Six Brave Presidents

This was a book that I picked up at the library sale last summer. I found a bunch of Kennedy books for a quarter and picked them up. I left them in a bag and forgot all about them. I decided to try one after work today, and I am done with it already. The [...]

The Audacity of Hope

Yesterday I had lots of downtime when I was at the NCAA Tournament. I took a book to pass the time. What I didn’t expect was what that would do to me today. I had made up my mind yesterday that I would not go to South Bend to see the Clinton’s. I finished this [...]

From Hope to Higher Ground

I really enjoyed this book by Mike Huckabee. I decided that it was an election year, and I would try and make an informed choice and read some of the candidates books. I have previously read McCain’s book Faith of My Fathers about his early years. The book really made me appreciate what he went [...]

Team of Rivals

Finally! I have been reading this book on and off since last April. I really enjoyed the book, but it was just a lot all at once for me. I have been having trouble the last few years keeping my attention span on a book for any length of time. This one was over 750 [...]

Profiles in Courage

I did not feel well today so I had an excellent chance to finish this book by President Kennedy. The book was written while Kennedy was laid up in 1954 and 1955. He looks into the acts of eight former members of the Senate. He shows how personal courage helped shaped this country. Most of [...]

Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis

This was the third book by Jimmy Carter that I have read this year. I found it very cheap at the used book store in good condition, and couldn’t pass it up. It is just under 300 pages, and has the easy style that I have come to know from President Carter. He describes the [...]

Gerald R. Ford

After the events that played out at the beginning of the year I have been looking for a book on the late President. I have been to President Ford’s Library in Grand Rapids several times, and was even there as he was lying in state. Several days later I went back to his library to [...]

John F. Kennedy on Leadership

This book is also subtitled the lessons and legacy of a president. That really sums up what John A. Barnes had in mind when he wrote this book. He took examples (good and bad) from John F. Kennedy’s life and showed how they can be used in the business world today. The book is fairly [...]

When Character Was King

When I bought Sharing Good Times from Barnesandnoble.com I also purchased Peggy Noonan’s book When Character Was King. This book cost quite a bit more than Sharing Good Times. It was $2.68. This book is a brief look into the life of President Reagan. This book is not as in depth as a lot of [...]

An Hour Before Daylight

An Hour Before Daylight is a memoir by President Jimmy Carter on his childhood growing up in Plains, Georgia. I started reading this book about a week before I made my trip to Florida, and was in the process of reading it when I visited the town and surrounding towns that he discusses in the [...]