George W. Bush by TBA

Posted on November 30, 2009 by Bob Timmermann

President #43, C-SPAN Historians ranking #36
… and of the Son
My goal in this blog was to review a biography of every former President. I also wanted to do it in a random order.
At first, I assumed I would have a more leisurely stroll through the biographies of the 42ish men who served in the White [...]

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George H.W. Bush by Timothy Naftali

Posted on November 20, 2009 by Bob Timmermann

President #41, C-SPAN Historians Ranking #18
In the name of the father …
George Herbert Walker Bush (not that anybody called him that when he was President except when he was sworn in) did not have an easy act to follow, succeeding one of America’s most popular Chief Executives in Ronald Reagan. He came into office in [...]

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Dwight D. Eisenhower by Tom Wicker

Posted on October 13, 2009 by Bob Timmermann

President #34, C-SPAN Historians’ Ranking #8
It’s Been Said That People Liked This Guy
When I was a kid in the 1970s, the 1950s were considered a cool time. “Happy Days” and “Laverne & Shirley” dominated television. Coming out of the turbulent 1960s (a decade glamorized in much different way from the 1950s), the 1950s were a [...]

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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 of a biography [...]

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