Many presidents of the United States have written autobiographies about their presidencies and/or (some periods of) their life before their time in office. Some 19th-century U.S. presidents who wrote autobiographies are James Buchanan and Ulysses S. Grant, though Grant's autobiography is about his time as general during the U.S. Civil War and not about his presidency. Presidential memoir has proved to be a lasting and popular genre—every president since Calvin Coolidge has published one after leaving office, and more recent entries have earned their authors tens of millions of dollars in royalties. [1]
Title | President | Editor | Publisher | Date | ISBN |
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The Diary of James K. Polk | James K. Polk | ||||
The Diary of James A. Garfield | James A. Garfield | ||||
The Eisenhower Diaries | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Robert Ferrell | W W Norton & Co Inc | 1976 | ISBN 978-0-393-33180-6 |
Prelude to Leadership: The European Diary of John F. Kennedy: Summer 1945 | John F. Kennedy | Regnery Publishing | 1995 | ISBN 978-0-89526-459-6 | |
The Letters of John F. Kennedy | John F. Kennedy | Martin W. Sandler | Bloomsbury Press | 2013 | ISBN 978-1-60819-271-7 |
Richard Nixon: Speeches, Writings, Documents | Richard Nixon | Rick Perlstein | Princeton University Press | 2010 | ISBN 978-1-4008-3568-3 |
White House Diary | Jimmy Carter | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2010 | ISBN 978-0-374-28099-4 | |
The Reagan Diaries | Ronald Reagan | Douglas Brinkley | HarperCollins | 2007 | ISBN 978-0-06-087600-5 |
All the Best | George H. W. Bush | Scribner | 1999 | ISBN 978-0-684-83958-5 |
Free-access presidential autobiographical works