Eminent Lives Audiobook by Michael Korda, Paul Johnson, Christopher Hitchens

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Title: Eminent Lives
Subtitle: The Presidents Collection
Author: Michael Korda, Paul Johnson, Christopher Hitchens
Narrator: Sam Tsoutsouvas
Format: Unabridged
Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-03-06
Publisher: HarperAudio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 174 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Political Figures

Publisher's Summary:
George Washington: The Founding Father
Celebrated journalist and historian Paul Johnson paints a vivid portrait of George Washington as a young entrepreneur, masterly commander-in-chief, patient Constitution maker, and wise president.
Thomas Jefferson: Author of America
Internationally renowned writer and political commentator Christopher Hitchens explores the life of Thomas Jefferson within the context of America's evolution, bringing him to life as both a man of his time and as a visionary who could see beyond it.
Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero
Legendary editor and best-selling author Michael Korda provides a shrewd but sympathetic portrait of Ulysses S. Grant's successes and failures, both military and political, as he guided America through a crucial juncture in its history.

Members Reviews:
Great history
This is another great listen for anyone interested in presidental history. Each review is not too long but you feel you still get a great deal of history about each man.

3 Books, 3 Authors, 3 Reviews and 2, 4, 3 Stars
George Washington by Paul Johnson (2 Stars **)
"Washington remains a remote and mysterious figure. He puzzled those who knew and worked with him, and who often disagreed violently about his merits and abilities. He puzzles us. No man's mind is so hard to enter and dwell within."
Paul Johnson, George Washington
Paul Johnson's micro-biography of George Washington is one of the first in HarperCollins Eminent Lives series of biographies "by distinguished authors on canonical figures." I first picked this book up with Christopher Hitchens' Eminent Lives biography of Thomas Jefferson. So, essentially I made my way to Mt Vernon because it was on the way to Monticello.
All in all the biography was a very good, very basic biography. I can only say (recognizing what it is, and the limits a book on Washington will face, from the beginning) I was only really seriously disappointed twice. Once when Johnson lectured about how Washington would have felt about the 1st amendment, and for a couple pages the book devolved into a polemic of how X interpretation would have "angered Washington". The second part was when again, later he argues that "an America without religion as the strongest voluntary source of morality was to him an impossibility" and goes on to soft peddle the idea that immigrants were tolerated by and enlightened Washington, but he adds "but new arrivals had to recognize that they were joining a community under God - or Providence -- ... and the paramount mode of worship of this God was Christian." Here Paul Johnson has fully dropped any pretense of being an historian, and has completely abandoned his introductory statement about the difficulty of entering and dwelling in Washington's mysterious mind. It is here Johnson shows up as a public intellectual with an agenda to indelicately push. I felt a bit like I had fallen into a G.K. Chesterton biography of Washington, but without all the charming puns and paradoxes.
It is natural for those on the left and the right, for those of faith or those without faith, to want to adopt the image and the history of the founding fathers and to use their myths and histories together to support a current position or agenda (whether religious or political) or to argue against a current morality.