Pathfinder: Presidents of the United States

Scope|Subject Headings|Overview Sources|Biography|Circulating Books|Periodicals, Journals & Trade Publications

SCOPE: The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline for student research. It is not intended as a comprehensive listing, but as a selective sampling of the many types of materials available in the library. Subjects covered include elections, trivia, historical documents, and biographies. 

SUBJECT HEADINGS 

Books dealing with U. S. presidents are listed in the Baddour Library's online catalog under the following subject headings:

OVERVIEW SOURCES

REF JK 1976.M57 1999 Elections A to Z

BIOGRAPHY

Anderson, Nancy Scott. The Generals--Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. New York: Knopf, 1988.
 

Bornet, Vaughn Davis. The Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1983. Brookhiser, Richard. Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington. New York: Free Press, 1996.

Burk, Robert Frederick. The Eisenhower Administration and Black Civil Rights. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1984. Caro, Robert A. The Years of Lyndon Johnson. New York: Knopf, 1990.

Cooper, John Milton. The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore  Roosevelt. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1983.

Davis, Kenneth Sydney. FDR, the War President, 1940-1943: A History. New York: Random House, 2000. Fausold, Martin L. The Presidency of Herbert C. Hoover. Lawrence, Kan: Press of Kansas, 1985.

Hargrove, Erwin C. Jimmy Carter as President: Leadership and the Politics of the Public Good. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988.

Hersh, Seymour M. The Dark Side of Camelot. Boston: little, Brown, 1997. Hoogenboom, Ari Arthur. Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior and President. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1995.

McCullough, David G. John Adams. New York: Simon& Schuster, 2001. Peterson, Norma Louis. The Presidencies of William Harrison & John Tyler. Lawrence, Kansas: Kansas University Press, 1989. Riemer, Neal. James Madison : Creating the American Constitution. Washington,D.C. Congressional Quarterly, 1986.

Rutland, Robert Allen. The Presidency of James Madison. Lawrence, Kansas: 
University Press of Kansas, 1990.

Schwartz, Barry. Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory. Chciago:
University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Stephanopoulos, George. All Too Human: A Political Education. Boston: Little, Brown. 1999.

Ward, Geoffrey C. A First Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt. New York: Harper& Row, 1989.

Wilson, Douglas L. Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.

CIRCULATING BOOKS 

Some representative books from the Circulating Books located on the second floor of the library are:

Dallek, Robert. Hail to the Chief: The Making and Unmaking of American Presidents. New York: Hyperion, 1996.

Genovese, Michael A. The Power of the American Presidency: 1789-2000. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Marton, Kati. Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our Recent History. New York: Pantheon Books, 2001.

Mayer, William G. ed. In Pursuit of the White House: How We Choose Our Presidential Nominees. Chatham,N.J: Chatham House Publishers, 1996.

Newman, Bruce I. The Marketing of the President: Political Marketing as Campaign 
Strategy. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 1994.

Skocpol, Theda and Morris P. Fiorina, eds. Civic Engagement in American Democracy. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1999.
 

Tebbel, John William. The Press and the Presidency: From George Bush to Ronald  Reagan. New York: Oxford Press, 1985. Thurber, James A. & Candace J. Nelson, eds. Campaign Warriors: The Role of Political Consultants in Elections. Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution Press, 2000.

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE PUBLICATIONS 
 

Click the link for a list of full text journals available through our databases in: History - Americas - General VIDEOS E457.L6995 1994 Lincoln

Updated 02/08/2007