Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-nacho!lynch From: lynch@nacho.DEC (If it isn't trivial, it isn't important) Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Presidential biographies Message-ID: <3942@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 17-Oct-84 14:20:27 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3942 Posted: Wed Oct 17 14:20:27 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Oct-84 19:21:44 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 40 I have begun a long-term project of collecting and reading the "definitive" biographies of all the U.S. Presidents. I would like help in pointing me toward books I should consider, particularly for the more obscure presidents. Multi-volume sets are welcome as well. I currently have in my library: George Washington by James Thomas Flexner (4 volumes) Thomas Jefferson by Dumas Malone (first 2 volumes of 6) Andrew Jackson by Robert Remini (3 volumes) Lincoln by Carl Sandburg (I have a one-volume version of "The Prairie Years" and "The War Years") FDR ("The Lion and the Fox" and "The Soldier of Freedom") by James MacGregor Burns (2 volumes) LBJ ("The Path to Power") by Robert Caro (When is the next volume coming out?) I am awaiting delivery of the first volume of a new bio of Eisenhower. I believe it is titled "Soldier, Statesman, President-elect". Volume 2 ("The President") was just published. I forget the author's name. I also have other books which touch upon aspects of presidential lives or focus on the presidency itself, like "A Thousand Days" by Arthur M. Schlesinger (sp?) and "Breach of Faith" by Theodore H. White. But I would like to get complete biographies. The better to understand the whole man. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Bill Lynch USPS: Digital Equipment Corp / ZKO2-1/M11 110 Spit Brook Road / Nashua, NH 03082 Tele: (603) 881-2837 UUCP: {decvax,allegra,ucbvax}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-nacho!lynch ARPA: lynch%nacho.DEC@decwrl.ARPA "Department of Redundancy Department"