books: the boy president

books: the boy president

books:

The boy president

Abe Lincoln: The Boy Who Loved Books
Kay Winters

Scholastic, Inc., 2003

"The story of how a boy who loved to read changed the world forever." This is a captivating book, written in what seems to me to be free verse. I would say it is suitable for all elementary grades, to be read to the younger students and read by the older ones. Its emphasis lies in Abe Lincoln's childhood. He doesn't study law until page 34 out of ...

Bully Boy: The Truth About Theodore Roosevelt's Legacy

Jim Powell

Crown Forum, 2006

It's all about the consequences...
In FDR's Folly, Jim Powell relied heavily on the work of empirical economists to draw conclusions about FDR and his policies. While contrary to other historians who have largely ignored economic studies of the great depression, Powell evaluated FDR and the New Deal ...

Mr. Lincoln's Boys
Staton Rabin

Viking Juvenile, 2008

In celebration of Abraham Lincoln’s two hundredth birthday comes this breathtakingly illustrated picture book about the president and his two youngest sons. Tad and Willie Lincoln were mischievous pranksters who treated the White House as their personal playground. They tormented nearly everyone they encountered—except their doting father. Even ...

The Boys on the Tracks: Death, Denial, and a Mother's Crusade to Bring Her Son's Killers to Justice

Mara Leveritt

Thomas Dunne Books, 1999

The Boys Who Fell through the Cracks
This is an investigative report that reads like a thriller, though it is frustrating in that the corruption it exposes is never cleaned up. Any parent's worst nightmare is the loss of a child; in this case, the child was murdered and the killers were never asked to ...

West Virginia Tough Boys: Vote Buying, Fist Fighting and a President Named JFK

Keith F. Davis

Woodland Press LLC, 2003

I want to be a Tough Boy!
I am a little dismayed at the one poor review this book has received. Wow, I have heard nothing but good things about this book, and I have personally re-read it twice already. The author had to include biographic information to portray the making of a Mountain State ...

First Boy

Gary Schmidt

Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 2005

Richie's Picks: FIRST BOY
"But it's hard to stay angry while leaning against the flank of a cow. Cooper liked milking. He liked the work of the hoses and the swish of the thick blue-white milk coming through them. Most especially, he liked tending Moon and Star, who didn't care to be milked by ...

President Pennybaker (Paula Wiseman Books)

Kate Feiffer

Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, 2008

My Son Loves This Book (But I Don't)
"He told the reporter that in the Birthday Party kids get treated like it's their birthday every day of the year. They get to eat cake and ice cream and open presents every morning. They get to wear shorts in the winter and dirty clothes to fancy parties. They get to ...

The Clinton Crack-Up: The Boy President's Life After the White House

R. Emmett Tyrrell

Thomas Nelson, 2007

A Must Read
This is a must read for anyone considering putting another Clinton in the White House.

My Last Chance to Be a Boy: Theodore Roosevelt's South American Expedition of 1913-1914

Joseph R. Ornig

Louisiana State University Press, 1998

Brilliant portrayal of TR as man, not legend.
TR's 1913-1914 expedition down the River of Doubt (subsequently renamed Rio Teodoro in his honor, and later Rio Roosevelt) is an astonishing piece of history - one often refered to in passing by other TR biographers, but not often fully explored, as it here. Author ...

Abe Lincoln : The Boy Who Loved Books

Kay Winters

Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 2003

A Fresh Perspective on Abe Lincoln
ABE LINCOLN: THE BOY WHO LOVED BOOKS is a delightful biography and a welcome addition to the body of children's books about our 16th President! With colorful, lyrical language, author Kay Winters tells the story of young Abe's boyhood from an important perspective, ...

The Boys' Life of Theodore Roosevelt, 2008

The life of Theodore Roosevelt is one well worth studying by any American boy who wishes to make something of himself and mount high on the ladder of success. The twenty-sixth President of our country is a fine type of the true American of to-day, full of vim and vigor, quick to comprehend, and equally quick to act, not afraid to defend his ...

Soup for the President

Robert Newton Peck

Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1991

Come on over and read this book
Have you ever heard of a book with a very close election? Well you've come to the right place.This book is very funny and its about a boy named Soup and his best friend Robert. Soup is running for president against Norma Jean Bissel. Shes a girl in the school that is ...

President's Daughter, The

Barbara Chase-Riboud

Crown, 1994

This book is a historical gem.
Truly, this writer is a historian. The size of the book had me somewhat concerned prior to reading. However, I am glad I took the plunge. Wow! I just finished this book yesterday, and much to my chagrin, I discovered how much history I did not know. Even though ...

Boys Who Became Prophets

Lynda Cory Robison

Deseret Book Co, 2000

Full of Incite
This is a marvelous book which gives deep incites into the character of the boys who ultimately became prophets in this dispensation. Excellent for those who love to read about the "human side" of great men of the Church.

Boy Clinton: A Political Biography

R. Emmett Tyrrell

Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1996

A Scathing, Snide attack on the Clintons
This is one of the weirdest books I've read in a long time. Written by R. Emmett Tyrrell of American Spectator fame, this has to be one of the most scathing attacks on Bill and Hillary Clinton ever written. I gave it five stars because it kept me in open mouthed awe ...