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has published one after leaving office, and more recent entries have earned their authors tens of millions of dollars in royalties.

Autobiographies covering the period of their presidency

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Autobiographies not covering the period of their presidency

Published diaries and papers

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External links to free-access presidential autobiographical works

Thomas Jefferson's autobiographyMartin Van Buren's autobiographyJames Buchanan's autobiographyUlysses S. Grant's autobiographyTheodore Roosevelt's autobiographyCalvin Coolidge's autobiographyHerbert Hoover's autobiography
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Autobiographies covering the period of their presidency

Autobiographies not covering the period of their presidency

Published diaries and papers

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Further reading

External links to free-access presidential autobiographical works