Introduction : An unfinished presidency / Ken Gormley
George Washington / Richard J. Ellis
John Adams / Louis Fisher
Thomas Jefferson / Cliff Sloan, Louis Fisher, and Moshe Spinowitz
James Madison / Ralph Ketcham
John Quincy Adams / Jonathan L. Entin
Part II. The Age of Jackson
Andrew Jackson / Mark A. Graber
Martin Van Buren / Michael J. Gerhardt
William Henry Harrison / David Marks Shribman
John Tyler / Robert J. Spitzer
James K. Polk / Frank J. Williams
Part III. The pre-Civil War era
Zachary Taylor / Paul Finkelman
Millard Fillmore / Joseph F. Rishel
Franklin Pierce / Paul Finkelman
James Buchanan / Thomas A. Horrocks
Part IV. Civil War and Reconstruction
Abraham Lincoln / William D. Pederson
Andrew Johnson / Michael Les Benedict
Ulysses S. Grant / John F. Marszalek
Rutherford B. Hayes / Michael A. Ross
James A. Garfield / Thomas C. Sutton
Chester A. Arthur / Thomas C. Sutton
Grover Cleveland, first term : 1884-1888 / Donald Grier Stephenson Jr.
Benjamin Harrison / Allan B. Spetter
Grover Cleveland, second term: 1892-1896 / Donald Grier Stephenson Jr.
William McKinley / Thomas C. Sutton
Part VI. The Progressive Era
Theodore Roosevelt / William D. Bader
William Howard Taft / Francine Sanders Romero
Part VII. World War I and the Great Depression
Woodrow Wilson / Saladin M. Ambar
Warren G. Harding / James D. Robenalt
Calvin Coolidge / John W. Johnson and Dale E.P. Yurs
Herbert Hoover / John Q. Barrett
Part VIII. The New Deal and World War II
Franklin Delano Roosevelt / William D. Pederson
Harry S. Truman / James N. Giglio
Part IX. The Civil Rights Era
Dwight D. Eisenhower / Richard V. Damms
John F. Kennedy / Barbara A. Perry
Lyndon B. Johnson / John L. Bullion
Part X. The Watergate Era and reform
Richard M. Nixon / Stanley Kutler
Gerald R. Ford / Jeffrey Crouch
Jimmy Carter / Scott Kaufman
Part XI. New conservatives, new Democrats, and polarization
Ronald Reagan / Kenneth W. Starr
George H.W. Bush / Lori Cox Han
William Jefferson Clinton / Ken Gormley
Part XII. National security era: post-9/11
George W. Bush / Benjamin A. Kleinerman
Barack Obama / Michael J. Gerhardt
Conclusion : An evolving American presidency / Ken Gormley.