目录
1 George Washington 1789~1797 12
America’s Founding Father Who Laid the Foundation of Democracy
2 John Adams 1797~1801 18
Man of Self-sacrifice Who Put Country before Ambition
3 Thomas Jefferson 1801~1809 24
Author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of
Virginia for Religious Freedom and Father of the University of Virginia
4 James Madison 1809~1817 30
Father of the Constitution that Established Separation of Powers
and Checks and Balances
5 James Monroe 1817~1825 36
Defender of the New World from European Interference
6 John Quincy Adams 1825~1829 42
Intellectual Leader with Top Educational Background
7 Andrew Jackson 1829~1837 48
Pioneer of the Era of Mass Democracy
8 Martin Van Buren 1837~1841 54
First Career Politician to Become President
9 William Henry Harrison 1841 60
First ‘Image Politician’
10 John Tyler 1841~1845 66
First Vice President to Ascend to the Presidency via Succession
11 James Knox Polk 1845~1849 72
Fierce Leader of the Era of Territorial Expansion
12 Zachary Taylor 1849~1850 78
Career Soldier Who Went Straight to the White House
13 Millard Fillmore 1850~1853 84
From Tailor to the White House
14 Franklin Pierce 1853~1857 90
Northern Traitor, Southern Sympathizer
15 James Buchanan 1857~1861 96
Another Sacrificial Lamb of the North-South Conflict
16 Abraham Lincoln 1861~1865 102
Hero, Saint and Martyr: A Giant in U.S. History
17 Andrew Johnson 1865~1869 108
First President to be Impeached by Congress
18 Ulysses Simpson Grant 1869~1877 114
Politically Inept War Hero
19 Rutherford Birchard Hayes 1877~1881 120
Morality Politician Out of Touch with Reality
20 James Abram Garfield 1881 126
Corrupt Politician Assassinated while Fighting Corruption
21 Chester Alan Arthur 1881~1885 132
Defender of Presidential Dignity
22&24 Grover Cleveland 1885~1889, 1893~1897 138
Foe of Organized Labor
23 Benjamin Harrison 1889~1893 144
Gifted Public Speaker, Not So Gifted President
25 William McKinley 1897~1901 150
Architect of American Imperialism
26 Theodore Roosevelt 1901~1909 156
The Trustbuster
27 William Howard Taft 1909~1913 162
Overweight President Overshadowed by His Predecessor
28 Woodrow Wilson 1913~1921 168
Messenger of World Peace, the American Way
29 Warren Gamaliel Harding 1921~1923 174
Ordinary Leader during Ordinary Times
30 Calvin Coolidge 1923~1929 180
Laissez-fairist Who Narrowly Escaped the Great Depression
31 Herbert Clark Hoover 1929~1933 186
Competent Leader Swamped by the Great Depression
32 Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1933~1945 192
Creator of the New Deal
33 Harry S. Truman 1945~1953 198
Little Big Man Who Took America to Center Stage
34 Dwight David Eisenhower 1953~1961 204
Preserver of World Peace amid the Intensifying Cold War
35 John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1961~1963 210
The Camelot Myth: Image More than Achievements
36 Lyndon Baines Johnson 1963~1969 216
Man of Contradictions: Leader of the Great Society, Commander of the Dirty War
37 Richard Milhous Nixon 1969~1974 222
Diplomatic Genius Overshadowed by Watergate
38 Gerald Rudolph Ford 1974~1977 228
Restorer of Ethics to the Presidency
39 James Earl (Jimmy) Carter 1977~1981 234
Unsuccessful Morality Politician, Reborn as the Apostle of Peace
40 Ronald Wilson Reagan 1981~1989 240
Man Contributing to the Peaceful Ending of the Cold War
41 George Herbert Walker Bush 1989~1993 246
Pioneer of New World Order
42 William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton 1993~2001 252
Leader of Times of Unprecedented Economic Prosperity
43 George Walker Bush 2001~2009 258
Self-righteous Warrior against Terror
44 Barack Hussein Obama 2009~ 264
First African-American President
Index 索引 271
Vocabulary 词汇表 280