Our country's presidents
By: Ann Bausum ; with a foreword by President George W. Bush
Edition: Rev. and expanded ed.
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780792293293; 9780792293309
Subjects: Presidents; Juvenile literature; Biography; History
Description: Text and color photos and illustrations profile each of the American presidents, from George Washington to George W. Bush, and examine various facets of the presidency.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-206) and index.

Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 9.2 7.
Table of contents: title: Presidency and how it grew --; title: George Washington --; title: John Adams --; title: White house: the building and its history --; title: Thomas Jefferson --; title: James Madison --; title: Powers of the president: the executive branch in government --; title: James Monroe --; title: John Quincy Adams --; title: Andrew Jackson --; title: From sea to shining sea --; title: Martin Van Buren --; title: William Henry Harrison --; title: John Tyler --; title: The vice presidents: leaders just a heartbeat away --; title: James K. Polk --; title: Presidential campaigns: a blend of party politics and hard work --; title: Zachary Taylor --; title: Millard Fillmore --; title: Franklin Pierce --; title: James Buchanan --; title: New birth of freedom --; title: Abraham Lincoln --; title: Andrew Johnson --; title: U.S. political parties : the two-party system --; title: Ulysses S. Grant --; title: Rutherford B. Hayes --; title: Presidential landmarks: from log cabins to libraries --; title: James A. Garfield --; title: Chester A. Arthur --; title: Grover Cleveland --; title: Presidential facts and comparisons: a look at the stats --; title: Benjamin Harrison --; title: America takes center stage --; title: William McKinley --; title: Theodore Roosevelt --; title: Kids in the White House: at home in the spotlight --; title: William Howard Taft --; title: Woodrow Wilson --; title: Presidents at war: serving as the commander in chief --; title: Warren G. Harding --; title: Calvin Coolidge --; title: Herbert Hoover --; title: Seeking stability in the atomic age --; title: Franklin D. Roosevelt --; title: First ladies: partners, hostesses, and crusaders --; title: Harry S. Trumen --; title: Dwight D. Eisenhower --; title: John F. Kennedy --; title: Presidents who died in office: the mysterious twenty-year curse --; title: Lyndon B. Johnson --; title: Richard M. Nixon --; title: Gerald R. Ford --; title: Electoral college: gatekeepers of the presidency --; title: Jimmy Carter --; title: Footprints on the global frontier --; title: Ronald Reagan --; title: George Bush -- In the president's shadow: security, the media, and presidential perks --; title: William Jefferson Clinton --; title: Election day: landslides, upsets, and contested results --; title: George W. Bush --; title: Former presidents: serving as elder statesmen --; title: Chart of presidential election results.