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Heather Rogers

Years ago, I made a half-hearted commitment to read at least one book about every U.S. president and it morphed into a full-blown obsession. The more I learn, the more I want to know. Visit my bibliography or follow along as I doodle my way through history.

Washington: A Life (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution
The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
John Adams
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
James Madison: The American Presidents Series: The 4th President, 1809-1817
The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness
The Remarkable Education of John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times
Martin Van Buren: The American Presidents Series: The 8th President, 1837-1841
William Henry Harrison: The American Presidents Series: The 9th President, 1841
John Tyler, the Accidental President (With a New Foreword by the Author)
Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight
The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
The First Lady of World War II: Eleanor Roosevelt's Daring Journey to the Frontlines and Back
Presidential Grave Hunter: One Kid's Quest to Visit the Tombs of Every President and Vice President
America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History
Unfamiliar Fishes
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House
The President Is Dead!: The Extraordinary Stories of Presidential Deaths, Final Days, Burials, and Beyond (Updated Edition)
Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies
The Order of the Furies: 1795: A Novel
The Widow Spy
Mad Honey: A GMA Book Club Pick
The Little Paris Bookshop
Long After We Are Gone
Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight
West with Giraffes
Embassy Wife
The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power
Blue Skies
All the Water in the World
Everyone Brave Is Forgiven
Maame: A Today Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick
Becoming Madam Secretary
Honestly, She Doesn't Live Here Anymore
The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi
The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America
Susanna's Midnight Ride: The Girl Who Won the Revolutionary War
Sunrise on the Reaping (a Hunger Games Novel)
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking about
The Assassination of Ambrose Bierce: A Love Story
The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt
Shark Heart: A Love Story
The Woman They Could Not Silence: The Shocking Story of a Woman Who Dared to Fight Back
Demon Copperhead
The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
Silent Spring (Anniversary) Mad Honey: A GMA Book Club Pick The Little Paris Bookshop
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Overlap

Winterset Hollow
Lessons in Chemistry
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
The Women
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
Carnegie's Maid
The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn
Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives
The Three-Body Problem
11/22/63
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
The Vanishing Half: A GMA Book Club Pick (a Novel)
The Portable Veblen
Booth
Ben & Me: In Search of a Founder's Formula for a Long and Useful Life
The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
The Memory Palace: True Short Stories of the Past
The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Hot Time in the Old Town: The Great Heat Wave of 1896 and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt
Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic
Democracy in One Book or Less: How It Works, Why It Doesn't, and Why Fixing It Is Easier Than You Think
These Truths: A History of the United States
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
Alexandra Petri's Us History: Important American Documents (I Made Up)
The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn
The Deadline: Essays
Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight
The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill
Kissinger: A Biography (Reissue)
First Ladies: An Intimate Group Portrait of White House Wives
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Carnegie's Maid
Everyone Brave Is Forgiven
Becoming Madam Secretary
Booth
A Gentleman in Moscow
All the Light We Cannot See
The Red Tent - 20th Anniversary Edition
The Century Trilogy Trade Paperback Boxed Set: Fall of Giants; Winter of the World; Edge of Eternity
Mad Honey: A GMA Book Club Pick
All the Water in the World
Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Booth
America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal
The Kite Runner
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
11/22/63
Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life: A Memoir
1491 (Second Edition): New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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