Presidents and Reading Resolutions on the Point

This morning on The Point … “As we approach the 200th birthday of President Abraham Lincoln and come off an historic Presidential election there is no shortage of books on U.S. Presidents of the past and present.” Join Mindy Todd, Melanie Lauwers and myself for a discussion of books about Presidents, and maybe even a few thoughts about Reading Resolutions. Do you have a reading plan for 2009? Give us a call between 9:30 and 10:00 this morning at 866-999-4626 or e-mail us at : thepoint@wgbh.org. You can listen in on WCAI.

So here are the Presidential books mentioned on The Point today:

Jill’s Books

What Do We Do Now? : a workbook for the president-elect by Stephen Hess

The Presidential Book of Lists : from most to least, elected to rejected, worst to cursed : fascinating facts about our chief executives by Ian Randal Strock

Stealing Lincoln’s Body by Thomas J. Craughwell

Abraham Lincoln : great American historians on our sixteenth president by Brian Lamb and Susan Swain, editors

First Ladies by Margaret Truman

Ladies of Liberty : the women who shaped our nation by Cokie Roberts

Our Lincoln : new perspectives on Lincoln and his world edited by Eric Foner (a C-Span book)

Dear Mr. President : letters to the Oval Office from the files of the National Archives

The Defining Moment : FDR’s hundred days and the triumph of hope by Jonathan Alter (mentioned by Obama on 60 Minutes)

FDR : the first hundred days by Anthony J. Badger

Grace for President by Kelly DiPucchio ; pictures to LeUyen Pham

Melanie’s Books

Yes, We Can: 365 Ways to Make America a Better Place by Paula Munier

Mrs. Lincoln: A Life by Catherine Clinton

Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer by Fred Kaplan

Failures of the Presidents: From the Whiskey Rebellion and War of 1812 to the Bay of Pigs and War in Iraq by Thomas J. Craughwell

The Look-It-Up Book of Presidents by Wyatt Blassingame

Who’s Haunting the White House? by Jeff Belanger

What book are YOU reading about the Presidents?