About.com American History: This site, run by author Martin Kelly, provides extensive information on each of the presidents and on American history in general.

White House: The official White House Web site has biographical sketches of each of the presidents and first ladies.

American President: A comprehensive resource on the history of the presidency, created by the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.

Ackerman, Kenneth D. Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2003.

Ambrose, Stephen E. Eisenhower. New York:Touchstone, 1990.

Ammon, Harry. James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971.

Bauer, K. Jack. Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest. Baton Rouge:Louisiana State University Press, 1985.

Black, Conrad. Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom. New York: PublicAffairs, 2003.

Boller, Paul F. Presidential Anecdotes. New York:Oxford University Press, 1996.

_____.Presidential Wives: An Anecdotal History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Bourne, Peter G. Jimmy Carter: A Comprehensive Biography from Plains to Post-Presidency. New York: Scribner, 1997.

Brodsky, Alyn. Grover Cleveland: A Study in Character. New York: St. Martin's, 2000.

Bush, George. All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings. New York: Scribner, 1999.

Calhoun, Charles W., and Arthur M. Schlesinger. Benjamin Harrison. New York: Times Books, 2005.

Campbell, Colin, and Bert A. Rockman. The George W. Bush Presidency: Appraisals and Prospects. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2003.

Cannon, James. Time and Chance: Gerald Ford's Appointment with History. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998.

Clements, Kendrick A. Woodrow Wilson: World Statesman. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1999.

Clinton, Bill. My Life. New York: Knopf, 2004.

Crapol, Edward P. John Tyler: The Accidental President. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.

Dallek, Robert. An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963. New York: Little, Brown, 2003.

_____. Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Degrario, William A. The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents. New York: Barricade Books, 2001.

Donald, David H. Lincoln. New York: Touchstone, 1995.

D'Souza, Dinesh. Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader. New York: Touchstone, 1997.

Haynes, Sam W. James K. Polk and the Expansionist Impulse. White Plains, N.Y.: Longman, 2001.

Hoogenboom, Ari. Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior and President. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995.

Johnson, Paul. George Washington: The Founding Father. New York: HarperCollins, 2005.

Klein, Philip S. President James Buchanan: A Biography. Newtown, Conn.: American Political Biography Press, 1995.

Loewen, James W. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. New York: Touchstone, 1995.

McCullough, David. Truman. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.

_____. John Adams. New York: Touchstone, 2001.

Morgan, H. Wayne. William McKinley and His America. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2004.

Morris, Edmund. Theodore Rex. New York: Modern Library, 2002.

Nagel, Paul C. John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Nash, George H. The Life of Herbert Hoover, Vols. 1 and 2. New York: W. W. Norton, 1983.

Niven, John, and Katherine Speirs. Martin Van Buren: The Romantic Age of American Politics. Newtown, Conn.: American Political Biography Press, 2000.

Peterson, Merrill D. Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation: A Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.

Peterson, Norma Lois. Presidencies of William Henry Harrison and John Tyler. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1989.

Rakove, Jack. James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic. White Plains, N.Y.: Longman, 2006.

Rayback, Robert J. Millard Fillmore: Biography of a President. Newtown, Conn.: American Political Biography Press, 1998.

Reeves, Richard. President Nixon: Alone in the White House. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002.

Reeves, Thomas C. Gentleman Boss: The Life of Chester Alan Arthur. Newtown, Conn.: American Political Biography Press, 1991.

Remini, Robert V. The Life of Andrew Jackson. New York: Perennial Classics, 2001.

Russell, Francis. The Shadow of Blooming Grove: Warren G. Harding in His Times. New York:McGraw-Hill, 1968.

Severn, William. William Howard Taft, the President Who Became Chief Justice. New York: Random House, 1970.

Smith, Jean Edward. Grant. New York: Touchstone, 2001.

Sobel, Robert. Coolidge: An American Enigma. Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2000.

Trefousse, Hans L. Andrew Johnson: A Biography. New York: W. W. Norton, 1989.

Truman, Margaret. First Ladies: An Intimate Group Portrait of White House Wives. New York:Ballantine Books, 1995.

Wallner, Peter A. Franklin Pierce: New Hampshire's Favorite Son. Concord, N.H.: Plaidswede, 2004.

Wead, Doug. All the Presidents' Children: Triumph and Tragedy in the Lives of America's First Families. New York: Atria Books, 2003.

_____. The Raising of a President: The Mothers and Fathers of Our Nation's Leaders. New York:Atria Books, 2005.