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Biographies
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George Washington 1789-
1797
- Cincinnatus: George Washington and the Enlightenment by Garry Wills 973.41 WIL
- George Washington: A Biography by Douglas S. Freeman 973.41092 WAS (7 volumes)
- Life of George Washington by Washington Irving 973.41 IRV
- Washington, the Indispensable Man, James Thomas Flexner 92 WAS
- Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington by Richard Brookhiser 92 WAS
John Adams 1797-1801
- John Adams by Davis McCullough 92 ADA
- John Adams by Page Smith 92 ADA (2 volumes)
- John Adams: A Life by John Ferling 92 ADA
- The Adams Chronicles: Four Generations of Greatness by Jack Shepherd 920 SHE
Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809
- Jefferson: A Revealing Biography by Page Smith 92 JEF
- In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Noble Cunningham 92 JEF
- Thomas Jefferson: A Life by Willard Randall 92 JEF
- Thomas Jefferson: A Biography in his own words by Thomas Jefferson 92 JEF
- Jefferson and His Time by Dumas Malone 92 JEF (6 Vols.)
James Madison 1809-1817
- James Madison: The Founding Father by Robert Allen Rutland 92 MAD
- The Last of the Fathers: James Madison and the Republican Legacy by Drew McCoy 973.52 MCC
James Monroe 1817-1825
- James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity by Harry Ammon 92 MON
John Quincy Adams 1825-
1829
- The Adams Chronicles: Four Generations of Greatness by Jack Shepherd 920 SHE
- John Quincy Adams: A Personal History of an Independent Men by Maria B. Hecht 92 ADA
- John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life by Paul Nagel 973.55092 ADA
Andrew Jackson 1829-1837
- Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire by Robert Remini
973.56 REM (3 Vols.)
- The Life of Andrew Jackson by Robert Remini 92 JAC
- The Age of Jackson by Arthur Schlesinger 973.56 SCH
Martin Van Buren 1837-1841
- Martin Van Buren by Edwin Hoyt 92 VAN
- Martin Van Buren: The Romantic Age of American Politics by John Niven 973.57 NIV
William Henry Harrison 1841
- The Presidencies of William Henry Harrison & John Tyler by Norma Peterson 973.58 PET
- Old Tippecanoe: William Henry Harrison and His Time by Freeman Cleeves 92 HAR
John Tyler 1841-1845
- And Tyler Too by Donald Chidsey 973.58 CHI
- And Tyler Too: A Biography of John & Julia Gardiner Tyler by Robert Seager 920 TYL
James Polk 1845-1849
- The Presidency of James K. Polk by Paul Bergeron 973.61 BER
- James K. Polk: A Political Biography by Eugene McCormac 92 POL (2 Vols.)
Zachary Taylor 1849-1850
- The Presidencies of Zachary Taylor & Millard Filmore by Elbert Smith 973.6 SMI
- Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest by K. Jack Bauer 92 TAY
Millard Fillmore 1850-1853
- The Presidencies of Zachary Taylor & Millard Filmore by Elbert Smith 973.6 SMI
- Millard Fillmore: Biography of a President by Robert Rayback 92 FIL
Franklin Pierce 1853-1857
- The Presidency of Franklin Pierce by Larry Gara 973.66092 GAR
- Franklin Pierce: Young Hickory of the Granite by Roy Nichols 92 PIE
James Buchanan 1857-1861
- The Presidency of James Buchanan by Elbert Smith 973.68 SMI
- President James Buchanan: A Biography by Philip Klein 92 BUC
Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865
- Abraham Lincoln by Carl Sandburg 92 LIN (6 Vols.)
- The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America by Mark Neely 973.7092 NEG
- Lincoln by David H. Donald 92 LIN
- With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen Oates 92 LIN
Andrew Johnson 1865-1869
- The First President Johnson: The Three Lives of the Seventeenth President of the United States of America by Lately Thomas 92 JOH
- The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson, Seventeenth President of the United States: A History by David Dewitt 973.81 DEW
- Andrew Johnson: A Biography by Hans Trefousse 92 JOH
Ulysses S. Grant 1869-1877
- Grant by Jean Edward Smith 973.82092 GRA
- Grant: A Biography by William McFeely 92 GRA
- Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant 92 GRA
- Ulysses S. Grant by Brooks D. Simpson 92 GRA
- Ulysses S. Grant: Soldier and President by Geoffrey Perret 92 GRA
Rutherford B. Hayes 1877-
1881
- The Presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes by Ari Hoogenboom 973.82 HOO
- Rutherford B. Hayes and His America by Harry Barnard 92 Hay
James A. Garfield 1881
- James A. Garfield: His Life & Times: A Pictorial History by Richard L. McElroy 92 GAR
Chester Alan Arthur 1881-
1885
- Gentleman Boss: The Life of Chester Alan Arthur by Thomas Reeves 92 ART
Grover Cleveland 1885-1889,
1893-1897
- The Presidencies of Grover Cleveland by Richard Welch 973.85 WEL
Benjamin Harrison 1889-1893
- Benjamin Harrison by Harry Sievers 973.86 HAR
- The Presidency of Benjamin Harrison by Homer Socolofsky 973.86 SOC
William McKinley 1897-1901
- In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech 92 MCK
- Mayor McKinley: William McKinley and the Civil War by William Armstrong 92 MCK
Theodore Roosevelt 1901-
1909
- Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris 973.911 ROO
- Theodore Roosevelt: A Life by Nathan Miller 92 ROO
- The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt by Stefan Lorant 923.173 LOR
William Taft 1909-1913
- The Presidency of William Howard Taft by Paolo Coletta 973.912 COL
Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921
- The Story of Woodrow Wilson, Twenty-eighth President of the United States, Pioneer of World Democracy by Ruth Cranston 92 WIL
- The Life of Woodrow Wilson, 1856-1924 by Josephus Daniels 92 WIL
Warren G. Harding 1921-1923
- The Ohio Gang: The World of Warren G. Harding by Charles Mee 973.914 MEE
- The Available Man: The Life Behind the Masks of Warren Gamaliel Harding by Andrew Sinclair 92 HAR
- The Shadow of Blooming Grove: Warren G. Harding in His Times by Francis Russell 92 HAR
Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929
- Coolidge: An AMerican Enigma by Robert Sobel 92 COO
- A Puritan in Babylon: The Story of Calvin Coolidge by William Allen White 92 COO
- The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge by Calvin Coolidge 92 COO
Herbert Hoover 1929-1933
- Herbert Hoover: A Public Life by David Burner 973.58 PET
- The Life of Herbert Hoover by George Nash 973.916 NAS (3 Vols.)
- An Uncommon Man: The Triumph of Herbert Hoover by Richard Smith 973.916 SMI
- The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover by Herbert Hoover 92 HOO
Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933-
1945
- Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Rendezvous With Destiny by Frank Freidel 973.917 FRE
- FDR: A Biography by Ted Morgan 92 ROO
- The Age of Roosevelt by Arthur Schlesinger 973.917 SCH (3 Vols.)
Harry S. Truman 1945-1953
- Harry S. Truman: A Life by Robert Ferrell 973.978 FER
- Truman by David McCullough 92 TRU
- Harry S. Truman by Margaret Truman 92 TRU
- Man of the People by Alonzo Hamby 92 TRU
- Autobiography of Harry S. Truman by Harry S. Truman 92 TRU
Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953-
1961
- Eisenhower by Geoffrey Perret 92 EIS
- Eisenhower: Soldier and President by Stephen Ambrose 973.921 AMB
- Ike: The Life and Times of Dwight D. Eisenhower by Piers Brendon 92 EIS
John F. Kennedy 1961-1963
- JFK, Reckless Youth by Nigel Hamilton 92 KEN
- President Kennedy: Profile of Power by Richard Reeves 973.922 REE
- A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House by Arthur Schlesinger 973.922 SCH
Lyndon B. Johnson 1963-1969
- Big Daddy from the Pedernales: Lyndon B. Johnson by Paul Keith Conkin 92 JOH
- Lyndon Johnson and His Times by Robert Dallek 973.923 DAL
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro 973.923 CAR (3 volumes)
- The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency, 1963-1969 by Lyndon B. Johnson 973.923 JOH
Richard M. Nixon 1969-1974
- The Contender: Richard Nixon, the Congress Years, 1946–1952 by Irwin Gellman 92 NIX
- Nixon by Stephen Ambrose 92 NIX (3 Vols.)
- Nixon: A Life by Jonathan Aitken 92 NIX
- Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician by Robert Morris 92 NIX
- RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon by Richard M. Nixon 92 NIX
Gerald Ford 1974-1977
- Time and Chance: Gerald Ford’s Appointment With History by James Cannon 92 FOR
- A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford by Gerald Ford 973.925 FOR
Jimmy Carter 1977-1981
- Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President by Jimmy Carter 973.926 CAR
- Jimmy Carter: A Comprehensive Biography From Plains to the Presidency by Peter Bourne 92 CAR
- Jimmy Carter: American Moralist by Kenneth Morris 92 CAR
- The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter’s Journey Beyond the White House by Douglas Brinkley 973.926 CAR
Ronald Reagan 1981-1989
- An American Life by Ronald Reagan 92 REA
- President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime by Lou Cannon 973.92 CAN
- Exit with Honor: The Life and Presidency of Ronald Reagan by William Pemberton 92 REA
- Reagan, in His Own Hand by Kiron Skinner, ed. 973.927 REA
- Reagan: The Man and His Presidency by Deborah Strober 973.927 REA
George H. Bush 1989-1993
- Heartbeat: George Bush in His Own Words by Jim McGrath 973.931 BUS
- Flight of the Avenger: George Bush at War by Joe Hyams 92 BUS
- George Bush: The Life of Lone Star Yankee by Herbert Parmet 92 BUS
- All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings by George Bush 973.928 BUS
Bill Clinton 1993-2001
- Clinton Confidential: The Climb to Power: The Unauthorized Biography of Bill and Hillary Clinton by George Carpozi 92 CLI
- Clinton: Young Man in a Hurry by Jim Moore 92 CLI
- First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton by David Maraniss 92 CLI
- My Life by Bill Clinton 973.929 CLI
George W. Bush 2001-
- First Son: George W. Bush and the Bush Dynasty by Bill Minutaglia 92 BUS
- Shrub:The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush by Molly Ivins 92 BUS
- W: Revenge of the Bush Dynasty by Elizabeth Mitchell 92 BUS
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