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10 Worst and 10 Best Presidents Bibliography

Suggested reading:

General Works on the Presidency and the Constitution:

Brion McClanahan, 9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America and Four Who Tried to Save Her
(Regnery History, 2016).

Brion McClanahan, The Founding Fathers Guide to the Constitution, (Regnery History, 2012).

Kevin Gutzman, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution, (Regnery, 2007).

Raoul Berger, Federalism: The Founders Design, (University of Oklahoma Press, 1987).

M.E. Bradford, Original Intentions: On the Making and Ratification of the United States
Constitution. (University of Georgia Press, 1994).

John Taylor, New Views on the Constitution of the United States. (Several editions).

St. George Tucker, View of the Constitution of the United States with Selected Writings, ed.
Clyde N. Wilson, (Liberty Fund 1999).

A.P. Upshur, A Brief Inquiry into the True Nature of Our Federal Government: Being a Review
of Judge Storys Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States. (Several editions).

Thomas E. Woods and Kevin Gutzman, Who Killed the Constitution? The Federal Government
vs. American Liberty from World War I to Barack Obama. (Three Rivers Press, 2008).

John V. Denson, ed., Reassessing the Presidency: The Rise of the Executive State and the
Decline of Freedom (Ludwig Von Mises Institute, 2001).

Ivan Eland, Recarving Rushmore: Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty
(Independent Studies Institute, 2009).

Thomas E. Woods, Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century, (Regnery,
2010).

William H. Rehnquist, All The Laws But One: Civil Liberties in Wartime, (Knopf, 1998).

On Individual Presidents:

Richard E. Ellis, The Union at Risk: Jacksonian Democracy, States Rights, and the Nullification
Crisis. (Oxford University Press, 1987).

Douglas Southall Freeman, George Washington: A Biography. 7 vols. New York: Charles
Scribners Sons, 1951.
Robert V. Remini, Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845,
(Harper and Row, 1984).

Thomas DiLorenzo, The Real Lincoln. (Crown Forum, 2002).

Howard K. Beale, Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of America to World Power, (Johns Hopkins
Press, 1953).

Scott A. Berg, Wilson. (Simon and Schuster, 2013).

John T. Flynn, The Roosevelt Myth, (Delvin-Adair, 1956).

David McCullough, Truman, (Simon and Schuster, 1992).

Robert A. Caro, Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President. (Penguin Books, 2004).

Stephen E. Ambrose, Nixon: The Triumph of a Politician 1962-1972. (Simon and Schuster,
1989).

Sam J. Ervin, The Whole Truth: The Watergate Conspiracy. (Random House, 1980).

James Bovard, "Feeling Your Pain": The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the
Clinton-Gore Years. (St. Martins Press, 2000).

James Bovard, Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the
World of Evil, (Macmillan, 2004).

Michael Nelson and Barbara A. Perry, eds. 41: Inside the Presidency of George H.W. Bush.
(Cornell University Press, 2014).

Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obamas Impeachment.
(Encounter Books, 2014).

John M. Pafford, The Forgotten Conservative: Rediscovering Grover Cleveland, Washington,


D.C.: Regnery History, 2013.

Amity Shlaes, Coolidge, (Harper, 2013).

Dumas Malone, Jefferson and His Time, 6 volumes. (Little, Brown, 1948-1981).

Oliver Perry Chitwood, John Tyler: Campion of the Old South, (American Political Biography
Press, 1990).

Kevin Gutzman, James Madison and the Making of America (St. Martins Press, 2012).
Harry Ammon, James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity (University of Virginia Press,
1990).

Joel H. Sibley, Martin Van Buren and the Emergence of American Popular Politics (Roman and
Littlefield, 2005).

Peter Wallner, Franklin Pierce: Martyr for the Union (Plaidswede Publishing, 2007).

Holman Hamilton, Zachary Taylor: Soldier in the White House (Bobbs-Merrill, 1951).

Howard K. Beale, The Critical Year: A Study of Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction (Ungar
Publishing, 1958).

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