Ex-Presidents and Smith Caronas

My interest in reading about presidents started in childhood. I recall walking to the Allenstown, N.H. library, taking a short cut through an open field on a summer day to check out a biography of George Washington. I was probably about 10. Since then, I have read biographies of more than half our presidents and own about four dozen biographies of those chief executives who most affected America’s history — Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, both Roosevelts, Lyndon Johnson and others. I have skipped Franklin Pierce — the only president from New Hampshire if one does not count Josiah Bartlett...

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