Books of Presidents with Gene Hanratty

In this episode, Erik Rostad interviews Gene Hanratty about his 10-year project of reading through a book about each president.

Show Notes

• Guest: Gene Hanratty

• Gene’s Presidential Reading List

  • 1776 by David McCullough (decided to add this book to the library because without the significant events of this year the rest of the list would never have happened!)

  • George Washington – Ron Chernow

  • John Adams – David McCullough (author autograph)

  • Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power – Jon Meacham (author autographed)

  • James Madison – Ralph Ketcham

  • James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness – Harlow Giles Unger

  • John Quincy Adams – Paul C. Nagel (author autograph)

  • Andrew Jackson in the White House: American Lion – Jon Meacham (author autographed)

  • Martin Van Buren – Donald B. Cole

  • Old Tippecanoe – William Henry Harrison and His Time – Freeman Cleaves

  • John Tyler – Gary May

  • James K. Polk – Walter R. Borneman (author autographed)

  • Zachery Taylor – K. Jack Bauer

  • Millard Fillmore: Biography of a President – Robert J. Rayback

  • Franklin Pierce – Michael F. Holt

  • Lincoln: Team of Rivals – Doris Kearns Goodwin

  • The Bully Pulpit – Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and the Golden Age of Journalism – Doris Kearns Goodwin (author personally autographed to me)

  • The Bully Pulpit – Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and the Golden Age of Journalism – Doris Kearns Goodwin (author personally autographed to me)

  • Woodrow Wilson: A Biography – John Milton Cooper, Jr.

  • The Shadow of Blooming Groove: Warren G Harding in His Times – Francis Russell

  • Calvin Coolidge – David Greenberg

  • An Uncommon Man: The Triumph of Herbert Hoover – Richard Norton Smith

  • No Ordinary Time: Franklin Delano Roosevelt – Doris Kearns Goodwin (author autograph to me)

  • Truman – David McCullough (author autograph)

  • Eisenhower – Stephen E. Ambrose

  • A Thousand Days: John Fitzgerald Kennedy – Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (author autograph)

  • Lyndon B. Johnson

    • Lyndon Johnson and The American Dream – Doris Kearns Goodwin (author autograph to me)

    • The Years of Lyndon Johnson (reading in progress) – Robert Caro

  • The Memoirs of Richard Nixon – Richard Nixon (with President Nixon’s autograph)

  • A Time to Heal – Gerald R. Ford (with President Ford’s autograph)

  • Keeping Faith Memoirs of a President – Jimmy Carter (with President Carter’s autograph)

  • Ronald Reagan

    • When Character was King – Peggy Noonan (author autograph)

    • An American Life – Ronald Reagan (with President Reagan’s autograph)

  • Heartbeat – George H. W. Bush (President Bush’s signature)

  • My Life – Bill Clinton (with President Clinton’s autograph)

  • George W. Bush

    • Decision Points – George W. Bush

    • Portraits of Courage – George W. Bush (with President Bush’s autograph)

• Other POTUS Reading Lists:

  • Jeremy Anderberg

• Reading Resources

• The Great Books

• Books of Titans Website

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