William McKinley: The 25th President, 1897-1901 (American Presidents)

from Big_Bang_Gorilla

The author states up front that his intent is to persuade you that McKinley needs to come up a grade or two in the rankings of presidents. He makes a good case, and I didn't need much convincing anyway, but his statement of his case lands one in the depths of Hagiography Hell; the eulogy book tha...

from cvanhasselt

As part of my ongoing quest to read a book about every U.S. President, I picked up this volume. Having read a few books and numerous articles by Kevin Phillips, and a number of books in this series, I expected more than I found. Schlesinger's series offers single-volume biographies of all the Pre...

from everfresh1

It is one of the weakest biographies I ever read and definitely the worst work from 'The American Presidents Series'. It's a combination of being very boring, not giving you enough relevant information and at the same time inserting some fancy observations that could be interesting in different s...