List of autobiographies by presidents of the United States

Many presidents of the United States have written autobiographies about their presidencies and/or (some periods of) their life before their time in office. Some 19th-century U.S. presidents who wrote autobiographies are James Buchanan and Ulysses S. Grant, though Grant's autobiography is about his time as general during the American Civil War and not about his presidency. Presidential memoir has proved to be a lasting and popular genre — every president who survived to the end of their term from Calvin Coolidge to Barack Obama has published one after leaving office, and more recent entries have earned their authors tens of millions of dollars in royalties. In addition to ensuring financial security, presidential autobiographies are also written to defend or rehabilitate presidential legacies.

List of autobiographies Covering the period of their presidency Note: Only publication information for the first edition is given.

Title President Publisher Date ISBN Notes U.S. Government Printing Office 1920 Posthumously compiled and edited from Van Buren's manuscript materials by John C. Fitzpatrick. Volume IIMr. Buchanan's Administration on the Eve of the Rebellion D. Appleton & Company 1866 LinkTheodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography Macmillan 1913 Link Cosmopolitan Book Corporation. Previously published serially in the periodical Cosmopolitan 1929 Link Macmillan 1951 Published in three volumes: Volume 1: Years of Adventure 1874-1920; Volume 2: The Cabinet and the Presidency 1920-1933; Volume 3: The Great Depression 1929-1941Memoirs: Year of Decisions Doubleday 1955 Memoirs: Years of Trial and Hope 1956 Colorado Associated University Press 1980 Posthumously compiled and edited from Truman's manuscript materials by historian Robert FerrellWhite House Years: Mandate for Change Doubleday 1963 White House Years: Waging Peace 1965 At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends 1969 Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1971 RN - The Memoirs of Richard Nixon Grosset & Dunlap 1978 In the Arena: A Memoir of Victory, Defeat, and Renewal Simon & Schuster 1990 A Time to Heal Harper & Row 1979 Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President Bantam Books 1982 A Full Life: Reflections at 90 Simon & Schuster 2015 An American Life 1990 A World Transformed Knopf Publishing Group 1998 My Life 2004 Decision Points Crown Publishers 2010 A Promised Land 2020 Promise Me, AmericaJoe BidenLittle, Brown and Company2026Scheduled release for November 17, 2026.

Not covering the period of their presidency Title President Publisher Date ISBN 1821 Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant Charles L. Webster & Company 1885–86 Charles Scribner's Sons 1899 Mr. Citizen Independence Press 1960 Crusade in Europe Doubleday 1948 Six Crises 1962 Where's the Rest of Me? Duell, Sloan and Pearce 1965 Why Not the Best?: The First Fifty Years Broadman Press 1975 Turning Point: A Candidate, a State, and a Nation Come of Age Three Rivers Press 1993 An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood Simon & Schuster 2001 Looking Forward Doubleday 1987 CitizenBill ClintonAlfred A. Knopf2024A Charge to Keep William Morrow and Company 1999 Dreams from My Father Times Books 1995 Crown/Three Rivers Press 2006 The Art of the Deal Random House 1987 Trump: Surviving at the Top 1990 Trump: The Art of the Comeback Times Books 1997 Promises to Keep Random House 2007 Promise Me, Dad Flatiron Books 2017

Published diaries and papers Title President Editor Publisher Date ISBN 1928 1910 1929 Michigan State University Press 1967 W W Norton & Co Inc 1976 Prelude to Leadership: The European Diary of John F. Kennedy: Summer 1945 Regnery Publishing 1995 The Letters of John F. Kennedy Bloomsbury Press 2013 Richard Nixon: Speeches, Writings, Documents Princeton University Press 2010 White House Diary Farrar, Straus and Giroux HarperCollins 2007 All the Best Scribner 1999

See also List of American political memoirs List of memoirs by first ladies of the United States

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List of autobiographies by presidents of the United States

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