If you’ve already started to forget what a normal presidency looks like, it might be time to crack open a few of those presidential biographies in your TBR pile — and for more than a literary ...

As a young historian, Douglas Brinkley published back-to-back biographies of two prominent Cold War diplomats, Dean Acheson and James Forrestal. After the books appeared in the early 1990s, Stephen… ...

Where should the president-elect start? Presidents make good copy, and that's as attractive to historians as it is to journalists. There are thousands of presidential biographies out there.

Jon Meacham, Annette Gordon Reed, and Ron Chernow talked about the process of writing presidential biographies. President George W. Bush provided introductory remarks.

Some biographies affirm the public view of a president, others alter it, and this volume falls firmly in the latter category. In public image, Coolidge was conservative, taciturn, uninspiring.

First, not every president is “presidential,” if you know what I mean. That is, the average American can only name four or five in a sitting, so you need a celebrity president.

What are the best presidential biographies? A reader writes: I love listening to Between the Covers on National Review. Thank you for all the good book ideas! I was wondering if you had a list of… ...