My summer reading list
At least the first of which I'll read while on vacation next week:
And, finally, whenever I can wrest this from my father's hands (after giving it to him for Father's Day):
The last is an anomaly for me, to be sure, but I find it fascinating that only four presidents other than Reagan were regular diarists -- George Washington, John Quincy Adams, James K. Polk, and Rutherford B. Hayes. Reagan was the first president in 100 years to keep a diary, all the more odd because before becoming president he had never done so, having thought "of himself as a man of celluloid, not of paper" (from David Shribman's review in The Boston Globe).
And, finally, whenever I can wrest this from my father's hands (after giving it to him for Father's Day):
The last is an anomaly for me, to be sure, but I find it fascinating that only four presidents other than Reagan were regular diarists -- George Washington, John Quincy Adams, James K. Polk, and Rutherford B. Hayes. Reagan was the first president in 100 years to keep a diary, all the more odd because before becoming president he had never done so, having thought "of himself as a man of celluloid, not of paper" (from David Shribman's review in The Boston Globe).