Brian Kilmeade Books in Order

If you want inspirational sports stories: The Games Do Count → It's How You Play the Game.
If you want his American Revolution and early republic history: George Washington's Secret Six → Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates.
If you prefer battlefield campaigns and frontiers: Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans → Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers.
If you are interested in Lincoln, race and civil rights: The President and the Freedom Fighter → Teddy and Booker T..

Brian Kilmeade is a television and radio host who built a second career telling stories about American history and the power of sports. Best known as a co host of the morning show Fox & Friends, he also leads a daily national radio program and weekend primetime show. Between live broadcasts, he has written a string of nonfiction books that blend fast moving narrative with his interest in leadership, character and big turning points in the American story.

Kilmeade was born on May 7, 1964, in Massapequa, New York, and grew up on Long Island in a close knit family with strong Queens and Irish roots. Sports were a big part of his childhood, especially soccer, which his father helped nurture in the community. Those hours on local fields and in neighborhood leagues turned into his first lessons about teamwork, discipline and bouncing back after a loss.

At LIU Post, he studied communications, played soccer at the college level and started to see that he liked being around the action just as much as he liked being on the field.

After graduating with a communications degree in 1986, he went straight into broadcasting. He began as a correspondent for Channel One, a national news program that aired in schools, then moved through a series of local television and radio jobs in California, New York and Connecticut. He anchored sports shows, co hosted an all sports radio program with Hall of Famer Jim Brown, and even did play by play for some of the earliest mixed martial arts events. Along the way he spent nearly a decade doing stand up comedy, learning how to read a room and keep people engaged.

In 1997 he joined Fox News as a reporter, and within a year he was at the desk on Fox & Friends. The job grew from a morning news shift into a daily routine that mixes politics, sports, human interest stories and long form interviews. On radio, The Brian Kilmeade Show lets him stretch those conversations out across three more hours each weekday, and his weekend program One Nation with Brian Kilmeade adds a primetime forum for big picture topics.

Writing came next. In the early 2000s he turned his lifelong love of sports into books like The Games Do Count and It's How You Play the Game, which collect personal stories from athletes, executives, military leaders and entertainers. In those pages, readers hear how a coach's challenge, a painful loss or an unexpected win shaped the way these people later handled pressure, success and failure off the field.

From there he shifted his focus to American history, teaming up with coauthor Don Yaeger for narrative books such as George Washington's Secret Six, Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates, Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans and Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers. Later works like The President and the Freedom Fighter and Teddy and Booker T. look at Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington, tracing how they tried to move the country closer to its stated ideals.

He still lives in Massapequa with his wife and three children, stays close to the game by watching and coaching soccer, and spends much of his time on the road talking with viewers and readers who share his interest in sports, history and how individual choices shape the larger American story.