Beth Wooden is the senior assortment growth librarian for the Fort Vancouver Regional Libraries. E mail her at readingforfun@fvrl.org.
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The latest loss of life of former President Jimmy Carter obtained me eager about what prolific writers our presidents have been. Each chief govt since Herbert Hoover (the thirty first U.S. president) has a presidential library established in his house state. These archives home the paperwork and artifacts of every president’s administration.
Fourteen presidents have revealed books; most have written papers, essays and speeches. Jimmy Carter was some of the productive presidential authors, with over 30 books in all, together with a printed model of a Nobel Prize lecture, a ebook co-written along with his spouse, Rosalynn, and a kids’s ebook illustrated by his daughter Amy.
Nearly all of books written by presidents are memoirs and autobiographies, however to my shock there are a number of fiction books on the market. Carter’s “The Hornet’s Nest: A Novel of the Revolutionary War” (2003) is hailed as “the first work of fiction written by a president of the United States.” Described as “a sweeping saga of the American South and the War of Independence,” Carter’s novel runs virtually 500 pages.
Just one different former president has revealed fiction books: Invoice Clinton, who has co-authored three titles with bestselling writer James Patterson. Listed here are temporary summaries of these works: