Best us presidents biographies according to redditors
We found 83 Reddit comments discussing the best us presidents biographies. We ranked the 37 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
7. Partners in Crime: The Clintons' Scheme to Monetize the White House for Personal Profit
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There's actually a whole book sort of about this: Commander in Cheat. Rick Reilly lays out all of the massively pathetic ways that Trump cheats at golf just to inflate his image. I wouldn't be surprised if hosts a private golf tournament at Doral after all this booing just to rally his ego.
Rick Reilly wrote a book about this earlier this year - Commander in Cheat - and it's hilarious and exactly what you'd expect.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0316528080/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_LXwLDb43VQ2FW
“The caddies got so used to seeing him kick his ball back onto the fairway they came up with a nickname for him: ‘Pele.’” Basically endless anecdotes about him cheating, winning seniors tournaments he was too young to be in but then claiming he won the pro tournament.
https://www.amazon.com/You-Give-Pig-White-House/dp/1250256410 because it has pictures of the inside.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/if-you-give-a-pig-the-white-house-faye-kanouse/1131003756#/ link to the Barnes & Noble site.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/barnes-noble-trump-pig-children/ Snopes page for the inevitable and predictable conservative outrage.
Absolutely!
For TR, I highly recommended Edmund Morris’ Three Volume bio . The first volume, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, won a Pulitzer and is one of my all-time favorite books.
For a general social and political history of the times, check out “The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
There have been a couple of bios on Alice, but the two best that I have read were Alice by Stacey A. Cordery and Hissing Cousins
which chronicles and parallels her life and rivalry with her First Cousin, Eleanor.
For FDR, my favorite single volume bio is Traitor To His Class by HW Brands. It’s been criticized in certain Right Wing circles as “too biased”, but screw those assholes.
For a generalized overview of the Roosevelt family, check out Ken Burns’ doc, The Roosevelts: An Intimate History. It’s on Netflix.
That’s just scratching the surface, but I have found that to be the most accessible and readable stuff.
> I cannot take the shit seriously with conspiracy theories and nonsense
Research "The Boys on the Tracks" and look through some of the lists and read up (gonna take some hours) before you make up your mind.
Conspiracies are real. Its how we got Vietnam, Watergate, the Iran-Contra affair, the Keating Five, the first gulf war, the second gulf war, do I need to go on? How many lives and how much money were lost/made just on those verified conspiracies I just listed? All of which were at the beginning "pooh-poohed" just as you're doing now.
I sure as hell don't believe that the list on (for example) Arkancide.com represents "the truth." But there are a lot of unsolved murders and suspicious deaths around the Clintons. A fucking lot. I don't have the time or resources to check all the stories, but I've done some cross-checking and a lot of the stories are true regarding the deaths. The connections to the Clintons are usually very clear, but of course, that doesn't prove guilt. It is a very grey area.
https://www.amazon.com/Partners-Crime-Clintons-Monetize-Personal/dp/1944229337
FBI anon said that although not 100% correct, he was on the right track in this book
The Boys on the Tracks: Death, Denial, and a Mother's Crusade to Bring Her Son's Killers to Justice
https://www.amazon.com/Boys-Tracks-Mothers-Crusade-Killers/dp/0312198418 this book is excellent and there were more than two boys murdered.
I'm not able to find his credentials.
I was able to find this book that he wrote, though https://www.amazon.com/Trump-Inside-Story-University/dp/1944869735
Under "About the Author":
> STEPHEN GILPIN was born in Pittstown, PA. He has taught real estate for more than a decade, and has initiated and sealed countless deals, in Florida, New York, Connecticut and elsewhere. This is his first book. He lives in New York City.
Nothing about his credentials though.
Couple of excerpts:
>Sometimes, when Mr. Trump cheats to win at golf, it’s so outlandish all you can do is laugh. NBC sports announcer Mike Tirico lost to Mr. Trump one day when Mr. Trump secretly kicked Mr. Tirico’s pin-hugging ball into a bunker. What did Mr. Tirico do? He smiled and paid up.
>He will actually chip away from the green sometimes in order to avoid bunkers. If he gets in one, plenty of people have seen him just throw it out, saving him the trouble.
I've heard Destiny say the only compliment about Trump he could think of is that apparently he is a skilled golfer. I just read this article talking about how much Trump cheats at golf. Not something I knew but not surprising in the least.
But also it's kinda funny/bizarre that someone wrote a whole book about how Trump plays golf: https://www.amazon.com/Commander-Cheat-Golf-Explains-Trump-ebook/dp/B07H4Z26T7
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Also, there was a great book written by Mara Leveritt on the case
Finally, the podcast True Crime Garage did a 3 or 4 part deep dive into this case. It was a great, and I would highly recommend listening.
Are you serious? Link Link
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000N0WTC4/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Glad we're on the same page. Have you read Edmund Morris' trilogy on him? I really don't think I would have considered him an ass. He was a strong personality but he was an honest man who expected as much of himself as those around him.
Clinton was as shady as the rest. Glass-Steagall went belly up on his watch, and he and Hillary are wealthy power players who don't give a shit about anything but amassing more wealth and power.
Check out a book called The Boys on the Tracks.
As a side note, I cleaned his chimney once. This is not a euphemism.
Or too much Sarah Vowell. :-)
I love the Mental Floss History of the World and Mental Floss History of the United States. Those two may be exactly what you're looking for. Also, check out Sarah Vowell. Assasination Vacation is great. Bill Bryson's work is excellent. A Short History of Nearly Everything is mind-blowing and I've heard great things about At Home which is next on my reading list. :)
I went through your Salon Article this is what I found:
" War on sex ed heats up: Right-wing activists in California weaponize fake news
A supposed “grassroots” rebellion against sex ed in California is fueled by a right-wing propaganda campaign"
Those are their claims.
It starts with " After George W. Bush left the White House, many people believed that his failed sex education policies — which forced states to teach kids abstinence until marriage and rejected contraception education — were over and done with. The sad reality is that in the decade since then, undoing the damage has been a slow and incomplete process. "
That is a strawman. They're attempting to compare the parents who are upset to an abstinence campaign . That isn't went they want, they want a choice in sexual education and when as parents.
" Conservatives have turned to the same tactics to undermine California's law that right-wing forces and Russian propagandists used to distort the 2016 election: Disseminating fake news and lies through social media. "
Buzz word to compare Christians, Muslims, Jewish, and other religious people (because the coalition is multiple belief systems to Russians in order to disqualify their views. It has nothing to do with Russia or Russians. An attempt to manipulate the reader by comparing two unlike things.
On one of the articles listed:
" The California Healthy Youth Act went into effect in 2016 and requires that middle and high schools teach unbiased and medically accurate sex education, including lessons on birth control and abortion. But there is concern about how much support the curriculum is getting in the politically conservative central San Joaquin Valley, which has a history of pushback against such lessons.
Read more here: r/https://www.fresnobee.com/news/special-reports/too-young/article165478887.html#storylink=cpy"
Some business owners don't want to sell condoms to young people. That is up to the store and their policy. It seems Salon, and some various groups concerned with sex ed, not only want to take away a parent's right to raise their child (going against multiple religious and cultural groups) They want to expand enforcement to the private sector.
" Using titillating but false accusations, such as the claim that kids are being taught how to have anal sex in school, conservatives are sowing panic in local communities, spreading fear that a curriculum meant to keep kids safe is hurting them instead. "
Salon never disproved that kids were not being informed about anal sex, the proof they list is some mother complaining about it. They proved that some parents don't want it talked about.
One of the sources Salon gives, which is a broad racial makeup of those protesting and gives examples is here.
" In reality, the lessons for high school students simply acknowledge that things like oral and anal sex exist, something teenagers are already talking about and many experiment with.
Here's a screenshot from a handout for ninth-graders, which shows how the mentions of oral and anal sex are framed:"
Salon admits that what parent's are complaining about does exist, in fact that is seen multiple times in the resources and the article itself. The argument salon has against it is "So what".
It's an opinion piece that did prove any of it's claims, in fact the evidence provided actually disproves their claim. It is no surprise that this opinion piece is written by " Amanda Marcotte is a politics writer for Salon. Her new book, "Troll Nation: How The Right Became Trump-Worshipping Monsters Set On Rat-F*cking Liberals, America, and Truth Itself," is out now. She's on Twitter @AmandaMarcotte "
You think a book like that from Amanada Marcotte is going to be unbiased? No. It is just more evidence, along with this article, to show her narrowed minded and blind when it comes to other's beliefs and cultures.
Let's go over her original claims:
" War on sex ed heats up: Right-wing activists in California weaponize fake news:
Never proven, and a sensationalist title. While there are some christian groups behind it, there are other groups against it as well. The thing they have in common seems to be they are all parents who do not like the sexual ed program for their child.
A supposed “grassroots” rebellion against sex ed in California is fueled by a right-wing propaganda campaign"
The articles listed and evidence given show that this isn't the case. The article actually disproved this. It is also not a "war on sex education", but parents who don't like what is being taught and when.
Throughout the piece, and we can go over more examples, the writer showed all the claims they said in at least some ways were fulfilled. Now in some cases it was exaggerated. However, throughout the article it is obvious that the writer is tone deaf to the cultural beliefs of many in California who do not want this for their child. That is what is happening. Should parents have a say in what their child is taught regarding sex education, or should the government's power supersede that of a parent, and in some cases, private businesses?
She doesn't understand this, and she won't. I don't believe it's some vast conspiracy, and in fact in most articles the parents didn't think the same. Most were not against any form of sex education, they wanted a say in what was taught and when. I think that is a reasonable request.
They are usually dead or in asylum in another country on condition they not talk. There is a great book of seven interviews with deposed dictators called Talk of the Devil that has some incredible chats.
The people themselves are not altogether that interesting. Usually they're in denial or blame it on someone else. The stories around them and their circumstances are fascinating though.
Not really a guide but I love The Joyous Cosmology by Watts. Has a bit more woo than a materialist might like, but Watts' brand of woo is palatable and non-dogmatic -- more of a try "try THIS on for size" than a "so THIS is this the way the universe is."
You may also find The Secret Chief Revealed insightful in terms of the therapeutic benefits to tripping, and how to approach psychedelics seriously.
Prometheus Rising, while more of an owner's manual to the human mind than a tripping guide, can help with recognizing your own biases and trying new perspectives -- highly relevant to the psychedelic experience and beloved by many psychonauts.
https://www.amazon.com/Boys-Tracks-Mothers-Crusade-Killers/dp/0312198418
Please read before you claim this is fake news again without anything to back up your claims. It's so childish and so harmful to unsolved cases. I'm done with this conversation because there's too much to say and too little time.
Have a good night friend.
Theodore Roosevelt trilogy by Edmund Morris. Teddy was a fuckin badass.
Here's a link to HOMEWRECKERS, the book: https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062869531/homewreckers/
I'd recommend this classic by Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, written more than 100 years ago -- it could't be more current:
https://louisville.edu/law/library/special-collections/the-louis-d.-brandeis-collection/other-peoples-money-by-louis-d.-brandeis
Here are links to some of the books I read writing mine that I found the most helpful:
https://www.amazon.com/After-Music-Stopped-Financial-Response/dp/B00K50DPGQ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=V8LM8ERAIGJV&keywords=alan+blinder+after+the+music+stopped&qid=1572018695&s=books&sprefix=alan+blinder+after+the%2Cstripbooks%2C208&sr=1-1
https://www.amazon.com/Color-Money-Black-Racial-Wealth/dp/0674237471/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2B6X35VIPGYHI&keywords=mehrsa+baradaran&qid=1572018626&s=books&sprefix=mehrsa+bar%2Cstripbooks%2C213&sr=1-2
https://www.amazon.com/Trumps-Three-Generations-Builders-President/dp/0743210794
He also joined a sex commune but nobody would have sex with him and was nicknamed "Charles GetOut".
Assassination Vacation
Apparently my job today is to pimp books I've read:
About a quarter of Assassination Vacation is about Charles Guiteau. The rest is about Lincoln and McKinley's assassinations.
Yes! I like trilogies myself, so I'd recommend Edmund's trilogy on Theodore Roosevelt, Cornelia's Inkheart, my personal favourite fictional book trilogy, and This 12 book set, just try your best and push for more reps next time
Hey OP, you might this book it seems to be exactly what you wanna know. I read it and really enjoyed it. Talk of the Devil
If you were able to see a psychologist and use psilicybin in your sessions I think it's very likely that you could deal with those issues. Too bad that it is illegal.
I am going to recommend a book that I haven't read to you now (waiting for it to arrive any day now). If you listen to the Psychedelic Salon you might have heard of Myron Stolaroff!. He interviewed a therapist who used substances like MDMA, psilocybin, LSD in his therapy sessions.
Link to the book The Secret Chief Revealed http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Chief-Revealed-Myron-Stolaroff/dp/0966001966/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1370562592&sr=8-1&keywords=Myron+Stolaroff
After reading the bookCommander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump this fake phone call act made sense..
Heads up on new book, Partners In Crime, credited with excellent documentation https://www.amazon.com/Partners-Crime-Clintons-Monetize-Personal/dp/1944229337/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1470000096&sr=1-1&keywords=partners+in+crime
My Father at 100 by Ron Reagan. I haven't read it myself yet, but it is on my list. Saw the author give a lecture on Book TV back when it came out. Also seemed like both political sides were calling it biased towards the other way.
Edit: Found you can still watch it on Book TV :http://www.booktv.org/Watch/12188/My+Father+At+100+A+Memoir.aspx
Sarah Vowell's book "Assassination Vacation" discusses this:
"Robert Todd Lincoln, a.k.a. Jinxy McDeath, was present, or nearly so, at three assassinations–his father's, Garfield's, and McKinley's."
In the audiobook version, Robert Todd Lincoln's voice is provided by our favorite tall, red-headed talk show host.
If you like history, buy this and this
All of this is historically absolutely true, but through the Bush and Obama administrations, we have seen a greater amount of presidential power consolidation.
This book says some good things about it
There's a whole chapter on the attempt to find the exact spot in the fantastic Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell. Vowell also explores how the Garfield Memorial is kinda super gay. http://www.amazon.com/Assassination-Vacation-Sarah-Vowell/dp/074326004X
So is this the next evolution of Hillary's It Take's A Village?
read it in this book
https://www.amazon.com/Commander-Cheat-Golf-Explains-Trump-ebook/dp/B07H4Z26T7
>It is not the right that is confused by these public works or terms.
Man, the world would be such a nicer place if conservatives stopped living in a delusional fantasy world. Or at least if they want to live in a delusion, could you people stop trying to drag us into it with you?
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>The answer is that to President Obama this is still not fair because he is a Marxist.
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>Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism
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> "You know, I keep forgetting, the fact that Obama is black, is why we can't call him a socialist," Limbaugh said on one of his shows. "That had slipped my mind because when I look at Obama, I don't see black. I see a socialist. I see a Marxist." -Rush Limbaugh link
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>"Now that you’ve been in the race for while, do you feel pressure to temper some of your rhetoric, like calling the Obama administration socialist?
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>No, I still believe they are socialist." link
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>Barack Obama is a Fabian socialist.
I could go on all day.
Assassination Vacations
https://www.amazon.com/Assassination-Vacation-Sarah-Vowell/dp/074326004X
"Assassination Vacation" by Sarah Vowell is essentially about Robert Lincoln's adjacency to the Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley assassinations.
Well worth the read, and the audiobook has readings by Jon Stewart, Stephen King, and Conan O'Brien as various historical figures.
I have read all three of Edmund Morris's biographies on TR, totaling over 2000 pages of Teddy Roosevelt's life. I also teach history. I doubt you can say the same. Here, do some reading before you embarrass yourself anymore.
https://www.amazon.com/Edmund-Morriss-Theodore-Roosevelt-Trilogy/dp/0812958632/ref=pd_sbs_14_t_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=RQ7AY9KEE1QXMDC17X0R
If you think TR is one of the worst presidents in US history, you have a lot to learn, and quite frankly, are delusional.
TIL, it is a trilogy
"colonel Roosevelt" is the 3rd part
http://www.amazon.com/Edmund-Morriss-Theodore-Roosevelt-Trilogy/dp/0812958632/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1292697539&sr=8-4
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0312198418?tag=duckduckgo-lm-20
While The Bully Pulpit was already mentioned for Teddy Roosevelt, I found that one a rather repetitive bore. It is not a bad book, and I still think some folks might enjoy it, but the way the information is delivered feels tedious.
For Teddy, try instead Edmund Morris's trilogy. While still dense with material, you can pick and choose what part of his life you want to look into. I actually started with the "last" book, or the one about his days after his presidency, Colonel Roosevelt and that is ultimately what got me interested in what kind of president he was.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0312198418/ref=tmm_fbs_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=
I will jump in to point out that, no, it is not fun to play golf with Donald Trump. The man is a cheater and a liar, he kicks his ball, throws it out of traps, steals kids' balls, and lies about being club champion by holding championships at his new clubs before admitting any other members.
Source: "Commander in Cheat".
https://www.amazon.com/Commander-Cheat-Golf-Explains-Trump/dp/0316528080
As someone who has caddied and played golf for most of my life, I can tell you that someone who cheats at golf has serious mental problems, a lack of humility, humor, or grasp with reality.
Hijacking to promote Corsi's book, "Partners in Crime: The Clintons' Scheme to Monetize the White House for Personal Profit"
https://www.amazon.com/Partners-Crime-Clintons-Monetize-Personal/dp/1944229337
I think he was covered in the book Talk of the Devil https://www.amazon.com/Talk-Devil-Encounters-Seven-Dictators/dp/0802714161
The guy was delusional well after the end.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250256410/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i_fmKQDb8DVKKMK
I can't believe this isn't the top comment, but if you are interested in this and the other presidential assasinations then please read Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
There's a book out right now about how Trump is at golf, and how it can serve as a metaphor for his life and/or presidency, called Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump.
The part everyone quotes is about his cheating, where according to people he's played with, against, and for (i.e. caddies and others), there has never been a single game where he doesn't cheat. Whether it's friends, "rivals", or even just playing by himself, there isn't a single game where he doesn't cheat blatantly and frequently. What inspired the author (Rick Reilly) to write the book is when Trump said he's won 18 club championships, when he couldn't corroborate with any source whatsoever that he's won even one.
The Trumps
And since I'm not as lazy as you are, I'll tell you that it is a book about Donald Trump and his family's three generations in this country. Now, in return give me real proof that Drumpf can do anything good for this country besides set up his own Hunger Games or become the next Hitler. I've done a fair amount of my own research and all I've seen is a man who has more waffles than IHOP and is a racist and bigot who is wiping his ass with the Constitution and everything it stands for.
Well, for one, she has a book out on Obama's speeches https://www.amazon.com/We-Are-Change-Seek-Speeches/dp/1632869462
Otherwise, just watch her shows. I have nothing against her and I generally agree with her points. I'm just saying, I'm biased and I can recognize when I'm being pandered to. Despite that, I still watch her on the weekends.
I haven't cracked them yet, but there are a few multi-volume biographies that get high marks (and since you say "the bigger the better..." :))
I also just had a friend send me Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton which seems like an interesting read.
None of these are explicitly reformed, so I apologize if that's what you're looking for. But these are all acclaimed reads about men with a remarkable impact on history, which is worth attention anyway in my opinion :)
Both are EXCELLENT
I actually learned this today too, in a completely unrelated manner. I just started reading Assassination Vacation
I learned it from Sarah Vowell's Assassination Vacation. McKinley, before he was shot, visited Honeymoon Bridge over the Niagara but made sure to only cross halfway so as to not go into canada.
Book recommendation: I highly recommend the biographic trilogy of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris. Trust me once you start you will not want to do anything but read until all three books are done.
First book is called The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
The Boys on the Tracks: Death, Denial, and a Mother's Crusade to Bring Her Son's Killers to Justice
>Honestly, I felt that she was trying to thread the needle between sounding like she supported populist positions while not actually supporting them.
And I thought she was doing the opposite; trying hard not to sound like she supported populist ideas while actually supporting them. I mean, she wrote the book It Takes a Village, and she was the one who was working on universal healthcare when her husband was in office.
>Unfortunately, this really wasn't enough to assuage the progressives of the party who felt that this really was their moment and felt that they had been cheated in the primary.
It was mostly young people who felt cheated because they literally can't remember when Hillary was vilified for pushing populist ideas, while the older generations and establishment of course didn't back the guy who advertised that he was a socialist because they knew that was a bad plan in the general election.
>...the President is mostly about setting policy. Even if a President cannot get his/her policy enacted, the office itself provides a powerful bully pulpit to drive national policy.
Agreed, but having knowledge of the process and realistic goals is also key.
I also agree that Trump may be good long term, but only if Dems can get behind a single candidate who is more moderate; it isn't about the enthusiasm of the base but instead about generating enthusiasm among people who didn't bother to vote before and people who care about their own job more than anything else.
Also, if Hillary had won, the Republicans would have just dug in deeper as the party of obstruction; at least now they are on display as having no unified plan and cultivating the support of deplorables.
i checked and they are full of conservative people praising the book & there are no top reviews from liberals criticizing it.
[The Cost of Our Silence: Consequences of Christians Taking the Path of Least Resistance ] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1622452712) 4.8 stars
ERADICATE: Blotting Out God in America: Understanding, Combatting, and Overcoming the Anti-Christian Agenda 4.3 stars
Big Agenda: President Trump’s Plan to Save America 4.7 stars
The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left 4.6 stars
Rediscovering Americanism: And the Tyranny of Progressivism 4.7 stars
Understanding Trump - Newt Gingrich 4.8 stars
Dangerous - Milo Yiannopoulos 4.9 stars
most liberals have more work to do than write negative reviews for tripe that can be found on any facebook comment section. see, that is the difference ; most conservatives detest and loathe liberals while most liberals want to convince conservative to let progress happen.
but sitting and stewing in your echo chamber has made you believe that liberals are evil baddies