The American Presidents: Biographies of the Chief Executives from George Washington Through George Wbush

by Whitney, David C.

• ISBN13: 9780762103461
• ISBN10: 0762103469
• Edition: 9th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Summary

The American Presidency is at once the strongest and the weakest point in our democratic system and the most powerful office in the world. It has been held by forty-two men, each of whom, whether dull or flamboyant, virtuous or corrupt, humble or imperial, capable or inept, has interpreted his constitutional power and responded to the imperatives of history in his own way.

Author Biography

The late David C. Whitney was an author of American history. His books include Founders of Freedom, The American Legacy, Two Dynamic Decades, and The People of the Revolution: Colonial Spirit of '76

Table of Contents

Foreword	v
George Washington	1	(16)
John Adams	17	(9)
Thomas Jefferson	26	(13)
James Madison	39	(8)
James Monroe	47	(8)
John Quincy Adams	55	(7)
Andrew Jackson	62	(15)
Martin Van Buren	77	(7)
William Henry Harrison	84	(5)
John Tyler	89	(5)
James Knox Polk	94	(6)
Zachary Taylor	100	(6)
Millard Fillmore	106	(5)
Franklin Pierce	111	(8)
James Buchanan	119	(7)
Abraham Lincoln	126	(16)
Andrew Johnson	142	(8)
Ulysses S. Grant	150	(7)
Rutherford B. Hayes	157	(7)
James A. Garfield	164	(6)
Chester A. Arthur	170	(5)
Grover Cleveland	175	(14)
Benjamin Harrison	189	(7)
William McKinley	196	(8)
Theodore Roosevelt	204	(13)
William Howard Taft	217	(7)
Woodrow Wilson	224	(15)
Warren Gamaliel Harding	239	(11)
Calvin Coolidge	250	(8)
Herbert Clark Hoover	258	(9)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt	267	(11)
Harry S Truman	278	(13)
Dwight David Eisenhower	291	(11)
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	302	(12)
Lyndon Baines Johnson	314	(14)
Richard Milhous Nixon	328	(36)
Gerald Rudolph Ford	364	(19)
Jimmy Carter	383	(27)
Ronald Reagan	410	(23)
George Herbert Walker Bush	433	(27)
William Jefferson Clinton	460	(39)
George W. Bush	499	(12)
Key Facts About the Presidents	511	(3)
First Ladies and Wives of the Presidents	514	(3)
Vice Presidents	517	(3)
Presidential Elections	520	(5)
Cabinets and Leading Officials	525	(28)
Political Control of Congress: 1789--2003	553	(9)
Presidents of Congress: 1774 to 1789	562	(1)
The Making of the Presidency	563	(19)
Presidential Historic Sites	582	(21)
Index	603