![]() ![]() Alongside each of these authors, we also glimpse the everyday Americans who read them.Īll proceeds from The Store at LBJ sales benefit programming, exhibits, and educational initiatives at the LBJ Presidential Library. We see Reagan painstakingly revising Where’s the Rest of Me?, and Donald Trump negotiating the deal for The Art of the Deal, the volume that made him synonymous with business savvy. ![]() ![]() We see Teddy Roosevelt as a vulnerable first-time author, struggling to write the book that would become a classic of American history. Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan-to cast fresh light on the private drives and self-doubts that fueled our nation’s leaders. Beginning with Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia, the first presidential book to influence a campaign, and John Adams’s Autobiography, the first score-settling presidential memoir, Author in Chief draws on newly uncovered information-including never-before-published letters from Andrew Jackson, John F. ![]() Presidential books have made an enormous impact on American history, catapulting their authors to the national stage and even turning key elections. In this eye-opener of a read, Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote, Craig Fehrman resurrects many such presidential. ![]()
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