A Presidential Library?

With everyone gearing up for the, you might be wondering about what makes a great President.  You can read about Presidents in our nation’s history.  What qualities do the best Presidents seem to possess?  Which of this year’s candidates seems to have these traits?  Here are some of the IHE Library’s resources about the U. S. Presidents.

Title	Author	Summary	Call number	ISBN or LCCN
The Complete Book of U. S. Presidents	William A. DeGregorio	Lives of the Presidents from Washington to Reagan (who was President when the book was published)	E176.1 .D43 1984	ISBN 0934878366
Living Biographies of American Statesmen	Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas	Lives of Presidents Washington, Monroe, Jackson, Lincoln, Cleveland, Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Wilson, and others	E176 .T54 1942	LCCN 42013211
A Documentary History of the United States	Richard D. Heffner, editor	Texts of “primary sources”—original materials— including important publications and speeches from American history, many by Presidents, from the eighteenth century to the twentieth.   Examples include The Declaration of Independence and Washington’s farewell address.	E173 .H5 1965	LCCN 65004162
Founders of Freedom in America:  Lives of the Men Who Signed the Constitution of the United States and So Helped to Establish the United States of America	David C. Whitney	A collection of short biographies of the Constitution signers, including Presidents George Washing ton and James Madison and other “founding fathers”	E221 .W57 1965	LCCN 65013057
Founders of Freedom in America:  Lives of the Men Who Signed the Declaration of Independence and So Helped to Establish the United States of America	David C. Whitney	A collection of short biographies of the Declaration of Independence signers, including Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson and other “founding fathers”	E221 .W57 1964	LCCN 64013907
Lincoln:  A Novel	Gore Vidal	Before you see the upcoming movie Lincoln, you can read this novel.  It is considered biographical fiction because it combines real people and events with the author’s invention.  Biographical fiction imagines what real people were saying and thinking while their world was changing.	PS3543.126 L5 1984	ISBN 9780375708763
Chester Alan Arthur	Zachary Karabell	The biography of a man who never thought he would become President --until he did in 1881.	E692 .K37 2004	ISBN 0805069518
Theodore Roosevelt	Louis Auchincloss	The colorful life of the 26th President, in large type	E757 .A88 2002b	ISBN 0786241357
Sara and Eleanor:  The Story of Sara Delano Roosevelt and Her Daughter-in-Law, Eleanor Roosevelt	Janice Pottker	This book is about President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s mother and his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, one of the United States’ most active First Ladies.	E807.1.R56 P67 2004	ISBN 0312303408
An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Publications, 1991-2010, on Dwight David Eisenhower	Jessica Ziparo	An annotated biography is a list of books and other resources about a subject featuring notes and opinions and each one.  If you want to read about a subject but are not sure where to start, an annotated biography can help.  This book looks at other books about President Eisenhower.	E836 .Z56 2011	ISBN 9780615490809
A Thousand Days:  John F. Kennedy in the White House	Arthur M. Schlesinger	The term, cut short, of the 35th President	E841 .S3 1965	LCCN 65020218
Thirteen Days:  A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis	Robert F. Kennedy	The account of a crisis that test President Kennedy, written by his brother and Attorney General	E183.8.R9 K42 1969	LCCN 69015949
How the Good Guys Finally Won:  Notes from an Impeachment Summer	Jimmy Breslin	Not all books about Presidents have positive views of their subjects.  This book examines the events surrounding Richard Nixon’s resignation in 1974.	E861 .B73 1975	ISBN 0670382078
American Hero	Larry Beinhart	American Hero is considered alternate history:  even though some of the characters, such as President George W. Bush, are real, the author creates events that never happened.  The movie Wag the Dog is loosely based on this satirical novel.	PS3552 .E425 A8 1993	ISBN 0679427260
Great  Speeches:  Volume 19 (DVD)	The Educational Video Group	Watch and listen to speeches by and about Presidents, including Lyndon Johnson and Obama.	PN6121 .G742 2004 DVD