Editor's note: This is the seventeenth entry in the writer's year-long project to read one book about each of the U.S. Presidents by Election Day 2016. You can also follow Marcus' progress at the @44in52 Twitter account and with this 44 in 52 Spreadsheet.
I really have a way of getting ahead of myself.
Case in point: Just two books ago, I implied that James Buchanan was the worst president ever. That was before I read about Andrew Johnson.
Case in point number two: In my last entry, on Abraham Lincoln, I waxed lyrical about change. But the change Lincoln brought was a gentle breeze compared to Hurricane Andrew Johnson, who had all the grace of a drunken spider monkey in taking over the White House after Lincoln's assassination. Read more...
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