The American President: Detailed Biographies, Historical Timelines, from George Washington to Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
The most thorough, authoritative, and up-to-date single-volume reference to the presidency in print.

Historian Kathryn Moore presents a riveting narrative of each president's personal and political experiences in and out of office, along with illuminating facts and statistics about each administration, fascinating timelines of national and world events, astonishing trivia, and much more. These details are woven together to present a complex and nuanced portrait of the American presidency, from the nation's infancy to today. Fully updated to include a chronology of events from 45th President Donald J. Trump’s first term, and results of the 2020 election.
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The American President: Detailed Biographies, Historical Timelines, from George Washington to Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
The most thorough, authoritative, and up-to-date single-volume reference to the presidency in print.

Historian Kathryn Moore presents a riveting narrative of each president's personal and political experiences in and out of office, along with illuminating facts and statistics about each administration, fascinating timelines of national and world events, astonishing trivia, and much more. These details are woven together to present a complex and nuanced portrait of the American presidency, from the nation's infancy to today. Fully updated to include a chronology of events from 45th President Donald J. Trump’s first term, and results of the 2020 election.
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The American President: Detailed Biographies, Historical Timelines, from George Washington to Joseph R. Biden, Jr.

The American President: Detailed Biographies, Historical Timelines, from George Washington to Joseph R. Biden, Jr.

by Kathryn Moore
The American President: Detailed Biographies, Historical Timelines, from George Washington to Joseph R. Biden, Jr.

The American President: Detailed Biographies, Historical Timelines, from George Washington to Joseph R. Biden, Jr.

by Kathryn Moore

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The most thorough, authoritative, and up-to-date single-volume reference to the presidency in print.

Historian Kathryn Moore presents a riveting narrative of each president's personal and political experiences in and out of office, along with illuminating facts and statistics about each administration, fascinating timelines of national and world events, astonishing trivia, and much more. These details are woven together to present a complex and nuanced portrait of the American presidency, from the nation's infancy to today. Fully updated to include a chronology of events from 45th President Donald J. Trump’s first term, and results of the 2020 election.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781454943174
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
Publication date: 05/04/2021
Edition description: Third Edition, Revised
Pages: 752
Product dimensions: 7.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author


In addition to The American President, Kathryn Moore is the co-author of Dear Harry...Truman’s Mailroom, 1945-1953: The Truman Administration Through Correspondence with "Everyday Americans" and Eyewitness D-Day: Firsthand Accounts from the Landing at Normandy to the Liberation of Paris. She has written articles for American HeritageAmerican History, and numerous daily newspapers such as The Washington TimesKansas City Star, and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Moore was formerly a historical interpreter at Colonial Williamsburg and taught American History in Missouri schools for 30 years.

Table of Contents

Introduction viii

George Washington 2

John Adams 20

Thomas Jefferson 30

James Madison 44

James Monroe 58

John Quincy Adams 70

Andrew Jackson 82

Martin Van Buren 98

William Henry Harrison 108

John Tyler 114

James K. Polk 122

Zachary Taylor 134

Millard Fillmore 142

Franklin Pierce 154

James Buchanan 166

Abraham Lincoln 176

Andrew Johnson 196

Ulysses S. Grant 210

Rutherford B. Hayes 226

James A. Garfield 238

Chester A. Arthur 246

Grover Cleveland 256

Benjamin Harrison 266

William McKinley 274

Theodore Roosevelt 284

William H. Taft 304

Woodrow Wilson 318

Warren G. Harding 332

Calvin Coolidge 344

Herbert Hoover 360

Franklin D. Roosevelt 372

Harry S. Truman 394

Dwight D. Eisenhower 414

John F. Kennedy 436

Lyndon B. Johnson 460

Richard M. Nixon 480

Gerald R. Ford 504

Jimmy Carter 522

Ronald Reagan 542

George H.W. Bush 564

William J. Clinton 588

George W. Bush 614

Barack H. Obama 638

Donald J. Trump 676

Joseph R. Biden, Jr 710

Index 730

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