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From: lynch@nacho.DEC (If it isn't trivial, it isn't important)
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Subject: Presidential biographies
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Date: Wed, 17-Oct-84 14:20:27 EDT
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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.


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