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The Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents: Revised and Updated

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The Presidents' Inaugurals are worth reading. There are few similarities between them. Some recount history. Some are long, some are short. Some are eloquent while others use plain language. Some give specific policy proposals while others focus on the big picture. It is interesting to see what the Presidents wanted the country to focus on. It is also interesting to compare their predictions to what actually occurred. It is interesting that Warren G. Harding and Jimmy Carter both quoted from the same Old Testament passage in the book of Micah.

'The Inaugural Address of the Preidents' is one of the few nonficton books I've read. I read it not wanting to be one-sided regarding books(most books I have read are fiction), and trying to get a clearer image on the presidents I have not known well. This book, besides the inaugural addresses, has a short writing about the president in each election. The inaugural address may be just an address, but it also showed the differing view of values of each presidents, while sketching the hitory of america, if briefly. I'm not an american, and so the vocabulary was a little hard for me, and it is of course not what you would call a fun book but all in all, it was a thumbs up.