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The president who served the shortest term--just a single month--but whose victorious election campaign rewrote the rules for candidates seeking America's highest officeWilliam …

The presidency of the American military hero-turned-politician is reexamined without the distortions of 1950s nostalgia to reveal a deeply flawed administration beset by …

The genial but troubled New Englander whose single-minded partisan loyalties inflamed the nation's simmering battle over slavery Charming and handsome, Franklin Pierce of New …

Catapulted into national politics by his heroic campaigns to feed Europe during and after World War I, Herbert Hoover - an engineer by training - exemplified the economic optimism …

The complex man at the center of America's most self-destructive presidency In this provocative and revelatory assessment of the only president ever forced out of office, the …

A thorough analysis of America's fifth president looks at the military and political accomplishments of James Monroe, describing his service during the Revolutionary War; his …

The towering figure who remade American politics the champion of the ordinary citizen and the scourge of entrenched privilege The Founding Fathers espoused a republican government, …

The "accidental" president whose innate decency and steady hand restored the presidency after its greatest crisisWhen Gerald R. Ford entered the White House in August 1974, he …

The austere president who presided over the Roaring Twenties and whose conservatism masked an innovative approach to national leadership He was known as "Silent Cal." Buttoned up …

An incisive portrait of America's twentieth president describes the life and political career of James A. Garfield, his success in post-Civil War America culminating in his 1880 …

Describes the life and times of unlikely chief executive Chester Alan Arthur, nominated for vice president in 1880, despite never having run for office, his election alongside …