Encyclopedia of presidents

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William Howard Taft

twenty-seventh president of the United States
1989
Examines the life and career of the lawyer whose relatively unsuccessful presidency was followed by a happy term as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

Rutherford B. Hayes

nineteenth president of the United States
1989
Examines the life and career of the Civil War general and Ohio politician who became the nineteenth president of the United States.

Warren G. Harding

twenty-ninth president of the United States
1989
Examines the life and career of the Ohio newspaperman who became the twenty-ninth president of the United States.

Benjamin Harrison

twenty-third president of the United States
1989
Examines the military and political career of the only grandson of a president to become president himself.

Calvin Coolidge

thirtieth president of the United States
1988
Describes the early life, education, and political career of the president who earned the nickname "Silent Cal.".

Grover Cleveland

twenty-second and twenty-fourth president of the United States
1988
Follows the life of the minister's son who rose from being an honest city lawyer to serve two terms as American president.

James Buchanan

fifteenth president of the United States
1988
Describes the early life and political career of the man who served as president in the years just before the Civil War.

Chester A. Arthur

twenty-first president of the United States
1989
Traces the life of the young lawyer who rose up through New York's political machine to become the twenty-first president of the United States.

John Adams

America's 2nd President
2003
Details the coming of age, diplomatic and presidential career, private life, and legacy of America's second president.

Bill Clinton

America's 42nd president
2005
Presents an account of the life and career of William Jefferson Clinton, the forty-second president of the United States.

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