The American presidents / edited by Melvin I. Urofsky.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. George Washington / Dorothy Twohig -- 2. John Adams / Alan V. Briceland -- 3. Thomas Jefferson / Andrew Burstein -- 4. James Madison / F. Thornton Miller -- 5. James Monroe / Daniel Preston -- 6. John Quincy Adams / Greg Russell -- 7. Andrew Jackson / Russell L. Riley -- 8. Martin Van Buren / David J. Bodenhamer -- 9. William Henry Harrison / Leonard L. Richards -- 10. John Tyler / Leonard L. Richards -- 11. James Knox Polk / Wayne Cutler -- 12. Zachary Taylor / Paul Finkelman -- 13. Millard Fillmore / Paul Finkelman -- 14. Franklin Pierce / Melvin I. Urofsky -- 15. James Buchanan / Paul Finkelman -- 16. Abraham Lincoln / Richard J. Ellis -- 17. Andrew Johnson / Edgar A. Toppin -- 18. Ulysses Simpson Grant / Edgar A. Toppin -- 19. Rutherford Birchard Hayes / Ari Hoogenboom -- 20. James Abram Garfield / R. Hal Williams -- 21. Chester Alan Arthur / R. Hal Williams -- 22. Stephen Grover Cleveland / Robert M. Goldman --

23. Benjamin Harrison / Lewis L. Gould -- 24. Stephen Grover Cleveland / Robert M. Goldman -- 25. William McKinley / Lewis L. Gould -- 26. Theodore Roosevelt / Jonathan Lurie -- 27. William Howard Taft / David W. Levy -- 28. Thomas Woodrow Wilson / John Milton Cooper, Jr. -- 29. Warren Gamaliel Harding / Robert F. Martin -- 30. John Calvin Coolidge / John W. Johnson -- 31. Herbert Clark Hoover / Paul W. Glad -- 32. Franklin Delano Roosevelt / Sidney M. Milkis -- 33. Harry S. Truman / Alonzo L. Hamby -- 34. Dwight David Eisenhower / Nancy Beck Young -- 35. John Fitzgerald Kennedy / Barbara A. Perry -- 36. Lyndon Baines Johnson / Steven F. Lawson -- 37. Richard Milhous Nixon / Joan Hoff -- 38. Gerald Rudolph Ford / William C. Berman -- 39. James Earl (Jimmy) Carter, Jr. / William E. Leuchtenburg -- 40. Ronald Wilson Reagan / Richard M. Pious -- 41. George Herbert Walker Bush / Herbert S. Parmet --

42. William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton / Robert D. Holsworth -- App. A. Presidents and Their Cabinets -- App. B. Vice-Presidents of the United States -- App. C. First Ladies of the United States -- App. D. Presidential Libraries and Web Sites.

"The American Presidents is a collection of articles that analyze and evaluate the presidential careers of the men who have occupied the office since its inception in 1789. In this volume the leading presidential historians in the United States offer insights into what makes a president great, mediocre, or - in the case of most of them - something in between."--BOOK JACKET.