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What Are Your Favorite Presidential Biographies?
Posted on 12/4/18 at 9:58 am
Posted on 12/4/18 at 9:58 am
I’ve read My Life by Bill Clinton, and am looking for recs on another good read.
I enjoy the bios not based on political affiliation, but for insight into the era and the events that defined the decade, etc.
Decision Points may be too close removed from the events that led to the 2003 Invasion; I have personal thoughts on the lies that led to our involvement into that war and the consequences we are still suffering to this day. I don’t think Bush was in a position to come clean on that when he wrote the book.
What are your favorites?
I enjoy the bios not based on political affiliation, but for insight into the era and the events that defined the decade, etc.
Decision Points may be too close removed from the events that led to the 2003 Invasion; I have personal thoughts on the lies that led to our involvement into that war and the consequences we are still suffering to this day. I don’t think Bush was in a position to come clean on that when he wrote the book.
What are your favorites?
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Posted on 12/4/18 at 10:04 am to Longstreet
Adams and Mornings on Horseback by McCullough and Theodore Rex by Morris
Posted on 12/4/18 at 10:28 am to Longstreet
Jefferson Davis.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 10:29 am to NC_Tigah
No Ordinary Time about FDR by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Posted on 12/4/18 at 10:55 am to Longstreet
John Adams by David McCullough, Lincoln by David Herbert Donald, and Washington by Ron Chernow. I’m about to start on Grant by Chernow
Posted on 12/4/18 at 11:07 am to Longstreet
Art of Power. Jefferson.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 11:32 am to NC_Tigah
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Adams and Mornings on Horseback by McCullough and Theodore Rex by Morris
The Rise Of Theodore Roosevelt & Theodore Rex are two of the best biography's I've ever read. They read like a novel. I haven't read Dutch yet. Edmond Morris is an excellent writer.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 11:35 am to Longstreet
My Last Change To Be A Boy about Theodore Roosevelt.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 11:38 am to Longstreet
What Happened by Hillary Clinton
Posted on 12/4/18 at 11:43 am to Allthatfades
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No Ordinary Time about FDR by Doris Kearns Goodwin
I haven't read too many Presidential biographies, but I have read this one, and enjoyed it immensely.
I've also read and enjoyed Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour by William C. Davis.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 12:24 pm to Longstreet
Mein Kampf
Posted on 12/4/18 at 12:34 pm to Longstreet
Choom Gang to Chain Gang: Saul Alinky’s Bad Advice and My Life in Gitmo
Publishing date TBA
Publishing date TBA
Posted on 12/4/18 at 12:44 pm to Longstreet
Theodore Rex
Washington and 1776
Alexander Hamilton
Truman
American Lion
Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates
I want to finish the Teddy trilogy then I plan on reading Chernow’s grant.
Washington and 1776
Alexander Hamilton
Truman
American Lion
Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates
I want to finish the Teddy trilogy then I plan on reading Chernow’s grant.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 12:47 pm to deltaland
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Mein Kampf
Did you hear about the new printing? They have the original paragraph and then pages of 'This is why Hitler was wrong!'
This system goes throughout the book.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 2:34 pm to Longstreet
Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana.
This post was edited on 12/4/18 at 2:35 pm
Posted on 12/4/18 at 2:38 pm to Longstreet
Sort of a biography of them all.
"From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776 (Oxford History of the United States)"
"From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776 (Oxford History of the United States)"
Posted on 12/4/18 at 4:03 pm to Longstreet
All of the Robert Caro “Life and Times of LBJ” books, Path to Power, Means of Ascent, Master of the Senate, and Passage of Power. He’s spent his entire life on these works and his wife is the one whose done all the research. If you don’t believe that the Dem party is 100% pure evil then you need to read these books!
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