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Presidents and their No. 1 best-sellers

Presidents and their books that reached No. 1 on The New York Times best-seller list, the dates they reached the top and the numbers of weeks they were No. 1 (not necessarily consecutive weeks).

_Dwight D. Eisenhower, “Crusade in Europe” (Doubleday, 1948), Dec. 26, 1948 (11)

_John F. Kennedy, “Profiles in Courage” (Harper, 1956), Dec. 29, 1963 (12)

_Jimmy Carter, “An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood” (Simon & Schuster, 2001), Jan. 28, 2001 (5)

_Bill Clinton, “My Life” (Knopf, 2004), July 11, 2004 (6)

_Jimmy Carter, “Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis” (Simon & Schuster, 2005), Nov. 20, 2005 (4)

_Barack Obama, “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream” (Crown, 2006), Nov. 12, 2006 (16)

_Ronald Reagan, “The Reagan Diaries” (HarperCollins, 2007), June 24, 2007 (2)

_Bill Clinton, “Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World” (Knopf, 2007), Sept. 23, 2007 (1)

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