"Selected Nonfiction about U.S. Presidents" lists a sampling of nonfiction titles about U.S. Presidents.
Presidential Fiction Titles
(listed and shelved alphabetically by author)
Split Second, David Baldacci
The X President, Philip E. Baruth
Mr. Lincoln’s Wars: A Novel in Thirteen Stories,
Adam Braver
Into the Night, Suzanne Brockmann
Grant, Max Byrd
The Alienist, Caleb Carr
The Bear and the Dragon, Tom Clancy
Mount Vernon Love Story: A Novel of George and Martha Washington,
Mary Higgins Clark
One Knight Only, Peter David
Lucy, Ellen Feldman
The Rivers of War, Eric Flint
The Legacy, Stephen W. Frey
The Berlin Conspiracy, Tom Gabbay
Valley Forge, David Garland
Carter Beats the Devil, Glen David Gold
The Bishop in the West Wing: a Blackie Ryan Story,
Andrew M. Greeley
The Fourth Perimeter, Tim Green
The Lacey Confession, Richard Greener
The President’s Assassin, Brian Haig
Nightwatch, Richard P. Henrick
The Ambassador’s Son, Homer H. Hickam
The Shot: A Thriller, Philip Kerr
Major Washington, Michael Kilian
The Inside Ring, Michael Lawson
Behold a Pale Horse, Franklin Allen Leib
Elvis and Nixon and Temple of Music, Jonathan Lowy
Citizen Washington, William Martin
The Tears of Autumn, Charles McCarry
The Book of Fate, Brad Meltzer
Night’s Landing, Carla Neggers
1812, Eagle’s Cry, and Treason, David Nevin
Iron Ties, Ann Parker
That Fateful Lightning: A Novel of Ulysses S. Grant,
Richard Parry
Balance of Power and Protect and Defend,
Richard North Patterson
The Threat, David Poyer
Greenfield for President, Arthur Robbins
Assassins Gallery, David L. Robbins
Custer’s Luck, Robert Skimin
Abe, Richard Slotkin
Umbrella Man, Doug J. Swanson
Five Past Midnight, James Stewart Thayer
The Lions of Lucerne, Brad Thor
A God in Ruins, Leon Uris
Lincoln, Gore Vidal
Chain of Command, Caspar W.Weinberger
Capital Crimes, Stuart Woods
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Selected Nonfiction about U.S. Presidents
These titles are listed according to call number.
Titles with “REF” in the call number are shelved with
reference books in Adult Services.
James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights,
Richard E. Labunski 342.085 LAB
The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman, and the Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1941-1945,
Michael R. Beschloss 940.53144 BES
American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War,
David E. Kaiser 959.7043 KAI
American Presidents, 3rd edition,
Robert P. Watson and Richard Yon, editors
Ref 973.099 AME VOL. 1, and VOL. 2
American Presidents: Year by Year, Lyle Emerson Nelson
Ref 973.099 NEL VOL. 1, VOL. 2, VOL. 3
Why Lincoln Matters: Today More Than Ever,
Mario M. Cuomo 973.7092 CUO
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln,
Doris Kearns Goodwin 973.7092 GOO
Lincoln’s War: The Untold Story of America’s Greatest President as Commander in Chief,
Geoffrey Perret 973.7092 PER
Touched With Fire: Five Presidents and the Civil War Battles That Made Them,
James M. Perry 973.73092 PER
Theodore Rex, Edmund Morris 973.911 MOR
Mornings on Horseback, David G. McCullough 973.911092 MCC
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt:
The Home Front in World War II,
Doris Kearns Goodwin 973.917 GOO
The Best and the Brightest, David Halberstam 973.922 HAL
The Reagans: Portrait of a Marriage,
Anne Edwards 973.927092 EDW
American Rhapsody, Joe Eszterhas 973.929092 ESZ
State of Denial: [Bush at War, Part III],
Bob Woodward 973.931 WOO
John Adams, David G. McCullough B ADAMS
John Quincy Adams, Robert V. Remini B ADAMS
Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President,
Jimmy Carter B CARTER
My Life, Bill Clinton B CLINTON
Eisenhower: Soldier and President,
Stephen E. Ambrose B EISENHOWER
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Tom Wicker B EISENHOWER
Time and Chance: Gerald Ford’s Appointment with History, James M. Cannon B FORD
Warren G. Harding, John W. Dean B HARDING
Andrew Jackson, His Life and Times,
H.W. Brands B JACKSON
The Years of Lyndon Johnson,
Robert A. Caro (in three volumes)
B JOHNSON VOL. 1, VOL. 2, and VOL. 3
Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President,
Robert Dallek B JOHNSON
An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963,
Robert Dallek B KENNEDY
James Madison, Garry Wills B MADISON
James Monroe, Gary Hart B MONROE
The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon, Anthony Summers B NIXON
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom,
Conrad Black B ROOSEVELT
Truman, David G. McCullough B TRUMAN
George Washington: The Founding Father,
Paul Johnson B WASHINGTON
Woodrow Wilson, Louis Auchincloss B WILSON
Woodrow Wilson, H.W. Brands, B WILSON
This is not an exhaustive list of nonfiction on the U.S. presidents.
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