Author in Chief

The Presidents as Writers from Washington to Trump

Michael B. Costanzo (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

246 Seiten

2019
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-7570-1 (ISBN)

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Serves as a history of works - including autobiographies, diaries, memoirs, political manifestos, speeches and others - authored by US presidents and published prior to, during or after their terms. The book tells how writing was easy for some and harder for others. It is the story of literary comebacks, bestsellers, false starts and failures.

With the publication of his Personal Memoirs in 1885, Ulysses S. Grant established what is today known as the presidential memoir. Every U.S. president since Benjamin Harrison has written one and many have turned to other forms of writing, as well.

This book covers the history of works--including autobiographies, diaries, political manifestos, speeches, fiction and poetry--authored by U.S. presidents and published prior to, during or after their terms. The writing was easy for some, harder for others, with varying success, from literary comebacks and bestsellers to false starts and failures.

Michael B. Costanzo is a contributor to The Numismatist and lives in Columbia, Tennessee.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Diaries and Letters

George Washington

John Adams

Thomas Jefferson

James Madison

James Monroe

John Quincy Adams

Three Generals:

deleteAndrew Jackson,

deleteWilliam Henry Harrison

deleteand Zachary Taylor

Martin Van Buren

Two Accidentals: John Tyler and Millard Fillmore

James K. Polk

Franklin Pierce

James Buchanan

Abraham Lincoln

Andrew Johnson

Ulysses S. Grant

Rutherford B. Hayes

James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur

Benjamin Harrison

Grover Cleveland

William McKinley

Theodore Roosevelt

William Howard Taft

Woodrow Wilson

Warren G. Harding

Calvin Coolidge

Herbert Hoover

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Harry S. Truman

Dwight D. Eisenhower

John F. Kennedy

Lyndon B. Johnson

Richard M. Nixon

Gerald R. Ford

Jimmy Carter

Ronald Reagan

George H.W. Bush

Bill Clinton

George W. Bush

Barack Obama

Donald J. Trump

A Brief History of Publishing the Presidents: Booksellers, Copyrights, Royalties, Ghostwriters and Literary Agents

First Editions, Limited Editions and Other Collectibles

Chronological List of Publications Authored by Presidents

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.04.2019
Zusatzinfo	14 photos, appendices, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	336 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4766-7570-8 / 1476675708
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-7570-1 / 9781476675701
Zustand	Neuware