#6995, aired 2015-01-30 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $200: "Those Who Love" by Irving Stone is a biographical novel of this president & his wife Abigail John Adams |
#6995, aired 2015-01-30 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $400: "Theodore Rex" begins with Roosevelt's journey to take the oath after this man's assassination (William) McKinley |
#6995, aired 2015-01-30 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $600: Bruce Catton's this man "and the American Military Tradition" highlights his years as a soldier & president (Ulysses S.) Grant |
#6995, aired 2015-01-30 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $1000: A book about this 13th chief executive is subtitled "The Unbelievable Life of a Forgotten President" Millard Fillmore |
#6995, aired 2015-01-30 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $1,200 (Daily Double): Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the JFK administration is called this many "Days" A Thousand |
#5991, aired 2010-10-04 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $400: Carl Sandburg wrote 6 volumes on this president; the first 2 made up "The Prairie Years" Lincoln |
#5991, aired 2010-10-04 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $800: "The River of Doubt" tells of this president's jungle adventure & trip up the Amazon after he left office Theodore Roosevelt |
#5991, aired 2010-10-04 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $1600: Books about him include "One Man Alone" & "Arrogance of Power" Richard Nixon |
#5991, aired 2010-10-04 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $2000: Jon Meacham's 2008 bestseller "American Lion" is a portrait of this president during his White House years Andrew Jackson |
#5991, aired 2010-10-04 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $2,500 (Daily Double): He's the subject of 2003's "An Unfinished Life" John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
#5454, aired 2008-05-01 | ALL ABOUT PRESIDENTS $200: The shop at Monticello sells coffee mugs adorned with his quotation "I cannot live without books" Jefferson |
#4454, aired 2004-01-08 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $400: "Plain Speaking" (Harry S.) Truman |
#4454, aired 2004-01-08 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $800: "Old Tippecanoe" William Henry Harrison |
#4454, aired 2004-01-08 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $1200: "The Last Best Hope of Earth" Abraham Lincoln |
#4454, aired 2004-01-08 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $1600: "One Man Alone" Richard Nixon |
#4454, aired 2004-01-08 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $2000: "Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest" Zachary Taylor |
#4064, aired 2002-04-11 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $200: "T.R.: The Last Romantic" Teddy Roosevelt |
#4064, aired 2002-04-11 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $400: "A Thousand Days" JFK |
#4064, aired 2002-04-11 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $800: "The Final Days" (1976) Richard Nixon |
#4064, aired 2002-04-11 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $1,000 (Daily Double): "Lone Star Rising" Lyndon Johnson |
#4064, aired 2002-04-11 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $1000: "The Final Days" (2001) Bill Clinton |
#3755, aired 2000-12-22 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $100: "Dutch" Ronald Reagan |
#3755, aired 2000-12-22 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $200: "The Man From Plains" Jimmy Carter |
#3755, aired 2000-12-22 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $300: "The Prairie Years" & "The War Years" Abraham Lincoln |
#3755, aired 2000-12-22 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $400: "Breach of Faith" Richard Nixon |
#3755, aired 2000-12-22 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $500: "The Quiet President" Calvin Coolidge |
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