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Since the office was established in 1789, 45 men have served in 46 presidencies. The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. [4] Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, giving rise to the discrepancy between the ...
Some 19th-century U.S. presidents who wrote autobiographies are James Buchanan and Ulysses S. Grant, though Grant's autobiography is about his time as general during the U.S. Civil War and not about his presidency. Presidential memoir has proved to be a lasting and popular genre—every president since Calvin Coolidge has published one after ...
Six Crises is the first book written by Richard Nixon, who later became the 37th president of the United States. It was published in 1962, and it recounts his role in six major political situations. Nixon wrote the book in response to John F. Kennedy 's Pulitzer Prize–winning Profiles in Courage, which had greatly improved Kennedy's public ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt. 4,422 days. (1933–1945) William Henry Harrison. 31 days. (1841) This is a list of presidents of the United States by time in office. The listed number of days is calculated as the difference between dates, which counts the number of calendar days except the last day. The length of a full four-year presidential term of ...
Bibliography of William Howard Taft. Bibliography of Woodrow Wilson. Bibliography of Warren G. Harding. Bibliography of Calvin Coolidge. Bibliography of Herbert Hoover. Bibliography of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Bibliography of Harry S. Truman. Bibliography of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bibliography of John F. Kennedy.
Written as a cri de coeur against what Nixon saw as serious threats to U.S. security from Soviet expansionism in the late 1970s. Leaders. Random House (1982) ISBN 0-446-51249-4. A character study of various leaders that Nixon came to know during his career. Real Peace. Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd (1984) ISBN 0-283-99076-7.
Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. New York: Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-04525-3. Burner, David (1988). John F. Kennedy and a New Generation. Pearson Longman. ISBN 9780205603459. Casey, Shaun. The Making of a Catholic President: Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960 (2009)
Of presidents since 1960, only Ronald Reagan and (in interim results) Barack Obama placed in the top ten; Obama was the highest-ranked president since Harry Truman (1945–1953). Most of the other recent presidents held middling positions, though George W. Bush placed in the bottom ten, the lowest-ranked president since Warren Harding (1921 ...