My list of presidential biographies to read

Deciding to read 43 books about 44 presidents is a tough enough commitment, but then you actually have to figure out which books to read. Some are a must -- David McCullough's "John Adams" or Doris Kearns Goodwin's Lincoln epic "Team of Rivals." But do you really want to read hundreds of pages about Benjamin Harrison? If not, the American Presidents Series, first begun by Arthur M. Schlesinger, is a solid fallback option that offers short (often fewer than 200 pages) primers on almost every comm...