And he would include insights not only from those books but from media contemporary to those books.Īnd he would described how campaigns were run and how elections evolved. So Fehrman decided that his book would not only talk about the books written by presidents, but it also would talk about the context surrounding those books. It’s important to appreciate printing technology over the years, he suggests, and how books have been marketed from campaign to campaign. To grasp the value people put on books, you need to know how relatively expensive a book might be from era to era. Like, for example, to appreciate early presidents’ literary ambitions, it’s important to understand how people viewed authors in the 18 th century (arrogant show-offs). Just focusing on the books would leave out a lot of factors affecting those books. He realized that the presidential books themselves aren’t the whole story.
Pretty simple, right? Just make a list of all of those books, read them and then tell people about what you’ve read.īut something happened as Fehrman researched his book. It would be a book about the books that presidents write. About 10 years ago, journalist and historian Craig Fehrman got an idea for a book.
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