I think the next presidential biography I read is Meacham on Poppy Bush. To this day, I think his 1990 stands up on any short list of the greatest single years of a President. 1990 saw passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, the Oil Pollution Act, the budget deal that kicked of the deficit reduction of the 1990s, plus organizing the Gulf War 1 coalition. I think the ADA was the greatest civil rights legislation after LBJ. However, that budget deal would have been even better had it not been for the rise of Newt, who made his name trying to scuttle it and forcing Poppy (and Alan Simpson) to roll back some of the terms of the bigger deal.