Abraham Lincoln by George S. McGovern

Posted on August 31, 2009 by Bob Timmermann

President #16, C-SPAN Historians Ranking #1 The Standard Back when I was in eighth grade, I entered an American history essay contest at a local prep school. The winner would receive a partial scholarship to the school. It was actually a timed test in a classroom setting and we didn’t know what the question would [...]

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LBJ: A Life by Irwin and Debi Unger

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Bob Timmermann

President #36, C-SPAN Historians’ Ranking #11 In Treatment Lyndon Baines Johnson was President for just a little over five years. However, if you try to read some of the biographies that have written about him, you may feel like you need five years to get through all of them. Robert Caro has written three volumes [...]

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And now for a quiz

Posted on August 15, 2009 by Bob Timmermann

With a new review still about another week off, here’s a quiz. The theme is the college that nobody that graduates from, the Electoral College? I’ve asked these questions of other people and they were on Twitter, but I didn’t get a lot of guesses. So I’ll post them here and get few guesses as [...]

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William McKinley by Kevin Phillips

Posted on August 6, 2009 by Bob Timmermann

President #25, C-SPAN Historians’ Ranking #16 The War With Spain Starts Mainly With the Maine While many kids grew up with toy soldiers, my childhood featured a set of plastic toy Presidents. (And much to my glee, a complete set is on display at the Smithsonian now. It includes an intact Lyndon Johnson. Our LBJ [...]

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Brief Interlude

Posted on August 4, 2009 by Bob Timmermann

I should have a new review up this week. And then there will be a longer wait as the next president has a much longer biography to go through. To keep you occupied I have a slideshow of Presidential-themed images taken from my recent trip to Washington. I tossed in a few other older images [...]

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