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Our country's Presidents : all you need to know about the presidents, from George Washington to Barack Obama
Edition
4th trade ed.
Publication Information
Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2013.
Physical Description
223 p. ill. (chiefly col.), map ; 29 cm.
Summary
Complete with period paintings and photographs, a comprehensive guide provides profiles, biographies, administration highlights, and political and personal accomplishments of every president in the history of the United States.
Notes
"Featuring the 2012 election"--Spine.
Contents
- Presidency and how it grew
- George Washington
- John Adams
- White house: the building and its history
- Thomas Jefferson
- James Madison
- Powers of the president: the executive branch in government
- James Monroe
- John Quincy Adams
- White House traditions : Easter eggs, state dinners, and presidential portraits
- Andrew Jackson
- From sea to shining sea
- Martin Van Buren
- William Henry Harrison
- John Tyler
- The vice presidents: leaders just a heartbeat away
- James K. Polk
- We want to Vote! Battles for the ballot
- Zachary Taylor
- Millard Fillmore
- Pathways to the Presidency : campaign strategies and party politics
- Franklin Pierce
- James Buchanan
- New birth of freedom
- Abraham Lincoln
- Andrew Johnson
- U.S. political parties : the two-party system
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Rutherford B. Hayes
- Presidential landmarks: from log cabins to libraries
- James A. Garfield
- Chester A. Arthur
- Grover Cleveland
- Presidential facts and comparisons: a look at the stats
- Benjamin Harrison
- America takes center stage
- William McKinley
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Kids in the White House: at home in the spotlight
- William Howard Taft
- Presidents and the Supreme Court : a legacy that alsts
- Woodrow Wilson
- Presidents at war: serving as the commander in chief
- Warren G. Harding
- Calvin Coolidge Dear Mr. Presidents : swapping letters with the Chief Executive
- Herbert Hoover
- Seeking stability in the atomic age
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- First ladies: partners, hostesses, and crusaders
- Harry S. Truman
- Pollsters and polling : sizing up public opnion
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- John F. Kennedy
- Presidents who died in office: the mysterious twenty-year curse
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Richard M. Nixon
- Gerald R. Ford
- Electoral college: gatekeepers of the presidency
- Jimmy Carter
- Footprints on the global frontier
- Ronald Reagan
- George Bush
- In the president's shadow: security, the media, and presidential perks
- William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton
- George W. Bush
- Election 2012 : victory in a divided nation
- Barack Obama
- Former presidents: serving as elder statesmen
- Chart of presidential election results.