section_path: Post-presidency/Writing
section_name: Writing
paragraph_text: Writing
  
  Since the publication of Ulysses S. Grant 's Personal Memoirs in 1885, most presidents, including every president who survived to the end of their term from Calvin Coolidge to Barack Obama, has written at least one autobiography. These autobiographies serve two purposes: to ensure the First Family's financial security (Clinton made over $30 million dollars from writing two books), but also to defend or rehabilitate presidential legacies.