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Best Books on Presidents of the United States
Reading about the President of the United States can bring insight about the roles and responsibilities of these individuals and the way each has helped to shape our democracy.
What presidents have written offers a significant measure of their influence.
If you are the interested reader, a student or a scholar, this resource is the first-step guide to the Best Books on U.S. Presidents.
Do you want to know more about a president’s life and career? Are you interested in learning from sources that provide facts, opinions, or interpretations about certain aspects of a presidency?
This website is based on the book: Presidents of the United States – Their Written Measure: a bibliography published by the Library of Congress in 1996. It is intended for those who want to know how American government and politics work as seen through the eyes of the presidency and the presidents. Scholars at the Library of Congress selected the titles as the best books of all time on the U.S. Presidents from their vast collection.
This bibliography can help you look for autobiographical or biographical material, historical perspectives, details on the life, administration, or other valuable information on every U.S. President.
How to Find the Best Books on U.S. Presidents
Explore a president’s books chronologically or alphabetically.
Each U.S. President has their own bibliographic page that is divided into the following:
Institutional view of the U.S. Presidents
Writings about the President and the Administration
Most books in this section are biographical and emphasize the larger political, cultural, and governmental influences that shape what happened during the tenure of a given president. Other works are diaries and memoirs of those who knew a given president and discuss his personality and those gathered around him.
Works by the President
General, Published Papers are major works and important documents produced by a president before, during, and after holding office.
Selected Writings are spin-offs culled from books, presidential papers, letters, articles, diaries, speeches, texts, and other accounts as written by the president.
Bibliography to the U.S. Presidents Chronologically
1. George Washington 1789 to 1797
3. Thomas Jefferson 1801 to 1809
6. John Quincy Adams 1825 to 1829
7. Andrew Jackson 1829 to 1837
8. Martin Van Buren 1837 to 1841
9. William Henry Harrison 1841
11. James K. Polk 1845 to 1849
12. Zachary Taylor 1849 to 1850
13. Millard Fillmore 1850 to 1853
14. Franklin Pierce 1853 to 1857
15. James Buchanan 1857 to 1861
16. Abraham Lincoln 1861 to 1865
17. Andrew Johnson 1865 to 1869
18. Ulysses S. Grant 1869 to 1877
19. Rutherford B. Hayes 1877 to 1881
21. Chester A. Arthur 1881 to 1885
24. Grover Cleveland 1893 to 1897
25. William McKinley 1897 to 1901
26. Theodore Roosevelt 1901 to 1909
27. William Howard Taft 1909 to 1913
28. Woodrow Wilson 1913 to 1921
29. Warren G. Harding 1921 to 1923
30. Calvin Coolidge 1923 to 1929
31. Herbert C. Hoover 1929 to 1933
32. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933 to 1945
33. Harry S. Truman 1945 to 1953
34. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953 to 1961
35. John F. Kennedy 1961 to 1963
36. Lyndon B. Johnson 1963 to 1969
37. Richard M. Nixon 1969 to 1974
38. Gerald R. Ford 1974 to 1977
40. Ronald Reagan 1981 to 1989
41. George H.W. Bush 1989 to 1993
42. William J. Clinton 1993 to 2001
43. George W. Bush 2001 to 2009
Browse General Books, Published Papers & Selected Writings
From in-depth academic sources, to biographies, to books for the general public interest,
the Best Books On U.S. Presidents contains recommended titles from the Library of Congress collection.