All Presidents Are Above AverageIn biographies for children, presidents are great even before they become president.

PRINTDISCUSSE-MAILRSSRECOMMEND...SINGLE PAGE

Facebook Digg RedditStumbleUponCLOSE

Adults, accustomed to the harsh truths about our presidents revealed in newspaper accounts and best-selling biographies, can no longer perceive the glory of George W. Bush's Vietnam military service or admire the "marriage" of Bill and Hillary Clinton. But children labor under no such disillusions. So long as they stick to the thin books with the fat type, students may safely study our illustrious leaders, protected from harmful references to Watergate, Iran-Contra, or a certain president's taste for threesomes. Children's biographies of presidents show our leaders as role models even as youngsters. For Presidents Day, we've culled some quotes from presidential biographies written for children—and then compared the quotes to see how much more inspiring these versions are than their adult counterparts.

Click here to launch a slide show featuring children's books about the presidents.

Become a fan of Slate on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.

Facebook Digg RedditStumbleUponCLOSE

Commenting Lobby
Brought to you by

SPONSORED CONTENT

Also in Slate

Obama's Cowardly Refusal To Stand up for Gay Rights, Immigration, and Religious Freedom
Why in the World Do NRA Members Think Elena Kagan Is Coming After Their Guns?
Slate's TV Club on the Latest Episode of Mad Men
Why Did Marc Hauser's Morality Experiments Go So Terribly Wrong?

• Small State, Big Stakes
  Can the Tea Party win in Delaware the way it won in Alaska?
  David Weigel | Sept. 7, 2010
• Obama Unleashed
  What will the president say to get Democrats excited for the coming campaign?
  John Dickerson | Sept. 2, 2010
• Still Life With Enemy Combatant
  An exclusive look at the artwork of Guantanamo Bay prisoners.
  Tim Fitzsimons | Sept. 2, 2010
• Search for more Politics articles
• Subscribe to the Politics RSS feed
• View our complete Politics archive