The Presidents and the Constitution : : A Living History / / ed. by Ken Gormley.
Shines new light on America's brilliant constitutional and presidential history, from George Washington to Barack Obama. In this sweepingly ambitious volume, the nation’s foremost experts on the American presidency and the U.S. Constitution join together to tell the intertwined stories of how e...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. An Unfinished Presidency
- Part I. The Founding Era
- 1. George Washington
- 2. John Adams
- 3. Thomas Jefferson
- 4. James Madison
- 5. James Monroe
- 6. John Quincy Adams
- Part II. The Age of Jackson
- 7. Andrew Jackson
- 8. Martin Van Buren
- 9. William Henry Harrison
- 10. John Tyler
- 11. James K. Polk
- Part III. The Pre–Civil War Era
- 12. Zachary Taylor
- 13. Millard Fillmore
- 14. Franklin Pierce
- 15. James Buchanan
- Part IV. Civil War and Reconstruction
- 16. Abraham Lincoln
- 17. Andrew Johnson
- 18. Ulysses S. Grant
- Part V. The Gilded Age
- 19. Rutherford B. Hayes
- 20. James A. Garfield
- 21. Chester A. Arthur
- 22. Grover Cleveland
- 23. Benjamin Harrison
- 24. Grover Cleveland
- 25. William McKinley
- Part VI. The Progressive Era
- 26. Theodore Roosevelt
- 27. William Howard Taft
- Part VII. World War I and the Great Depression
- 28. Woodrow Wilson
- 29. Warren G. Harding
- 30. Calvin Coolidge
- 31. Herbert Hoover
- Part VIII. The New Deal and World War II
- 32. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 33. Harry S. Truman
- Part IX. The Civil Rights Era
- 34. Dwight D. Eisenhower
- 35. John F. Kennedy
- 36. Lyndon B. Johnson
- Part X. The Watergate Era and Reform
- 37. Richard M. Nixon
- 38. Gerald R. Ford
- 39. Jimmy Carter
- Part XI. New Conservatives, New Democrats, and Polarization
- 40. Ronald Reagan
- 41. George H. W. Bush
- 42. William Jefferson Clinton
- Part XII. National Security Era: Post-9/ 11
- 43. George W. Bush
- 44. Barack Obama
- Conclusion: An Evolving American Presidency
- Acknowledgments
- About the Contributors
- Photo Credits
- Index