President James Buchanan: A Biography

8 best books like President James Buchanan: A Biography (Philip Shriver Klein): The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams, A. Lincoln, My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, Andrew Johnson: A Biography, James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity, Garfield, Franklin Pierce: New Hampshire's Favorite Son

The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams

Author	Lester J. Cappon
ISBN	0807842303

An intellectual dialogue of the highest plane achieved in America, the correspondence between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson spanned half a century and embraced government, philosophy, religion, quotidiana, and family griefs and joys.

First meeting as delegates to the Continental...

A. Lincoln

Author	Ronald C. White Jr.
ISBN	1400064996

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Everyone wants to define the man who...

My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams

Author	Abigail Adams
ISBN	0674026063

In 1762, John Adams penned a flirtatious note to "Miss Adorable," the 17-year-old Abigail Smith. In 1801, Abigail wrote to wish her husband John a safe journey as he headed home to Quincy after serving as president of the nation he helped create. The letters that span these nearly forty years form the...

The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin

Author	Gordon S. Wood
ISBN	0143035282

From the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republic and winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes comes a landmark work that rescues Benjamin Franklin from a mythology that has blinded generations of Americans to the man he really was and makes sense of aspects of his life and career...

Andrew Johnson: A Biography

Author	Hans L. Trefousse
ISBN	0393317420

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“Andrew Johnson: A Biography” by Hans Trefousse was published in 1989. Trefousse was a historian, author and professor at Brooklyn College for several decades. He was considered a dean of the Reconstruction era and authored nearly a dozen...

James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity

Author	Harry Ammon
ISBN	0813912660

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“James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity” by Harry Ammon was originally published in 1971, making it the oldest of the well-read biographies of our fifth president (though this is not a particularly crowded field). Ammon is formerly...

Garfield

Author	Allan Peskin
ISBN	0873382102

This first full-scale biography of our twentieth president in over fifty years reflects not only a renewal of interest in Garfield the man as the centennial of his inauguration nears, but in the Gilded Age of American politics in which he played so influential a role. Moving from the battlefield to Congress...

Franklin Pierce: New Hampshire's Favorite Son

Author	Peter A. Wallner
ISBN	0975521616

Well-researched if perhaps overly complimentary, this book does a good job of answering one of the questions that most interests me about presidents: why were they elected in the first place?

Pierce is presented as a moderate in this book, who was looking constantly for a way to secure first...