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Feb 10

Presidents' Day Reads

Posted to Book Notes on February 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM by Genesis Gaule

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Presidents' Day 

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Presidents' Day, officially Washington's Birthday and a day to honor past U.S. presidents, is a holiday in the United States celebrated on the third Monday of February.  


His Excellency: George Washington

by Joseph Ellis 

BIO - Political - Presidents - WASHINGTON 

To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and lyric prose that have made him one of the premier historians of the Revolutionary era. Training his lens on a figure who sometimes seems as remote as his effigy on Mount Rushmore, Ellis assesses George Washington as a military and political leader and a man whose “statue-like solidity” concealed volcanic energies and emotions. 


Abe Lincoln at last!

by Mary Pope Osborne 

Junior OSBORNE Merlin v.19

Magic Tree House: Merlin Missions // Are you ready for a presidential adventure? Jack and Annie are! They are whisked back to Washington, D.C., in 1861. Jack can’t wait to meet Abraham Lincoln himself! But the new president is too busy to see them, as he is desperately trying to save a nation in crisis. It’s a race against time as Jack and Annie try to aid a president and a troubled nation! 


Tragedy in Dallas

by Steven Otfinoski 

J NF HISTORY - USA - 20th Century - OTFINOSKI 

In an immersive, exciting narrative nonfiction format, this powerful book follows a selection of people who experienced the events surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. 


The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

by Edmund Morris 

BIO - Political - Presidents - ROOSEVELT THEODORE   

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt begins at the apex of his international prestige. That was on New Year’s Day, 1907, when TR, who had just won the Nobel Peace Prize, threw open the doors of the White House to the American people and shook 8,150 hands. One visitor remarked afterward, “You go to the White House, you shake hands with Roosevelt and hear him talk, and then you go home to wring the personality out of your clothes.” 


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