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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:
- Reading Resources
- The Great Books
- Books of Titans Website