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Franklin Pierce
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 …
Dwight D Eisenhower
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 …
William Henry Harrison
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 …
Gerald R. Ford
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 …
William McKinley
Bill Clinton: The American Presidents Series: The 42nd President, 1993-2001
The president of larger-than-life ambitions and appetites whose term defined America at the close of the twentieth century Bill Clinton: a president of contradictions. He was a …
Chester Alan Arthur
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 …
Ronald Reagan: The 40th President, 1981-1989
The conservative icon who reshaped American politics and laid the groundwork for the end of the Cold WarIn the second half of the twentieth century, no American president defined …
Millard Fillmore
The oddly named president whose shortsightedness and stubbornness fractured the nation and sowed the seeds of civil warIn the summer of 1850, America was at a terrible crossroads. …
Andrew Jackson
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, …
Herbert Hoover
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 …