OT: Best presidential biographies?

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    • February 21, 2017 at 2:28 pm #21708
      Thunder
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      I’m ordering Ron Chernow’s biography of George Washington, but what are the best presidential biographies you’ve read? I read biographies of presidents when I was a kid (Washington, Lincoln, Kennedy, etc.), but I haven’t read any since.

    • February 21, 2017 at 4:13 pm #21710
      GKblue
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      Not a presidential biography, but I would recommend a book called The Arsenal of Democracy by A.J. Baime.

      It is the history of Detroit during WW2 and especially Edsel Ford’s unbelievable efforts to build a bomber a day. There is a ton of history in it; some that was new to me and some that explained a lot about the makeup of the city and SE Michigan afterwords. Roosevelt, Henry Ford and his henchman Harry Bennett, Edsel Ford and even Lindburgh are prominent.

      It is absolutley unbelievable the difference in the world we live in today.

    • February 21, 2017 at 5:25 pm #21714
      Roanman
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      Mark Twain – Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

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