What the Presidents Read
Childhood Stories and Family Favorites- Autor:innen/Herausgeber:innen:
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Zusammenfassung
Taking a generous view of reading and reading materials, the editors have collected here presidential childhood reading favorites – and those of many First Family members – into 8 groupings:
- History and Geography,
- Play – which includes reading music or learning rules for athletics,
- Animal Tales,
- Speeches and drama,
- Instructional materials that were valued,
- Periodicals subscribed to or borrowed,
- Biographies and autobiographies, and
- Narrative fiction.
The favorites are attested to in the presidents’ words or those of eyewitness reports. The second portion of each chapter contains brief and readable expert commentary about the favorite choices so that readers are able to see the appeal or the cultural context of the selections.
127 color illustrations throughout were chosen to help tell the story of the childhood culture and available resources.
The presidents’ own words, as children or youths or sometimes as fathers, are sometimes surprising, but always rich in human interest and yielding details that help to fill in the cultural expectations and beliefs that shaped the nation’s leaders.
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- Copyrightjahr
- 2025
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-5381-7782-2
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-5381-7784-6
- Verlag
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Seiten
- 523
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Acknowledgments Kein Zugriff
- Contents Kein Zugriff
- Preface by Ted Widmer Kein Zugriff
- Introduction Kein Zugriff
- Introduction Kein Zugriff
- William Henry Harrison, 9th President 1841, Whig Kein Zugriff
- Zachary Taylor, 12th President 1849–1850, Whig Kein Zugriff
- Millard Fillmore, 13th President 1850–1853, Whig Kein Zugriff
- Calvin Coolidge, 30th President 1923–1929, Republican Kein Zugriff
- Harry S. Truman, 33rd President 1945–1953, Democrat Kein Zugriff
- Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th President 1963–1969, Democrat Kein Zugriff
- William Jefferson Clinton, 42nd President 1993–2001, Democrat Kein Zugriff
- Matthew Goetz, “Young George Washington’s Literary Voyage Round the World” Kein Zugriff
- Marilynn S. Olson, “Why Fillmore Remembered Abyssinia” Kein Zugriff
- Mark W. Graham, “Charles Rollin and Universal History in America” Kein Zugriff
- Tim Utter, “Peter Parley’s Geographical Education of Children in the Mid-Nineteenth Century” Kein Zugriff
- Stephen Bertman, “Andrew Jackson: Savage Sophisticate” Kein Zugriff
- Catherine M. Parisian, “A Thirst for Knowledge” Kein Zugriff
- Eric Best, “Growing Up Near Sagamore Hill” Kein Zugriff
- Laureen Tedesco, “The Little Brown Sister: A Children’s Book Model for William Howard Taft’s Benevolent Paternalism” Kein Zugriff
- Thomas Mallon, “The Row to Zanzibar” Kein Zugriff
- Bethanee Bemis, “The White House and Mickey Mouse: Presidents and the Disney Parks” Kein Zugriff
- Introduction Kein Zugriff
- John Adams, 2nd President 1797–1801, Federalist Kein Zugriff
- Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President 1801–1809, Democratic-Republican Kein Zugriff
- Dolley Madison, First Lady 1809–1817 Kein Zugriff
- Thomas “Tad” Lincoln, White House Child 1861–1865 Kein Zugriff
- Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President 1869–1877, Republican Kein Zugriff
- Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President 1885–1889, 1893–1897, Democrat Kein Zugriff
- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President 1901–1909, Republican Kein Zugriff
- Louise Taft, Mother of William Howard Taft Kein Zugriff
- Nellie Taft, First Lady 1909–1913 Kein Zugriff
- Calvin Coolidge, 30th President 1923–1929, Republican Kein Zugriff
- Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady 1933–1945 Kein Zugriff
- Harry S. Truman, 33rd President 1945–1953, Republican Kein Zugriff
- Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady 1963–1969 Kein Zugriff
- Richard Nixon, 37th President 1969–1974, Republican Kein Zugriff
- Jimmy Carter, 39th President 1977–1981, Democrat Kein Zugriff
- Gerald R. Ford, Vice President 1973–1974, 38th President 1974–1977, Republican Kein Zugriff
- George H. W. Bush, 41st President 1989–1993, Republican Kein Zugriff
- Bill Clinton, 42nd President 1993–2001, Democrat Kein Zugriff
- James G. Leaf, “NO SISSIES ALLOWED: Qualifications for US Presidency” Kein Zugriff
- Laura Wasowicz, “Kitchen Table Politics for Children in the Hero of Tippecanoe” Kein Zugriff
- Scott Eberle, “Wrestling and Storytelling in Lincoln’s White House” Kein Zugriff
- Edward G. Lengel, “Nellie Arthur in the White House” Kein Zugriff
- Elizabeth Goodenough, “Frances Cleveland and the First White House Kindergarten” Kein Zugriff
- Peggy Ellsberg, “TR and the Icon of the Cowboy” Kein Zugriff
- Margo Taft Stever, “Searching for the Young William Howard Taft: The Tortoise and the Hare” Kein Zugriff
- Annette B. Dunlap, “Lou Henry Hoover and the Spirit of Play” Kein Zugriff
- Rebecca Schwartz, “Truman Reading Music” Kein Zugriff
- Michelle Guillion, “Jackie and Her Children Riding at Glen-Ora” Kein Zugriff
- John Woodford, “The Men Who Would Be President” Kein Zugriff
- Douglas Brinkley, “The Ebb and Flow of John F. Kennedy” Kein Zugriff
- Donald Holloway, “The Education of Gerald Ford” Kein Zugriff
- Stuart Brown, “Winning Isn’t Everything” Kein Zugriff
- James G. Leaf, “‘Finis Origines Pendent’: George W. Bush at Andover” Kein Zugriff
- Corky Siemaszko, “Obama’s High School Basketball Coaches, Teammates Remember ‘Barry’” Kein Zugriff
- Introduction Kein Zugriff
- Aesop as Political Commentary: The Bayeux Tapestry Kein Zugriff
- Aesop in American Politics: George Washington 1st President of the United States (1789–1797) Kein Zugriff
- Aesop in American Politics: Thomas Jefferson 3rd President of the United States (1801–1809) Kein Zugriff
- Aesop in American Politics: Millard Fillmore 13th President of the United States (1850–1853) Kein Zugriff
- Aesop in American Politics: Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States (1861–1865) Kein Zugriff
- Aesop in American Politics: William Howard Taft 27th President of the United States (1909–1913) Kein Zugriff
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and American Politics Kein Zugriff
- Alice on the Stage Kein Zugriff
- Alice in Political Parodies and Cartoons Kein Zugriff
- Alice in the Age of the New Deal and Beyond Kein Zugriff
- Alice, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Kein Zugriff
- John F. Kennedy, 35th President 1961–1963, Democrat Kein Zugriff
- Billy Whiskers and Women’s Travel Writing Kein Zugriff
- Seeing the World with Billy Whiskers Kein Zugriff
- A Voice of Its Time Kein Zugriff
- Nation Building: Who Lives Here? Kein Zugriff
- Nation Building: What Does the Country Look Like? Kein Zugriff
- Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Kein Zugriff
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ferdinand, and Munro Leaf Kein Zugriff
- The Aftermath of World War II: Berlin, Christmas 1946 Kein Zugriff
- Harry Truman and the Marshall Plan Kein Zugriff
- Kennedy’s People-to-People Exchange and Johnson’s War on Poverty Kein Zugriff
- Introduction Kein Zugriff
- James Monroe, 5th President 1817–1825, Democratic-Republican Kein Zugriff
- Abigail Adams, First Lady 1797–1801 and Her Son, John Quincy Adams, 6th President 1825–1829, Democratic-Republican Kein Zugriff
- John Quincy Adams, 6th President 1825–1829, Democratic-Republican Kein Zugriff
- Louisa Catherine Adams, First Lady 1825–1829 Kein Zugriff
- Martin Van Buren, 8th President 1837–1841, Democrat Kein Zugriff
- James K. Polk, 11th President 1845–1849, Democrat Kein Zugriff
- James Buchanan, 15th President 1857–1861, Democrat Kein Zugriff
- Abraham Lincoln, 16th President 1861–1865, Republican Kein Zugriff
- Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady 1861–1865 Kein Zugriff
- Andrew Johnson, 17th President 1865–1869, Democrat Kein Zugriff
- Julia Dent Grant, First Lady 1869–1877 Kein Zugriff
- Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President 1877–1881, Republican Kein Zugriff
- Chester A. Arthur, 21st President 1881–1885, Republican Kein Zugriff
- Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President 1885–1889, 1893–1897, Democrat Kein Zugriff
- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President 1901–1909, Republican Kein Zugriff
- Thomas Woodrow Wilson, 28th President 1913–1921, Democrat Kein Zugriff
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President 1933–1945, Democrat Kein Zugriff
- Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, First Lady 1961–1963 Kein Zugriff
- Donald J. Trump, 45th President 2017–2021, Republican Kein Zugriff
- Joe Biden, 46th President 2021–, Democrat Kein Zugriff
- Marilynn S. Olson, “‘A Favourite Author of Mine’: Monroe’s Note and Pleasures of Imagination” Kein Zugriff
- Eric Sterner, “Joseph Addison’s Cato: Liberty on the Stage” Kein Zugriff
- Donelle Ruwe, “School Plays and the Théâtre d’education” Kein Zugriff
- Suzanne Rahn, “‘Hail to the Chief’: The Appeal of Walter Scott” Kein Zugriff
- Leslie Stainton, “Reading Buchanan” Kein Zugriff
- Henry Meares, “Black Folks Hero: He Freed the Slaves” Kein Zugriff
- Jerry Mikorenda, “A Poem, President Arthur, and His Pupil” Kein Zugriff
- Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, “Fanny Crosby and Grover Cleveland” Kein Zugriff
- Robert T. Tally Jr., “James Fenimore Cooper and The Leatherstocking Tales” Kein Zugriff
- Brian C. Wilson, “Donald Trump and the Reverend Norman Vincent Peale’s The Power of Positive Thinking” Kein Zugriff
- Steve Wilson, “Ralph Waldo Emerson’s ‘The American Scholar’: The Thought Heard Round the World” Kein Zugriff
- Introduction Kein Zugriff
- George Washington, 1st President 1789–1797, Federalist Kein Zugriff
- John Adams, 2nd President 1797–1801, Federalist Kein Zugriff
- Abigail Adams, First Lady 1797–1801 Kein Zugriff
- John Quincy Adams, 6th President 1825–1829, Democratic-Republican and His Father, John Adams Kein Zugriff
- John Tyler, 10th President 1841–1845, Whig Kein Zugriff
- James Buchanan, 15th President 1857–1861, Democrat Kein Zugriff
- Abraham Lincoln, 16th President 1861–1865, Republican Kein Zugriff
- Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President 1869–1877, Republican Kein Zugriff
- Jesse Grant, White House Child 1869–1877 Kein Zugriff
- Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President 1885–1889, 1893–1897, Democrat Kein Zugriff
- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President 1901–1909, Republican Kein Zugriff
- Lou Henry Hoover, First Lady 1929–1933 Kein Zugriff
- Gerald R. Ford, 38th President 1974–1977, Republican Kein Zugriff
- George H. W. Bush, 41st President 1989–1993, Republican Kein Zugriff
- William Jefferson Clinton, 42nd President 1993–2001, Democrat Kein Zugriff
- Barack Obama, 44th President 2009–2017, Democrat Kein Zugriff
- Melania Trump, First Lady 2017–2021 Kein Zugriff
- Andrea Immel, “Little John Quincy Adams and the Gingerbread Hornbook” Kein Zugriff
- Margaret Mackey, “The Blue Back Speller: Primers as Totemic Objects” Kein Zugriff
- Peter A. Wallner, “Franklin Pierce’s Admission to Bowdoin College” Kein Zugriff
- Donald W. Olson, “Reading, ’Riting, and ’Rithmetic: How Presidents Learned the Third of the Three Rs” Kein Zugriff
- Elvin Holt, “Performing Uncle Remus” Kein Zugriff
- Marilynn S. Olson, “‘Boys Who Were Not So Different from Me’: Horatio Alger’s Blueprint for the Future” Kein Zugriff
- Jill Abraham Hummer, “Laura Welch Bush: Roots of the First Reader” Kein Zugriff
- Donald E. Pease, “Barack Obama’s Dr. Seuss Story” Kein Zugriff
- Introduction Kein Zugriff
- James Madison, 4th President 1809–1817, Democratic-Republican Kein Zugriff
- Franklin Pierce, 14th President 1853–1857, Democrat Kein Zugriff
- William McKinley, 25th President 1897–1901, Republican Kein Zugriff
- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President 1901–1909, Republican Kein Zugriff
- Richard M. Nixon, 37th President 1969–1974, Republican Kein Zugriff
- Jimmy Carter, 39th President 1977–1981, Democrat Kein Zugriff
- George W. Bush, 43rd President 2001–2009, Republican Kein Zugriff
- Donald J. Trump, 45th President 2017–2021, Republican Kein Zugriff
- Marilynn S. Olson, “Spectator Papers as Children’s Guide” Kein Zugriff
- Marilynn S. Olson, “The Tribune and McKinley’s Rural Ohio” Kein Zugriff
- Mark I. West, “Theodore Roosevelt’s Childhood Response to Our Young Folks” Kein Zugriff
- Stephanie L. Hawkins, “The National Geographic Magazine in the 1920s” Kein Zugriff
- Marilynn S. Olson, “Boys’ Life in the 1930s” Kein Zugriff
- Adrianne Grubic, “A Presidential Passion for Sports Illustrated” Kein Zugriff
- Introduction Kein Zugriff
- Franklin Pierce, 14th President 1853–1857, Democrat Kein Zugriff
- Abraham Lincoln, 16th President 1861–1865, Republican Kein Zugriff
- Warren G. Harding, 29th President 1921–1923, Republican Kein Zugriff
- Harry S. Truman, 33rd President 1945–1953, Democrat Kein Zugriff
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President 1953–1961, Republican Kein Zugriff
- Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President 1963–1969, Democrat Kein Zugriff
- George W. Bush, 43rd President 2001–2009, Republican Kein Zugriff
- Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, “George Washington and Slavery: Going Beyond Picture Books to Teach About Our Flawed Founders” Kein Zugriff
- Jacob and Mark Heberle, “Andrew Jackson: From Orphan of the Waxhaws to Father of a New America” Kein Zugriff
- Philip J. Deloria, “Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract” Kein Zugriff
- William C. Davis, “The Boy and the Book: Parson Weems and Abraham Lincoln” Kein Zugriff
- Mark Jonathan Harris, “The Better Angels” Kein Zugriff
- Julia L. Mickenberg, “Lefty Lincoln for Kids” Kein Zugriff
- Jan Susina, “The Curious Connections between Abraham Lincoln and Lewis Carroll” Kein Zugriff
- Omar Khan, “‘Who Are You?’ Eleanor Roosevelt Goes Rogue” Kein Zugriff
- Craig Fehrman, “Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote” Kein Zugriff
- Julie Pfeiffer, “The ‘First Lady from Plains’ Reimagines Home” Kein Zugriff
- Carol Tell Morse, “Summer Sisters First: Judy Blume and the Bush Twins” Kein Zugriff
- Andrea Immel, “The Trump Presidency in Picture Books” Kein Zugriff
- Megan Marshall, “The Mouse That Scored” Kein Zugriff
- Introduction Kein Zugriff
- John Adams, 2nd President 1797–1801, Federalist Kein Zugriff
- Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President 1801–1809, Democratic-Republican Kein Zugriff
- James A. Garfield, 20th President, Republican, March 4–September 19, 1881 Kein Zugriff
- Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President 1889–1893, Republican Kein Zugriff
- Herbert Hoover, 31st President 1929–1933, Republican Kein Zugriff
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President 1933–1945, Democrat Kein Zugriff
- Jacqueline Kennedy, First Lady 1961–1963 Kein Zugriff
- Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady 1963–1969 Kein Zugriff
- Rosalynn Carter, First Lady 1977–1981 Kein Zugriff
- Amy Lynn Carter, White House Child 1977–1981 Kein Zugriff
- Ronald Reagan, 40th President 1981–1989, Republican Kein Zugriff
- Barbara Bush, First Lady 1989–1993 Kein Zugriff
- Bill Clinton, 42nd President 1993–2001, Democrat Kein Zugriff
- Hillary Clinton, First Lady 1993–2001 Kein Zugriff
- Chelsea Victoria Clinton, White House Child 1993–2001 Kein Zugriff
- Laura Bush, First Lady 2001–2009 Kein Zugriff
- Michelle Obama, First Lady 2009–2017 Kein Zugriff
- Joe Biden, 46th President, 2021–, Democrat Kein Zugriff
- Jill Biden, First Lady 2021– Kein Zugriff
- Andrew O’Malley, “Robinson Crusoe” Kein Zugriff
- Laura Wasowicz, “Awash in an Ocean of Sea Stories: Some Historical Context” Kein Zugriff
- Mark I. West, “The Influence of Mayne Reid’s Adventure Books on Theodore Roosevelt’s Life” Kein Zugriff
- Claudia Nelson, “Morality and Fair Play: Ronald Reagan’s Childhood Reading” Kein Zugriff
- Anne K. Phillips and Gregory Eiselein, “Alcott’s Little Women and the U.S. Presidency” Kein Zugriff
- Stephen C. Meyer, “Institutional Conversion: Postwar Christianity and The Robe” Kein Zugriff
- John Blair, “A Wrinkle in Time” Kein Zugriff
- Sally E. Parry, “Cherry Ames and the Call of Duty” Kein Zugriff
- Teya Rosenberg, “The Magical and Educative Properties of P. L. Travers’s Mary Poppins” Kein Zugriff
- Afterword Kein Zugriff Seiten 497 - 500
- Index Kein Zugriff Seiten 501 - 510
- About the Editors and the Contributors Kein Zugriff Seiten 511 - 523





