Presidents


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  • Mr. President : A Book of U.S. Presidents (Scholastic Biography) by George Sullivan
  • Presidents by James Barber
  • So You Want to be President? by Judith St. George
  • Scholastic Encyclopedia of the Presidents and Their Times by David Rubel
  • In Defense of Liberty: The Story of America's Bill of Rights by Russell Freedman
  • The New Nation by Joy Hakim

1789-1797

  • George Washington
    • George Washington's Breakfast by Jean Fritz
    • George Washington and the Founding of a Nation
    • The American Revolution: How We Fought the War of Independence by Edward Dolan
    • Who Were the Founding Fathers? Two Hundred Years of Reinventing American History by Steve Jaffe
    • A Picture Book of George Washington by David Adler
    • George Washington: A Picture Book Biography by James Gildin
    • Washington by William Jacobs
    • George Washington: A Photo-Illustrated Biography
    • Martha Washington: First Lady of the Land by La Vere Anderson
    • Martha Washington by Joan Marsh
    • The American Revolution: "Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death?" by Deborah Kent
    • George and Martha Washington at Home in New York by Beatrice Siegel



1797-1801

  • John Adams
    • John Adams by Marlene Brill
    • John Adams by Frank Dwyer
    • Adams: 2nd President of the United States by Rebecca Stefoff
    • The Real Patriots of the American Revolution by Robert Young
    • From Colonies to Country by Joy Hakim
    • The American Revolution: "Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death?" by Deborah Kent
    • The Revolutionaries by Time-Life Books
    • Partner in Revolution: Abigail Adams by Clare Hodgson Meeker
    • Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution by Natalie Bober
    • Abigail Adams: Women's Rights Advocate by Angela Osborne



1801-1809

  • Thomas Jefferson
    • A Picture Book of Thomas Jefferson by David A. Adler
    • Thomas Jefferson: Father of Our Democracy by David Adler
    • Thomas Jefferson: Author, Inventor, President by Carol Greene
    • The Jefferson Way by Jeffrey Morris
    • Thomas Jefferson by Manuel Komroff
    • Monticello by Norman Richards
    • Our Declaration of Independence by Jay Schleifer


1809-1817

  • James Madison
    • The Great Little Madison by Jean Fritz
    • James Madison: Fourth President of the United States by Susan Clinton
    • James Madison by J. Perry Leavell
    • Birth of the Republic by Alden R. Carter
    • A Nation is Born: Rebellion and Independence in America by Richard Steins


1817-1825

  • James Monroe
    • James Monroe: Fifth President of the United States by Christine Fitz-Gerald
    • James Monroe by Charles Wetzel
    • Days of Slavery: A History of Black People in America 1619-1863 by Stuart Kallen
    • The New Nation by Joy Hakim
    • The Conquest of the West: A Sourcebook on the American West by Carter Smith

 

 

1825-1829

  • John Quincy Adams
    • Young John Quincy by Cheryl Harness
    • John Quincy Adams: 6th President of the United States by Miriam
    • Greenblatt
    • John Quincy Adams by Zachary Kent
    • Fireworks, Picnics, and Flags: The Story of the Fourth of July Symbols by James Cross Giblin
    • Scholastic Encyclopedia of the Presidents and Their Times by David Rubel
    • The Young United States, 1783 to 1830 by Edwin Tunis


1829-1837

  • Andrew Jackson
    • Andrew Jackson by Steve Potts
    • Andrew Jackson by Karen Judson
    • Andrew Jackson and his America by Milton Metzer
    • Andrew Jackson by Alice Osinski
    • The Trail of Tears: The Cherokee Journey from Home by Marlene Brill
    • The War of 1812: Second Fight for Independence by Alden Carter

 

1837-1841

  • Martin Van Buren



1841

  • William Henry Harrison

 

1841-1845

  • John Tyler

 

 

1845-1849

  • James K. Polk
    • James K. Polk: Encyclopedia of Presidents by Dee Lillegard

 

1849-1850

  • Zachary Taylor

 

1850-1853

  • Millard Fillmore


1853-1857

  • Franklin Pierce


1857-1861

  • James Buchanan


1861-1865

  • Abraham Lincoln
    • Lincoln; A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
    • Commander-in-Chief by Marrin Albert
    • Abraham Lincoln by Ingri D'Aulaire
    • Honest Abe by Edith Kunhardt
    • Abraham Lincoln: Sixteenth President of the United States
    • Lincoln:In His Own Words by Milton Meltzer
    • The Underground Railroad by Raymond Bial
    • The Emancipation Proclamation by Brendan January
    • The Story of Ford's Theater and the Death of Lincoln by Zachary Kent
    • The Gettysburg Address by Michael McCurdy
    • The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo by Tom Feelings
    • Forever Free: From the Emancipation Proclamation to the Civil Rights Bill of 1875
    • Voices from the Civil War: A Documentary History of the Great American Conflict
    • 1865-1869 Andrew Johnson & Eliza McCardle Johnson
    • Andrew Johnson: Rebuilding the Union by Cathy Dubowski
    • Andrew Johnson by Zachary Kent
    • Andrew Johnson: 17th President of the United States by Rita Stevens
    • The Alaska Purchase by Daniel Cohen
    • Land Pacts by Susan Gold
    • Reconstruction and Reform by Joy Hakim

 

1865-1869

  • Andrew Johnson

 

 

1869-1877

  • Ulysesses S. Grant
    • Ulysses S. Grant: Eighteenth President of the United States by Zachary Kent
    • Unconditional Surrender: U.S. Grant and the Civil War by Albert Marrin
    • Ulysses S. Grant and the Strategy of Victory by Laura Rickarby
    • One Nation Again: A Sourcebook on the Civil War by Carter Smith
    • War, Terrible War by Joy Hakim
    • Shiloh by Time-Life books



1877-1881

  • Rutherford Birchard Hayes



1881

  • James A. Garfield




1881-1885

  • Chester Alan Arthur


1885-1889
1893-1897

  • Grover Cleveland
    • Grover Cleveland: 22nd and 24th President of the United States by David Collins
    • Grover Cleveland by Zachary Kent
    • Government and Politics by John Havents
    • The Presidency of the United States by Karen Judson


1889-1893

  • Benjamin Harrison



1897-1901

  • William McKinley


1901-1909

  • Theodore Roosevelt
    • Rough Riding Reformer: Theodore Roosevelt by Gary Blackwood
    • Theodore Roosevelt:A Photo-Illustrated Biography by Steve Potts
    • Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt! by Jean Fritz
    • Theodore Roosevelt and His America by Milton Meltzer
    • Theodore Roosevelt Takes Charge by Nancy Whitelaw
    • You are the President by Nathan Aasent
    • War, Peace, and All That Jazz by Joy Hakim
    • A Multicultural Portrait of Labor in America by Judith Woodburn



1909-1913

  • William H. Taft

 

1913-1921

  • Woodrow Wilson
    • Woodrow Wilson by Perry Leavell
    • Woodrow Wilson: Twenty-Eighth President of the United States by Alice Osinski
    • Woodrow Wilson: Visionary for Peace by James Rogers
    • Edith Wilson by James GiblinWorld War I by Tom McGowen
    • World War I: "The War to End Wars." by Zachary Kent
    • A Multicultural Portrait of World War I by Michael Uschan





1921-1923

  • Warren G. Harding



1923-1929

  • Calvin Coolidge



1929-1933

  • Herbert Hoover
    • The World of Young Herbert Hoover by Susanne Hilton
    • Herbert Hoover by Susan Clinton
    • Black Tuesday: The Stock Market Crash of 1929 by Barbara Feinberg
    • War, Peace, and All That Jazz by Joy Hakim
    • Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression by Milton Meltzer
    • Hardship and Hope: America and the Great Depression by Victoria Sherrow




1933-1945

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
    • Franklin D. Roosevelt: Thirty-Second President of the United States by Alice Osinski
    • Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Photo-Illustrated Biography by Steve Potts
    • Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Russell Freedman
    • Franklin D. Roosevelt: U.S. President by Don Nardo
    • Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Four-Term President by Michael Schuman
    • The Home Front by Conrad Stein
    • The Children of the Topaz:The Story of a Japanese-American Internment
    • Camp by Michael Tunnell
    • The New Deal by Gail Steward
    • Air Raid-Pearl Harbor: The Story of December 7, 1941 by Theodore Taylor

 

1945-1953

  • Harry S. Truman
    • Harry S. Truman; Encyclopedia of Presidents by Jim Hargrove
    • The buck Stops Here by Morrie GreenbergHarry S. Truman: Thirty-Third
    • President of the United States by Jim Hargrove
    • V Is For Victory by Kathleen Krull
    • The Military History of the United States: World War II:The Pacific War by Christopher Chant

 

1953-1961

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
    • Eisenhower: Turning the World Toward Peace by Harold Stassen
    • Dwight D. Eisenhower by Jim Hargrove
    • Dwight D. Eisenhower by Peter Sandberg
    • 1950's by Margaret Sharman
    • The Postwar years: The Cold War and the Atomic Age (1950-1959) by Richard Steis
    • Joseph McCarthy: The Misuse of Political Power by Daniel Cohen
    • World War II in Europe: "America Goes to War."

 

1961-1963

  • John F. Kennedy
    • A Picture Book of John F. Kennedy by David A. Adler
    • John F. Kennedy: Photo-Illustrated Biography by Steve Potts
    • A Twilight Struggle: The Life of John Fitzgerald Kennedy by Barbara Harrison
    • John F. Kennedy: Thirty-Fifth President of the United States by Zachary Kent
    • John F. Kennedy by Marta Randall
    • All the People by Joy Hakim
    • The Civil Rights Movement in America: From 1865 to the Present by Patricia McKissack
    • The Civil Rights Movement by Charles Patterson




1963-1969

  • Lyndon B. Johnson
    • Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro
    • Lydon Baines Johnson by Dennis Eskow
    • Lyndon B. Johnson: 36th President of the United States by Lucille Falkof
    • Lyndon B. Johnson by Jim Hargrove
    • The Nation in Turmoil: Civil Rights and the Vietnam War (1960-1973)
    • The Story of the Great Society by Leila Foster
    • Free at Last: A History of the Civil Rights Movement and Those Who Died in the Struggle by Sara Bullard
    • America and Vietnam:The Elephant and the Tiger by Albert Marrin

 

1969-1974

  • Richard M. Nixon
    • Richard M. Nixon: The Thirty-Second President by Jim Hargrove
    • Richard Nixon: Thirty-Seventh President of the United States by Dee Lillegard
    • Richard M. Nixon, President by Sallie Randolph
    • The Story of Watergate by Jim Hargrove
    • You Are the Senator by Nathan Aaseng
    • United States v. Nixon: Watergate and the President by D. J. Herda
    • A Multicultural Portrait of Vietnam War by David Wright


1974-1977

  • Gerald R. Ford


1977-1981

  • Jimmy Carter
    • Jimmy Carter: Beyond the Presidency by Mellonee Carrigan
    • The Carters by Cass Sandak
    • Jimmy Carter on the Road to Peace by Caroline Lazo
    • James Carter by Linda Wade
    • People of Peace by Rose Blue
    • 1970's by Clint Twist


1981-1989

  • Ronald Reagan
    • Ronald Reagan by Renee Schwartzbert
    • Ronald Reagan by George Sullivan
    • The President Has Been Shot: True Stories of the Attacks on Ten U.S. Presidents by Rebecca Jones
    • Affirmative Action by A. E. Sadler
    • The Iran Hostage Crisis by R. Conrad Stein
    • What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era by Peggy Noonan

 

1989-1993

  • George Bush
    • George Bush: An Intimate Portrait by Fitzhugh Green
    • The Bush by Cass R. Sandak
    • George Bush by Zachary Kent
    • George Bush by William Pembertson
    • 1980's by Clint Twist
    • The Persian Gulf War: "The Mother of All Battles." by Zachary Kent

 

1993-2001

  • Bill Clinton
    • Bill Clinton: Our Forty-Second President by Robert Cwiklik
    • Bill Clinton and His Presidency by Elaine Landau
    • William Jefferson Clinton by Zachary Kent
    • Scholastic Encyclopedia of the Presidents and Their Times by David Rubel
    • The Palestinian-Israeli Accord by Phyllis Corzine


2001

  • George W. Bush








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