{"id":3942,"date":"2021-01-19T11:10:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T19:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tavbooks.com\/?p=3942"},"modified":"2021-01-20T00:35:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T08:35:23","slug":"favorite-books-of-past-us-presidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.tavbooks.com\/?p=3942","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Books of Past US Presidents"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Ben Franklin wants to read this list of his faves’ faves… just like us! \ud83d\ude09<\/p><\/div>\n

DISCLAIMER: Please, dear readers, take this list with a grain of salt! While some are irrefutable, stated by the Presidents themselves, others have been assumed. See the full list by Dave Odegard, explained in detail, <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
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1. George Washington (1789-97): <\/strong>Cato, a Tragedy<\/em>\u00a0by Joseph Addison<\/p>\n

2. John Adams (1797-1801): <\/strong>An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution<\/em>\u00a0by Mary Wollstonecraft<\/p>\n

3. Thomas Jefferson (1801-09): <\/strong>Literally everything<\/p>\n

4. James Madison (1809-17): <\/strong>The Collected Essays of John Locke<\/em>\u00a0by John Locke<\/p>\n

5. James Monroe (1817-25): <\/strong>Pleasures of the Imaginations<\/em>\u00a0by Mark Akenside<\/p>\n

6. John Quincy Adams (1825-29): <\/strong>Oberon<\/em>\u00a0by Christoph Martin Wieland<\/p>\n

7. Andrew Jackson (1829-37): <\/strong>The Vicar of Wakefield<\/em>\u00a0by Oliver Goldsmith<\/p>\n

8. Martin Van Buren (1837-41): <\/strong>Autobiography of Martin Van Buren<\/em>\u00a0by Martin Van Buren<\/p>\n

9. William Henry Harrison (1841): <\/strong>A Memoir of the Public Services of William Henry Harrison<\/em>\u00a0by James Hall<\/p>\n

10. John Tyler (1841-45): <\/strong>The Wealth of Nations<\/em>\u00a0by Adam Smith<\/p>\n

11. James K. Polk (1845-49): <\/strong>His Diary<\/p>\n

12. Zachary Taylor (1849-50): <\/strong>The History of England<\/em>\u00a0by David Hume<\/p>\n

13. Millard Fillmore (1850-53): <\/strong>A Dictionary<\/p>\n

14. Franklin Pierce (1853-57): <\/strong>The Life of Franklin Pierce<\/em>\u00a0by Nathaniel Hawthorne<\/p>\n

15. James Buchanan (1857-61): <\/strong>Life of George Washington<\/em>\u00a0by Jared Sparks<\/p>\n

16. Abraham Lincoln (1861-65): <\/strong>Collected Works of William Shakespeare<\/em><\/p>\n

17. Andrew Johnson (1865-69): <\/strong>The American Speaker<\/em><\/p>\n

18. Ulysses S. Grant (1869-77): <\/strong>Most likely a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton<\/p>\n

19. Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881): <\/strong>The Collected Speeches of Daniel Webster<\/em><\/p>\n

20. James Garfield (1881): <\/strong>Robinson Crusoe<\/em> by Daniel Defoe<\/p>\n

21. Chester Arthur (1881-85): <\/strong>Something by Charles Dickens or William Makepeace Thackeray<\/p>\n

22. Grover Cleveland (1885-89): <\/strong>Commentaries on the Laws of England<\/em>\u00a0by William Blackstone<\/p>\n

23. Benjamin Harrison (1889-93): <\/strong>One of Walter Scott\u2019s novels<\/p>\n

24. Grover Cleveland (1893-97): <\/strong>Commentaries on the Laws of England<\/em>\u00a0by William Blackstone<\/p>\n

25. William McKinley (1897-1901): <\/strong>Collected poems by Lord Byron<\/p>\n

26. Theodore Roosevelt (1901-09):<\/strong> Influence of Sea Power Upon History<\/em>\u00a0by Alfred Thayer Mahan<\/p>\n

27. William Howard Taft (1909-13): <\/strong>Something about the Supreme Court\u2026 probably<\/p>\n

28. Woodrow Wilson (1913-21): <\/strong>Congressional Government<\/em>\u00a0by Walter Bagehot<\/p>\n

29. Warren Harding (1921-23): <\/strong>Rules of Poker<\/em><\/p>\n

30. Calvin Coolidge (1923-29): <\/strong>The Collected Works of Cicero<\/p>\n

31. Herbert Hoover (1929-33): <\/strong>David Copperfield<\/em>\u00a0by Charles Dickens<\/p>\n

32. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-45): <\/strong>A collection of Rudyard Kipling poems<\/p>\n

33. Harry S. Truman (1945-53): <\/strong>The Lives of Great Men and Famous Women<\/em>\u00a0by Charles Francis Horne<\/p>\n

34. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-61): <\/strong>A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court<\/em>\u00a0by Mark Twain<\/p>\n

35. John F. Kennedy (1961-63): <\/strong>From Russia with Love<\/em>\u00a0by Ian Flemming<\/p>\n

36. Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-69): <\/strong>The Other America<\/em>\u00a0by Michael Harrington<\/p>\n

37. Richard Nixon (1969-74): <\/strong>Anything by Leo Tolstoy<\/p>\n

38. Gerald Ford (1974-77): <\/strong>Any Horatio Alger novel<\/p>\n

39. James Carter (1977-81): <\/strong>Let Us Now Praise Famous Men<\/em>\u00a0by James Agee and Walker Evans<\/p>\n

40. Ronald Reagan (1981-89): <\/strong>The Hunt for Red October<\/em>\u00a0by Tom Clancy<\/p>\n

41. George H.W. Bush (1989-93): <\/strong>War and Peace<\/em>\u00a0by Leo Tolstoy<\/p>\n

42. William J. Clinton (1993-2001): <\/strong>Meditations<\/em>\u00a0by Marcus Aureilus<\/p>\n

43. George W. Bush (2001-09): <\/strong>The Bible<\/p>\n

44. Barack Obama (2009-2016): <\/strong>Self-Reliance<\/em>\u00a0by Ralph Waldo Emerson and\/or\u00a0Song of Solomon<\/em>\u00a0by Toni Morrison<\/p>\n

45. Donald Trump (2017-2021): <\/strong>All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel<\/em> by \u00a0Erich Maria Remarque<\/p>\n

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\nPresident Joseph R. Biden Jr. (2021 – ): Ulysses <\/em>by James Joyce\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Vice President Kamala Harris (2021 – ): Native Son <\/em>by Richard Wright<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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