Includes index.

Part 1 Undisputed Champions 1 -- 1 Setting the Presidential Precedence with George Washington 3 -- 2 I've Been Thinkin' About Abraham Lincoln 15 -- 3 F(our) D(ecisive) R(e-elections) 27 -- 4 Renaissance President: Thomas Jefferson 39 -- Part 2 Heavyweights 53 -- 5 Give 'Em Hell: Harry S. Truman 55 -- 6 Teddy Roosevelt: Truly One of a Kind 71 -- 7 Staunchly Sometimes Progressive: Woodrow Wilson 87 -- 8 You Couldn't Make Up a Character Quite Like Andrew Jackson 99 -- 9 Formidable Forgotten: James K. Polk 113 -- 10 John Adams, Second-Chair Founding Father 123 -- Part 3 Middleweights 137 -- 11 Cleveland Rocks the White House: Grover Cleveland 139 -- 12 Like Forefather, Like Son: John Quincy Adams 149 -- 13 Win Two Terms for the Gipper: Ronald Reagan 159 -- 14 Bigger They Are, the Harder They Fall: Lyndon Johnson 173 -- 15 Any Which Way to the White House: Rutherford B. Hayes 187 -- 16 If I Could Be Like Ike: Dwight David Eisenhower 199 -- 17 Has Anyone Seen My Old Friend William (McKinley)? 213 -- Part 4 Club Fighters 223 -- 18 That Ole' Virginia Dynasty: James Madison and James Monroe 225 -- 19 Single Days Doom Their Terms: Gerald Ford and Herbert Hoover 241 -- 20 Peanut Farmer and Jelly Belly: Jimmy Carter and William Howard Taft 257 -- 21 Death Does Its Part: John Tyler and Millard Fillmore 273 -- 22 A Couple of Dandies: Chester A. Arthur and Martin Van Buren 287 -- Part 5 Tomato Cans, Never Coulda' Been Contenders, and Still in Training 301 -- 23 Dull-Namic Duo: Benjamin Harrison and Calvin Coolidge 303 -- 24 Back-to-Back Slacks: Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan 317 -- 25 With Friends Like These: Warren G. Harding and Ulysses S. Grant 331 -- 26 Trouble at the Top: Andrew Johnson and Richard Nixon 347 -- 27 What We'll Never Know: William Henry Harrison and John F. Kennedy 367 -- 28 What Might Have Been: James Garfield and Zachary Taylor 383 -- 29 Too Soon to Know: George Bush and Bill Clinton 399.