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.
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 Indispensable 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 The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
4. James Madison, 1809-17
5. James Monroe, 1817-25
6. John Quincy Adams, 1825-29
7. Andrew Jackson, 1829-37 American Lion by John Meacham
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 (for children); 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; Abraham Lincoln by Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire (for children); Abraham Lincoln: A Man of Faith and Courage by Joe Wheeler
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 read about in Leadership by Doris Kearns Goodwin
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 Obama, 2009-2016 The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
45. Not sure I want to read about him 2017-2021
46. Joe Biden 2021-2025 Promise Me, Dad by Joe Biden