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Author:

Bausum, Ann.

Title:

Our country's presidents / Ann Bausum ; with a foreword by President George W. Bush.

Edition:

Rev. and expanded ed.

Publisher:

National Geographic Society,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

207 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Subject:

Presidents--United States--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
United States--History--Juvenile literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-206) and index. "Completely revised & expanded featuring the 2004 election."--Cover.

Contents:

Chart of presidential election results. George Washington -- John Adams -- White house: the building and its history -- Thomas Jefferson -- James Madison -- Powers of the president: the executive branch in government -- James Monroe -- John Quincy Adams -- Andrew Jackson -- From sea to shining sea -- Martin Van Buren -- William Henry Harrison -- John Tyler -- The vice presidents: leaders just a heartbeat away -- James K. Polk -- Presidential campaigns: a blend of party politics and hard work -- Zachary Taylor -- Millard Fillmore -- Franklin Pierce -- James Buchanan -- New birth of freedom -- Abraham Lincoln -- Andrew Johnson -- U.S. political parties : the two-party system -- Ulysses S. Grant -- Rutherford B. Hayes -- Presidential landmarks: from log cabins to libraries -- James A. Garfield -- Chester A. Arthur -- Grover Cleveland -- Presidential facts and comparisons: a look at the stats -- Benjamin Harrison -- America takes center stage -- William McKinley -- Theodore Roosevelt -- Kids in the White House: at home in the spotlight -- William Howard Taft -- Woodrow Wilson -- Presidents at war: serving as the commander in chief -- Warren G. Harding -- Calvin Coolidge -- Herbert Hoover -- Seeking stability in the atomic age -- Franklin D. Roosevelt -- First ladies: partners, hostesses, and crusaders -- Harry S. Trumen -- Dwight D. Eisenhower -- John F. Kennedy -- Presidents who died in office: the mysterious twenty-year curse -- Lyndon B. Johnson -- Richard M. Nixon -- Gerald R. Ford -- Electoral college: gatekeepers of the presidency -- Jimmy Carter -- Footprints on the global frontier -- Ronald Reagan -- George Bush -- In the president's shadow: security, the media, and presidential perks -- William Jefferson Clinton -- Election day: landslides, upsets, and contested results -- George W. Bush -- Former presidents: serving as elder statesmen -- Chart of presidential election results.

ISBN:

0792293290
9780792293293
9780792293293 (trade ed.)
0792293290 (trade ed.)

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