Constitutional convention
Creating the presidency
Bringing the constitutional presidency to life : George Washington and John Adams
The triumph of Jeffersonianism
The age of Jackson
The presidency of Abraham Lincoln
The reaction against presidential power : Andrew Johnson to William McKinley
Progressive politics and executive power : the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson
The triumph of conservative republicanism
The consolidation of the modern presidency : Franklin D. Roosevelt to Dwight D. Eisenhower
Personalizing the presidency : John F. Kennedy to Jimmy Carter
A restoration of presidential power? Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush
Bill Clinton and the modern presidency
George W. Bush and the unilateral presidential power
Barack Obama and the dilemma of modern presidential leadership
The vice presidency.