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The Best Presidential Biographies to Add to Your Reading List in 2023

Jun 10, 2023
Dimitris Passas

NOTE: This list is a republication- Source: Tertulia.

Pulitzer winners abound in this list of presidential biographies that will stand the test of time.

His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life

Jonathan Alter

This definitive biography of Carter shines light on a complicated and often poorly understood man and his legacy. Book critic Michael Schaub called it "a book that's bound to fascinate anyone with an interest in American history."

Truman

David McCullough

This 1992 biography of the 33rd president won this celebrated popular historian his first of two Pulitzer Prizes. Harvard professor Robert N. Stavins called Truman "a remarkable book about an ordinary man who did great things."


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