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