Starting off : George Washington
Federalist succession : John Adams
Republican takeover : Jefferson's revolution
Madison's wartime re-election
Monroe : another Virginia victory
Monroe's quiet re-election
John Quincy Adams and the "corrupt bargain"
Jackson, Clay, and the Bank war
Van Buren's victory over the Whigs
Polk and manifest destiny
Old Zach and the Michigander
Frank Pierce and Old Fuss and Feathers.
Buchanan and Bleeding Kansas
Lincoln and the sectional crisis
Lincoln and the war crisis
Grant and the liberal Republicans
The Hayes-Tilden disputed election
The triumph of "Boatman Jim" Garfield
The Cleveland-Blaine contest
Harrison, Cleveland, and the tariff
Cleveland's return to power
McKinley, Bryan, and free silver
The McKinley-Roosevelt triumph
Taft's big victory over Bryan
The high tide of progressivism : Wilson, Roosevelt, and Taft
Harding, nostrums, and normalcy.
Hoover, Smith, and the Catholic issue
Roosevelt, Hoover, and the Great Depression
Roosevelt and the New Deal
Roosevelt, Wilkie, and the war in Europe
Roosevelt's wartime mandate
The great Truman surprise
Another Eisenhower landslide
Kennedy and the New Frontier
Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
Nixon, Humphrey, and the Vietnam War
The triumph of an outsider : Jimmy Carter
Trivial pursuit : Bush vs. Dukakis
Clinton and the call for change.