The Greatest Books of All Time on Presidency

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
1022 Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders 2017 American English
2419 The Age of Jackson Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr 1945 American English
2524 The Passage Of Power Robert Caro 2012 American English
2614 Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant U. S. Grant 1885 American English
2960 Jefferson and His Time Dumas Malone 1948 American English
3112 The Life of Andrew Jackson Marquis James 1937 American English
3193 The Best And The Brightest David Halberstam 1972 American English
3876 Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 Hunter S. Thompson 1973 American English
4508 Truman David McCullough 1992 American English
4578 No Ordinary Time Doris Kearns Goodwin 1994 American English
5018 The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt Edmund Morris 1979 American English
5330 Grant Ron Chernow 2017 American English
5359 Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin 2005 American English
5575 Lincoln Gore Vidal 1984 American English
6146 Roosevelt James MacGregor Burns 1970 American English
7047 The Making of the President, 1960 Theodore White 1961 American English
8311 Nixonland Rick Perlstein 2008 American English
9179 War Powers Peter Irons 1987 American English
10421 Eleanor and Franklin Joseph P. Lash 1971 American English
10789 Washington Ron Chernow 2010 American English
11579 Abraham Lincoln Carl Sandburg 1939 American English
11663 Days Of Fire Peter Baker 2013 American English
11663 Tumultuous Years Robert J. Donovan 1983 American English
11663 Fdr Kenneth S. Davis 1972 American English
11941 American Lion Jon Matteson 2008 American English
11941 Theodore Roosevelt Henry F. Pringle 1931 American English
11941 Grover Cleveland Allan Nevins 1932 American English
11941 Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters Ray Stannard Baker 1927 American English
11941 Roosevelt and Hopkins Robert E. Sherwood 1948 American English
11941 John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy Samuel Flagg Bemis 1949 American English
11941 The Taft Story William S. White 1954 American English
11941 George Washington Douglas Southall Freeman 1948 American English
11941 Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet Arthur Walworth 1958 American English
11941 A Thousand Days Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr 1965 American English
11941 Grant William S. McFeely 1981 American English
12290 The Bully Pulpit Doris Kearns Goodwin 2013 American English
12326 Lincoln David Herbert Donald 1995 American English
12326 An Affair Of State Richard A. Posner 1999 American English
14680 A Full Life Jimmy Carter 2015 American English
14680 Being Nixon Evan Thomas 2015 American English
14833 Leadership Doris Kearns Goodwin 2018 American English
15916 The Twilight Of The Presidency George E. Reedy 1971 American English
17164 Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy Robert V. Remini 1984 American English
17164 The Era of Good Feelings George Dangerfield 1952 British English
17164 In the Days of McKinley Margaret Leech 1959 American English
17164 Harry Truman And The War Scare Of 1948 Frank Kofsky 1993 American English
17164 Colonel Roosevelt Edmund Morris 2010 American English
17164 The Man Who Saved The Union H.W. Brands 2012 American English
17164 24 7 Politics Kathryn Cramer Brownell 2023 Unknown English
17164 An Ordinary Man Richard Norton Smith 2023 Unknown English
17164 President Garfield C.W. Goodyear 2023 Unknown English
17164 The World As It Is Ben Rhodes 2018 American English
17164 President Reagan Lou Cannon 1991 American English
17164 The Defining Moment Jonathan Alter 2006 American English
17164 Fdr Jean Edward Smith 2007 American English