The highest calling: conversations on the American Presidency

Preface

Introduction

Douglas Bradburn on George Washington

Gordon Wood on John Adam and Thomas Jefferson

Annette Gordon-Reed on Thomas Jefferson

Ted Widmer on Abraham Lincoln

Ron Chernow on Ulysses S. Grant

Candice Millard on James Garfield

A. Scott Berg on Woodrow Wilson

Amity Schlaes on Calvin Coolidge

Jonathan Darman on Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Jeffrey Frank on Harry S. Truman

Susan Eisenhower on Dwight D. Eisenhower

Fredrik Logevall on John F. Kennedy

Evan Thomas on Richard M. Nixon

Richard Norton Smith on Gerald R. Ford

Kai Bird on Jimmy Carter

Timothy J. Naftali on George H.W. Bush

President William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton

President George W. Bush

Peter Baker on Barack Obama

President Donald J. Trump

Maggie Haberman on Donald J. Trump

President Joseph R. Biden Jr.

Franklin Foer on Joseph R. Biden Jr.

Conclusion

Postscript

Ackowledgments

Index.