it was JFK that made the James Bond novels a mega seller beginning in 1957 when he mentioned in a magazine interview that his favorite book was From Russia With Love.
@@lawrencelewis2592 yeah, those darn "hippies" started Apple, Nike, Ben & Jerry's, and Twitter and took over Hollywood, Brooklyn and San Francisco. Shame on them!
I'm surprised Clinton is the only one that listed Marcus Aurelius as his favorite book. I've read most of the founding fathers cited it as a major influence upon their approach to statecraft.
@@reidboggs4344Its aurelius not augustus. However Tiberius, Augustus' heir on Roman throne, had his own Epstein island on Capri, so Romans and modern America do share some similarities.
@@krovavykrasny I am aware of the difference. I meant Augustus. He was the better Emperor. One of the greatest statesmen in human history in my opinion.
The book, "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History" was written by Alfred Thayer Mahan, not Alfred Thayer. It is the inspiration for the US Navy's fleets around the world.
It also inspired Teddy’s first bestselling book, “The Naval War of 1812.” He wrote it as an undergrad at Harvard, and refuted many long-prevailing assumptions about the war by using evidence he found in old war reports. And he actually did his own work, unlike JFK did with “Profiles” (Ted Sorensen).
Where each book came from: England: George Washington (Cato), John Adams (Paradise Lost), James Madison (John Locke), James Monroe (The Pleasures of Imagination), Andrew Jackson (The Vicar of Wakefield), Zachary Taylor (The History of England), Ulysses Grant (Edward Bulwer-Lytton), James Garfield (Robinson Crusoe), Grover Cleveland (Commentaries on the Laws of England), Benjamin Harrison (Ivanhoe), Woodrow Wilson (The English Constitution), Herbert Hoover (David Copperfield), Franklin Roosevelt (The Jungle Book), John Kennedy (James Bond) Spain: Thomas Jefferson (Don Quixote) Germany: John Quincy Adams (Oberon) Bookless: Martin Van Buren, William Harrison, Chester Arthur, Warren Harding, Harry Truman Scotland: John Tyler (The Wealth of Nations) International: Millard Fillmore (Dictionary), John Buchanan (Law Books), Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter, George W Bush (The Bible), William Taft (Political Books) United States: Franklin Pierce (The House of the Seven Gables), Andrew Johnson (The American Speaker), Rutherford Hayes (Daniel Webster), William McKinley (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow), Theodore Roosevelt (The Influence of Sea Power Upon History), Lyndon Johnson (The Other America), Gerald Ford (Horatio Alger), Ronald Reagan (The Hunt for Red October), Barack Obama (Self Reliance), Donald Trump (The Art of the Deal) Italy: Calvin Coolidge (The Complete Works of Cicero), Bill Clinton (Meditation) Russia: Richard Nixon, George HW Bush (War and Peace) Ireland: Joe Biden (Ulysses)
JFK was a voracious reader of history and non-fiction. He also read multiple newspapers on a daily basis. I've never read/heard anything about James Bond novels, but I guess it could be true. JFK also read The Other America (here stated to be LBJ's favorite book). JFK read The Other America and then had copies issued to his entire administration and told them to read it (including Johnson).
While JFK did like the James Bond book, it was not his favorite. That was Barbara Tuchman’s A Distant Mirror, which examines the parallels between the 14th and 20th centuries. People have forgotten that JFK originally expected to become a historian and only went into politics because his older brother (who their father groomed for a political career) was killed in WWII.
Nixon was a great reader though. He liked biographies too. Great figures from history, Napoleon, that sort of thing. I don't what is happening to me but the more I read about Nixon the more I rate him. He was very, very flawed but there were some very good things too.
Jefferson liked that book but he definitely loved Locke's 2 Treatises more and its funny that you have that under Madison. Jefferson never stated a favorite book but he made it very clear that Locke was his favorite thinker and specifically the 2 treatises were the core of Jefferson's ideology and beliefs, his most passionate beliefs
My favorite JFK quote is what he said at the Nobel Laureates Dinner: “I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
How do we know which each of their favorite books were? Did they ever state that these were their favorite books? Only a few of them have I read; the Bible and Ivanhoe, and I listened to the Jungle Book and the hunt for Red October on tape.
It's also ironic because JFK hated the deep intelligence agencies and Bond was MI6. And there's a lot of evidence supporting the theory the CIA assassinating him. Even if they didn't though, JFK was definitely at war with the CIA, The American version of MI6
When Kennedy told a reporter he liked “Melbourne” by David Cecile, the reporter said that told him everything he needed to know. Cecile’s book details the sexual escapades of Lord Melbourne, as well as Melbourne’s contemporaries.
Okay. So we got 4 genuine Christians, two people who probably liked good action films, tyrants (good and bad.), people who would probably also love Middle Earth, two self absorbed people and an a man who can't walk up the stairs right but at could read at one point.
@DrakeSmith-tn6ij (1) he’s losing his mind. (2) he chose idiots to run the government, simply because they belong to a certain demographic. (3) gas prices and inflation are up since Trump left. (4) Afghanistan (5) going with number four, he makes us look weak in the eyes of the world.
You Americans make lists of a lot of things about your presidents. It gets funny sometimes, the impression you give that you venerate these guys as saints. In my country, at most we see presidents as corrupt politicians.
Also, you are right, the only presidents we have had in the past ~100 years that weren’t corrupt politicians were Teddy Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Ronald Reagan, and Donald Trump. All republicans :)
@@GenericRU-vidGuy You GOP voters are so delusional, holy shit. Yeah, Reagan and Trump were totally not corrupt, that's why they spent their entire presidencies making policy for the rich and mighty. 😂😂😂
I’ve never seen them as anything more than puppets. Most are horrible people. Cheating on your wife and children is not acceptable by any man, allowed by a weak woman or not.
@@bobdole7451 Seriously, it IS great but hear it read as an audiobook by a talented actor and it all begins to come alive and you hear the beauty of the language. Perhaps that is cheating, but it opened the book for me.
Lol why you got lockes 2 treatises under madison rather than Jefferson. Madison definitely read them and agreed with them but Jefferson paraphrased them in the declaration and said Locke was one of the 3 greatest men whoever lived. Jefferson was Locke's biggest fan boy. Sure you didn't get those backwards? Haha
This is no good. These aren't even real books. "Novel of Horatio Alger." Which one of his many novels? Under Theodore Roosevelt, the author's name is "Alfred Thayer Mahan," not "Alfred Thayer." And which of James Bond's books, by Ian Fleming. Or is it 'Ian Fleming'? (Why put it in quotes?) As for Harrington's THE OTHER AMERICA, it influenced LBJ's War on Poverty, but I doubt it was LBJ's favorite book. And Wilson liked the crime fiction of Melville Davisson Post. Why not put him down--in quotes, of course, for no good reason.
I could have sworn Trump's favorite book was either Mein Kampf or Dr Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham. Hmm... it makes sense that his favorite book would be his own that he didn't actually write himself.
@@kg0173 it is you who are doomed if you believe in the orange man trying to profit off of the Bible and sell shoes to pay his legal fees. Everything he does is for himself and no one else!
Drumpfth is four years younger than Biden? *preference goes from 99.7% Biden to 97.7% Biden* Only thing Drumpfth has going for him over Biden is that Drumpfth seems to be in better health.
nixon took us off the gold standard and reagan removed laws from the federal register someone in this conversation is a crackpot but it isnt reagan, hw bush ran the cia
That's what they want you to believe. To be fair, Red October is very good as well as Red Storm Rising. Very applicable to today. Will agree on Nixon though, he was actually quite intellectual.
@@Indylimburg nixon took us off the gold standard so being an " intellectual" checks out he knew dick about economics or foreign policy but he was a "man of culture" whatever the fuck that means.
