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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 …
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 …
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 …
William McKinley
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 …
Calvin Coolidge
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 …
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 …
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, …
Richard M. Nixon
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 …