"Adapted by permission from 'Complete American presidents sourcebook, volumes 1-5'"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Presents biographical information on the American presidents, from George Washington to Barack Obama, providing excerpts of their speeches and an analysis of their term in office.

George Washington -- John Adams -- Thomas Jefferson -- James Madison -- James Monroe -- John Quincy Adams -- Andrew Jackson -- Martin Van Buren -- William Henry Harrison -- John Tyler -- James K. Polk -- Zachary Taylor -- Millard Fillmore -- Franklin Pierce -- James Buchanan -- Abraham Lincoln -- Andrew Johnson -- Ulysses S. Grant -- Rutherford B. Hayes -- James A. Garfield -- Chester A. Arthur -- Grover Cleveland -- Benjamin Harrison -- William McKinley -- Theodore Roosevelt -- William Howard Taft -- Woodrow Wilson -- Warren G. Harding -- Calvin Coolidge -- Herbert Hoover -- Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Harry S. Truman -- Dwight D. Eisenhower -- John F. Kennedy -- Lyndon B. Johnson -- Richard M. Nixon -- Gerald R. Ford -- Jimmy Carter -- Ronald Reagan -- George H.W. Bush -- Bill Clinton -- George W. Bush -- Barack Obama.