📚 Presidents

The office and the people in it: biographies, rankings, and the memoirs that try to settle the arguments.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject presidents in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The works of Washington Irving	Washington Irving	1800	89
	Abraham Lincoln	Carl Sandburg	1926	74
	Life of George Washington	Washington Irving	1850	68
	Long Walk to Freedom	Nelson Mandela	1994	62
	Abraham Lincoln	Lord Charnwood	1916	60
	Life and works of Abraham Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln	1907	33
	The Presidents of the United States of America	Frank Burt Freidel	1964	23
	The Path To Power	Robert A. Caro	1982	21
	A Promised Land	Barack Obama	2020	20
	The autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah	Kwame Nkrumah	1957	18
	Keeping Faith	Jimmy Carter	1982	16
	Facts about the Presidents	Joseph Nathan Kane	1959	15
	The first ladies	Margaret Brown Klapthor	1975	15
	The man without a face	Masha Gessen	2012	15
	Eleanor Roosevelt	Blanche Wiesen Cook	1992	14
	George Washington	Henry Cabot Lodge	1889	13
	Mornings on Horseback	David McCullough	1981	13
	John Adams	David McCullough	2001	13
	Grant	Ron Chernow	2017	13
	Washington	Ron Chernow	2010	12
	Theodore Roosevelt	Charles G. Washburn	1916	11
	This is my story	Eleanor Roosevelt	1937	11
	The complete book of U.S. presidents	William A. DeGregorio	1984	11
	George Washington	Ingri Parin D'Aulaire	1936	10
	Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), Tổng-thống thứ 16 của Hoa-Kỳ	United States Information Service (Saigon, Vietnam)	1959	10
	At ease	Dwight D. Eisenhower	1967	10
	A. Lincoln, man of the people	United States Information Service	1959	9
	The First Ladies cook book	Margaret Brown Klapthor	1965	9
	Lives of the Presidents (Lives of the)	Kathleen Krull	1998	9
	Wings of Fire	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	1999	9

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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