For many Americans, I suspect, the observance of Presidents’ Day means a Monday with no mail and no trip to the bank. But I thought I would put the holiday to use by highlighting the volumes of the AMERICAN PRESIDENTS SERIES that the library is acquiring as they are being published by Times Books. Written by noted authors such as Elizabeth Drew (Richard Nixon), Kevin Phillips (William McKinley), H.W. Brands (Woodrow Wilson), James MacGregor Burns (George Washington), Garry Wills (James Madison), and Tom Wicker (Dwight D. Eisenhower), these books are about 180 pages each. As such, they present a concise, readable account of each president’s life and administration. Since they are not being published in chronological order, the SERIES feature of our web catalog comes in handy when trying to find those purchased by the library so far. This series began in 2003; approximately half of the scheduled volumes have now been published. Many of them have been featured on one of my favorite TV programs, Book-TV, which airs weekends on C-SPAN.
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I've read many presidential biographies, most recently ones about Harry Truman and Abraham Lincoln. I have a Roosevelt one on my reading pile currently. I didn't know about this series. Thanks for sharing.
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