Defining the presidency: George Washington (1789-1797)
The natural aristocracy: John Adams (1797-1801)
Aristocratic progressivism: Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809)
Father of the constitution: James Madison (1809-1817)
Controlling the Americas: James Monroe (1817-1825)
A populist revolution: John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson (1825-1837)
A conservative division: Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, and John Tyler (1837-1845)
Manifest destiny: James K. Polk (1845-1849)
The last of the Whigs: Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore (1849-1853)
An inevitable collapse: Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan (1853-1861)
Emancipation: Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865)
Reconstruction halted: Andrew Johnson (1865-1869)
Corrupt bargains: Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877)
The lost presidents: Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, and Chester A. Arthur (1877-1885)
Popularity and political corruption: Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison(1885-1897)
A state of anarchy: William McKinley (1897-1901)
Natural American history: Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft (1901-1913)
The dawn of internationalism: Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921)
The conservative shift: Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover (1921-1933)
New ideas: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-1945)
Extreme solutions: Harry S. Truman (1945-1953)
The Cold War hero: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961)
Civil rights and human rights: John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson (1961-1969)
Thieves and liars: Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford (1969-1977)
Moralistic progressivism: Jimmy Carter (1977-1981)
Acting like a president: Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)
Crime and punishment: George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton (1989-2001)
Empire and archetype: George W. Bush and Barack Obama (2001-2017)
America's business: Donald Trump (2017-)
Conclusion: the limits of power.