You never fail to make me consider adding a book to my shelf Steve. Good job. i'll be looking into some of these!

I have only been watching your channel for little over a year but was inspired to look back at some of your video's in search of Presidential Biographies after watching your recent 100 Biography recommendations. You are one fascinating person to be able to provide such a wonderful overview of these books one right after another. I figured you would have done a few Presidential rec video's for my viewing pleasure. Thanks!

Steve, I know you posted this several years ago, but it is very timely for me. I've wanted to begin a deep dive on US Presidents. This will be a great start for me. I enjoy your videos, your reviews and commentary. Keep it up my friend.

Thank you for this video. I was thinking of reading a few books of this nature for nonfiction November. I didn't know where to start but you have kindly pointed me in the right direction.

Another starter kit so soon! How wonderful! The only U.S. presidential biography I have read is Robert Dallek's only volume version of his Lyndon B. Johnson biography. And also Stephen R. Graubard's The Presidents, if that counts. But there are so many I want to read!

Very Good! I'm really enjoying these Starter Kit videos. Can't wait for more of them.

This caught my attention right away! I have been an enthusiast for U.S. Presidential history since I was seven and have read multiple books, though I seemed to dip in and out of them instead of read them throughout. The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents by William DeGregorio is the book that I really see as the go-to reference for all things presidential, for it concentrates on anything we would want to know or should know about them. DeGregorio passed away quite young, but this book is printed with each new president. While I like how it is updated, DeGregorio did the best job in the execution and making it sound as unbiased and straight to the facts as possible. I have read Destiny of the Republic (about James Garfield) by Candice Millard, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham, The President is a Sick Man (about Grover Cleveland) by Matthew Algeo, and multiple books that talk about all of the presidents. I do want to read more and am planning to do so with Presidents Month in February 2017, which I am hoping to bring other Booktubers together to complete, but I will certainly keep your selections in mind. I got American Visionary about John Quincy Adams when it came out, but it is definitely something I want to get into. I also own a collection of J.Q. Adams' poetry, which really catches my attention when a president writes in that nature. I should have asked a question about the presidents in your Q&A, such as your favorite and least favorite, best and worst, and most overrated and most underrated? I would be curious to know, since you have a lot of opinions that are not necessarily traditional. Thank you for sharing! -Josh

I started reading Carl Sandburgs prairie and war years. It is so good! I keep stopping to read quotes to people around me

"Team of Rivals" is a wonderful book. I picked it up a few years ago, thinking I'd chip away at it over time. Couldn't put it down.

@yoongmeldoy7130

4 жыл бұрын

Who is it by?

@thearchive1132

4 жыл бұрын

@@yoongmeldoy7130 It's by Doris Kearns Goodwin :-)

@yoongmeldoy7130

4 жыл бұрын

@@thearchive1132 Thank you!✨

Truman by David McCullough is absolutely outstanding! The series of books about every president is also a good start for for people not ready to take on full length biographies. Arthur Schlesinger Jr wrote the preface for every volume in the series.

Do you have a suggestion on a good biography or book about Coolidge?

Do you have any recommendations for an overview of the revolutionary war and prerevolutionary war like on Jamestown and Yorktown?

I've read Team of Rivals, Rawhide Down, John Quincy Adams by Harlow Giles Unger, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris, and No Ordinary Time by Doris Kerns Goodwin.

This was wonderful !

I have been hoping that you would do a vid like this. I like learning about Presidential history. Are you doing a part two for this because it sounded like you were. I also wouldn't mind seeing a Kennedy starter Kit either .

I absolutely loved Team of Rivals and have the first 2 volumes of the trilogy on Teddy Roosevelt. Two of my favorite bios are John Adams by David McCullough and Mornings on Horseback about the youth of TR. Couldn't put either down.

@saintdonoghue

7 жыл бұрын

Oooh, "Mornings on Horseback" is REALLY good, I agree!

You alluded to Taft several times, but did not recommend any books about him or say why you find him so fascinating. I think Roosevelt and Taft are very interesting. Nellie Taft's bio by Carl Anthony is a page turner. Do you have a video on Taft and why you are drawn to him?

I have Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History by Fawn M. Brodie and I have Wilson by A. Scott Berg. My goal is to read one book on each president. I have a long way to go. Thanks for this video.

This was a joy to watch! I am surprised you didn't stick Bush Jr in there since I know you have read a lot on him this past :)

@saintdonoghue

7 жыл бұрын

How the dickens did you know that? I have indeed been reading a LOT on W. - pretty much everything, in my nerdy completist way! But it somehow just didn't feel right to include him on this list, for good or bad reasons ...

Why are you an expert on Taft? What interests you about the large, bathtub breaking President?

I started with Worst. President. Ever. Jane's Buchanan by Robert Strauss, and at the moment I'm reading John Quincy Adams an American Visionary by Fred Kaplan.

Meacham's bio of George H Bush is well worth a read

Fantastic video, Steve. Thanks. I do have two questions though somewhat related to things mentioned. 1. Do you like Hunter S Thompson's Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail? I assume you hate it, but I'm curious. lol. 2. What do you think of Edmund Morris's book on Beethoven? I'm interesting in reading that as well as his Roosevelt and Reagan books. Thanks again.

@saintdonoghue

7 жыл бұрын

I do indeed hate "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail," but I thought the Morris Beethoven book was interesting!

@stantonsullivan-readdelillo

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for answering. I must admit I'm a Thompson fan. I've just been reading The Great Shark Hunt. :)

@suemoro

7 жыл бұрын

Will Sullivan MEG?

@stantonsullivan-readdelillo

7 жыл бұрын

Haha. No. It's a book of Thompson's essays.

I purchased several of these books today but don't worry, I didn't pay full price. 😀

surprised you passed to touch on Robert Caro's LBJ works

Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln by John Stauffer.

You forgot aannotations, Steve, and there were so many recommendations ;)

@saintdonoghue

7 жыл бұрын

Sorry! They're added now!

@gemma2275

7 жыл бұрын

That's great!

Im ashamed to say I've never read any Presidential books ( although in my defence I do live in the UK). I have always been fascinated by John F Kennedy and so will begin my presidential reading with a book about him I think.

Already looking forward to reading Trump's biography?

Isn't all history just a story though?

@saintdonoghue

7 жыл бұрын

Nope!

@saintdonoghue

7 жыл бұрын

*sigh* Because real things really happen. And they always have.