Today is a federal holiday in the United States where we celebrate our presidents. It was originally meant to celebrate our first president, George Washington, and then later our sixteenth president, Abraham Lincoln, was added to it. Now it's pretty much just for presidents in general. It isn't a big holiday and I don't think anyone actually "celebrates" it (I mean, mostly federal employees get the day off) but it is acknowledged.
For a long time I've wanted to learn about the presidents of my country. Mostly the early ones that I know nearly nothing about, but pretty much all of them to some degree. I've chosen a book that I'd like to read for each of the first forty US presidents, skipping the last six because I don't think enough time has passed for them to be judged accurately. I'd like to know more about the men who were the so-called "leaders of the free world", especially the earliest ones who led this country before it became the shit show that it has in my lifetime.
