Offers an overview of the life and career of each of America's presidents, from George Washington to George W. Bush, highlighting the important events of their administrations, while tracing the evolution of the American presidency.

Includes index. Includes index.

George Washington -- John Adams -- Thomas Jefferson -- James Madison -- James Monroe -- John Quincy Adams -- Andrew Jackson -- Martin Van Buren -- William Henry Harrison -- John Tyler -- James Knox Polk -- Zachary Taylor -- Millard Fillmore -- Franklin Pierce -- James Buchanan -- Abraham Lincoln -- Andrew Johnson -- Ulysses Simpson Grant -- Rutherford Bichard Hayes -- James Abram Garfield -- Chester Alan Arthur -- Grover Cleveland -- Benjamin Harrison -- William McKinley -- Theodore Roosevelt -- William Howard Taft -- Woodrow Wilson -- Warren Gamaliel Harding -- Calvin Coolidge -- Herbert Hoover -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Harry S. Truman -- Dwight David Eisenhower -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy -- Lyndon Baines Johnson -- Richard Milhous Nixon -- Gerald Rudolph Ford -- James Earl (Jimmy) Carter -- Ronald Wilson Reagan -- George H W Bush -- William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton -- George Walker Bush.