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
2417 The Age of Jackson Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr 1945 American English
2522 The Passage Of Power Robert Caro 2012 American English
2612 Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant U. S. Grant 1885 American English
2959 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
3877 Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 Hunter S. Thompson 1973 American English
4507 Truman David McCullough 1992 American English
4577 No Ordinary Time Doris Kearns Goodwin 1994 American English
5015 The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt Edmund Morris 1979 American English
5329 Grant Ron Chernow 2017 American English
5358 Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin 2005 American English
5573 Lincoln Gore Vidal 1984 American English
6143 Roosevelt James MacGregor Burns 1970 American English
7047 The Making of the President, 1960 Theodore White 1961 American English
8309 Nixonland Rick Perlstein 2008 American English
9175 War Powers Peter Irons 1987 American English
10416 Eleanor and Franklin Joseph P. Lash 1971 American English
10784 Washington Ron Chernow 2010 American English
11576 Abraham Lincoln Carl Sandburg 1939 American English
11660 Days Of Fire Peter Baker 2013 American English
11660 Tumultuous Years Robert J. Donovan 1983 American English
11660 Fdr Kenneth S. Davis 1972 American English
11939 American Lion Jon Matteson 2008 American English
11939 Theodore Roosevelt Henry F. Pringle 1931 American English
11939 Grover Cleveland Allan Nevins 1932 American English
11939 Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters Ray Stannard Baker 1927 American English
11939 Roosevelt and Hopkins Robert E. Sherwood 1948 American English
11939 John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy Samuel Flagg Bemis 1949 American English
11939 The Taft Story William S. White 1954 American English
11939 George Washington Douglas Southall Freeman 1948 American English
11939 Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet Arthur Walworth 1958 American English
11939 A Thousand Days Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr 1965 American English
11939 Grant William S. McFeely 1981 American English
12289 The Bully Pulpit Doris Kearns Goodwin 2013 American English
12324 Lincoln David Herbert Donald 1995 American English
12324 An Affair Of State Richard A. Posner 1999 American English
14679 A Full Life Jimmy Carter 2015 American English
14679 Being Nixon Evan Thomas 2015 American English
14830 Leadership Doris Kearns Goodwin 2018 American English
15897 The Twilight Of The Presidency George E. Reedy 1971 American English
17119 Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy Robert V. Remini 1984 American English
17119 The Era of Good Feelings George Dangerfield 1952 British English
17119 In the Days of McKinley Margaret Leech 1959 American English
17119 Harry Truman And The War Scare Of 1948 Frank Kofsky 1993 American English
17119 Colonel Roosevelt Edmund Morris 2010 American English
The Man Who Saved The Union H.W. Brands 2012 American English
17119 24 7 Politics Kathryn Cramer Brownell 2023 Unknown English
17119 An Ordinary Man Richard Norton Smith 2023 Unknown English
17119 President Garfield C.W. Goodyear 2023 Unknown English
17119 The World As It Is Ben Rhodes 2018 American English
17119 President Reagan Lou Cannon 1991 American English
17119 The Defining Moment Jonathan Alter 2006 American English
17119 Fdr Jean Edward Smith 2007 American English