Affairs of State Reading List

“My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail & John Adams”

Edited by Margaret Hogan


“Dolley and James Madison: An Unlikely Love Story that Saved America”

By Rodney K. Smith


“Bess and Harry: An American Love Story”

By Jhan Robbins


“Jimmy & Rosalyn Carter: The Georgia Years, 1924-1974”

By E. Stanley Godbold, Jr.

“First Lady From Plains”

By Rosalynn Carter


“Rachel Donelson Jackson: The First Lady Who Never Was”

By Betty Boles Ellison

“A Being So Gentle: The Frontier Love Story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson”

By Patricia Brady


“The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President”

By Edward F. O’Keefe

“If a Poem Could Live and Breathe. A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt’s First Love”

By Mary Calvi


 “Beautiful Things: A Memoir”

By Hunter Biden

“Promises to Keep”

By Joe Biden


 “Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan & William Rufus King”

By Thomas J Balcerski


“A Secret Life: The Lies and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland”

By Charles Lachman

“Frank: The Story of Frances Folsom Cleveland, America’s Youngest First Lady”

By Annette Dunlap


“The President’s Daughter

By Nan Britton

“The Harding Affair:  Love & Espionage During the Great War”

By James David Robenalt


 “The Gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR, and the Untold Story of the Partnership that defined a Presidency”

By Kathryn Smith

“Franklin & Lucy: Mrs. Rutherford & the Other Remarkable Women in Roosevelt’s Life”

By Joseph E. Persico


“Closest Companion: The Unknown Story of the Intimate Partnership Between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley”

By Geoffrey C. Ward


“Mafia Moll: The Judith Exner Story”

By Sam Sloan

Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy & Its Aftermath

By Mimi Alford