Booknotes Books About Presidents

Choose Me: Portraits of a Presidential Race by Arthur Grace – aired 12/10/89
George Bush: An Intimate Portrait by Fitzhugh Green – aired 1/21/90
What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era by Peggy Noonan – aired 2/18/90
Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro – aired 2/29/90
Eisenhower: Turning the World Toward Peace by Harold Stassen – aired 10/14/90
Sleepwalking Through History: America in the Reagan Years by Haynes Johnson – aired 3/3/91
One of Us: Richard Nixon and the American Dream by Tom Wicker – aired 4/7/91
The Riddle of Power: Presidential Leadership from Truman to Bush by Robert Shogun – aired 4/21/91
President Reagan: Role of a Lifetime by Lou Cannon – aired 5/12/91
The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khruschev, 1960-1963 by Michael Beschloss – aired 7/14/91
Counsel to the President: A Memoir by Clark Clifford – aired 7/28/91
Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times 190-1960 by Robert Dallek – aired 9/22/91
Woodrow Wilson: A Biography by August Heckscher – aired 1/12/92
Seize the Moment: America’s Challenge in a One-Superpower World by Richard Nixon – aired 2/23/92
Truman by David McCullough – aired 7/19/92
Clinton: Portrait of Victory by P.F. Bentley – aired 1/17/93
The Mortal Presidency: Illness and Anguish in the White House by Robert Gilbert – aired 1/24/93
Theodore Roosevelt: A Life by Nathan Miller – aired 2/14/93
Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation by Richard Norton Smith – aired 2/21/93
Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume I, 1884-1933 by Blanch Wieson Cook – aired 4/11/93
Turmoil & Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State by George Schultz – aired 6/27/93
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates by Harold Holzer – aired 8/22/93
Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams by Joseph Ellis – aired 9/5/93
President Kennedy: Profile of Power by Richard Reeves – aired 12/12/93
Thomas Jefferson: A Life by Willard Sterne Randall – aired 12/26/93
Time and Chance: Gerald Ford’s Appointment with History by James Cannon – aired 4/17/94
The American Presidency: An Intellectual History by Forrest McDonald – aired 5/15/94
The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America by Mark Neely – aired 6/12/94
The Roosevelts: An American Saga by Peter Collier – aired 8/7/94
Lincoln in American Memory by Merrill Peterson – aired 8/14/94
On the Edge: The Clinton Presidency by Elizabeth Drew – aired 12/11//94
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin – aired 1/1/95
The Bill: How the Adventures of Clinton’s National Service Bill Reveal What is Corrupt, Comic, Cynical and Noble about Washington by Steven Waldman – aired 1/29/95
Always a Reckoning and Other Poems by Jimmy Carter – aired 2/19/95
First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton by David Maraniss – aired 5/7/95
Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior and President by Ari Hoogenboom – aired 7/2/95
Call the Briefing! Reagan and Bush, Sam and Helen: A Decade with Presidents and the Press by Marlin Fitzwater – aired 11/5/95
Lincoln by David Herbert Donald – aired 12/24/95
The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic by Lance Banning – aired 2/11/96
Union of Words: A History of Presidential Eloquence by Wayne Fields – aired 4/14/96
Kennedy and Nixon The Rivalry That Shaped Postwar America by Christopher Matthews – aired 6/9/96
Nixon off the Record: His Candid Commentary on People and Politics by Monica Crowley – aired 9/29/96
The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800 by Conor Cruise O’Brien – aired 11/17/96
Between Hope and History: Meeting America’s Challenges for the 21^st Century by President Bill Clinton – aired 12/15/96
The Strange Deaths of President Harding by Robert Ferrell – aired 1/12/97
Confessions of a White House Ghostwriter: Five Presidents and Other Political Adventures by James Humes – aired 6/22/97
Ulysses S. Grant: Soldier and President by Geoffrey Perret – aired 10/12/97
Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud that Defined a Decade by Jeff Shesol – aired 11/30/97
John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, A Private Life by Paul Nagel – aired 1/4/98
Showtime: The American Political Circus and the Race for the White House by Roger Simon – aired 2/1/98
The Petticoat Affair: Manner, Mutiny, and Sex in Andrew Jackson’s White House by John Marszalek – aired 3/8/98
Honor’s Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln by Douglas Wilson – aired 3/29/98
You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You: Politics in the Clinton Years by Molly Ivins – aired 4/26/98
Coolidge: An American Enigma by Robert Sobel – aired 8/30/98
A World Transformed by George Bush and Brent Scowcroft – aired 10/4/98