829-37
8. Martin Van Buren, 1837-41
9. William Henry Harrison, 1841
10. John Tyler, 1841-45
11. James Knox Polk, 1845-49
12. Zachary Taylor, 1849-50
13. Millard Fillmore, 1850-53
14. Franklin Pierce, 1853-57
15. James Buchanan, 1857-61
16. Abraham Lincoln, 1861-65 Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman;Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin; Lincoln by David Herbert Donald; Lincoln’s Virtues by William Lee Miner; Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography by Philip B. Kunhardt
17. Andrew Johnson, 1865-69
18. Ulysses Simpson Grant, 1869-77
19. Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 1877-81
20. James Abram Garfield, 1881
21. Chester Alan Arthur, 1881-85
22. Grover Cleveland, 1885-89
23. Benjamin Harrison, 1889-93
24. Grover Cleveland, 1893-97
25. William McKinley, 1897-1901
26. Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-9
27. William Howard Taft, 1909-13
28. Woodrow Wilson, 1913-21
29. Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1921-23
30. Calvin Coolidge, 1923-29
31. Herbert Clark Hoover, 1929-33
32. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933-45
33. Harry S. Truman, 1945-53
34. Dwight David Eisenhower, 1953-61
35. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-63
36. Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-69
37. Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969-74
38. Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr , 1974-77
39. James Earl Carter, 1977-81
40. Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1981-89
41. George Herbert Walker Bush, 1989-1993
42. William Jefferson Clinton, 1993-2001
43. George W. Bush, 2001-2009
44. Barack Hussein Obama, 2009-
