Tavistock Books joins millions of Americans in welcoming President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to the White House, bringing much needed peace and guidance back to the American people.
Ben Franklin wants to read this list of his faves’ faves… just like us! 😉
1. George Washington (1789-97): Cato, a Tragedy by Joseph Addison
2. John Adams (1797-1801): An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution by Mary Wollstonecraft
3. Thomas Jefferson (1801-09): Literally everything
4. James Madison (1809-17): The Collected Essays of John Locke by John Locke
5. James Monroe (1817-25): Pleasures of the Imaginations by Mark Akenside
6. John Quincy Adams (1825-29): Oberon by Christoph Martin Wieland
7. Andrew Jackson (1829-37): The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
8. Martin Van Buren (1837-41): Autobiography of Martin Van Buren by Martin Van Buren
9. William Henry Harrison (1841): A Memoir of the Public Services of William Henry Harrison by James Hall
10. John Tyler (1841-45): The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
11. James K. Polk (1845-49): His Diary
12. Zachary Taylor (1849-50): The History of England by David Hume
13. Millard Fillmore (1850-53): A Dictionary
14. Franklin Pierce (1853-57): The Life of Franklin Pierce by Nathaniel Hawthorne
15. James Buchanan (1857-61): Life of George Washington by Jared Sparks
16. Abraham Lincoln (1861-65): Collected Works of William Shakespeare
17. Andrew Johnson (1865-69): The American Speaker
18. Ulysses S. Grant (1869-77): Most likely a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
19. Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881): The Collected Speeches of Daniel Webster
20. James Garfield (1881): Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
21. Chester Arthur (1881-85): Something by Charles Dickens or William Makepeace Thackeray
22. Grover Cleveland (1885-89): Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone
23. Benjamin Harrison (1889-93): One of Walter Scott’s novels
24. Grover Cleveland (1893-97): Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone
25. William McKinley (1897-1901): Collected poems by Lord Byron
26. Theodore Roosevelt (1901-09): Influence of Sea Power Upon History by Alfred Thayer Mahan
27. William Howard Taft (1909-13): Something about the Supreme Court… probably
28. Woodrow Wilson (1913-21): Congressional Government by Walter Bagehot
29. Warren Harding (1921-23): Rules of Poker
30. Calvin Coolidge (1923-29): The Collected Works of Cicero
31. Herbert Hoover (1929-33): David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
32. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-45): A collection of Rudyard Kipling poems
33. Harry S. Truman (1945-53): The Lives of Great Men and Famous Women by Charles Francis Horne
34. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-61): A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
35. John F. Kennedy (1961-63): From Russia with Love by Ian Flemming
36. Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-69): The Other America by Michael Harrington
37. Richard Nixon (1969-74): Anything by Leo Tolstoy
38. Gerald Ford (1974-77): Any Horatio Alger novel
39. James Carter (1977-81): Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans
40. Ronald Reagan (1981-89): The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
41. George H.W. Bush (1989-93): War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
42. William J. Clinton (1993-2001): Meditations by Marcus Aureilus
43. George W. Bush (2001-09): The Bible
44. Barack Obama (2009-2016): Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson and/or Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
45. Donald Trump (2017-2021): All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel by Erich Maria Remarque
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President Joseph R. Biden Jr. (2021 – ): Ulysses by James Joyce
Vice President Kamala Harris (2021 – ): Native Son by Richard Wright
