JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 by Fredrik Logevall

The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store by Cait Flanders

Truman by David McCullough

The Course of Human Events by David McCullough

The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For by David McCullough