A crisis of his own contrivance : Andrew Jackson's break with John C. Calhoun / Daniel Feller
"I am president" : John Tyler, presidential succession, the crisis of legitimacy, and the defense of presidential power / Aaron Scott Crawford
Personal loss and Franklin Pierce's presidency / Michael F. Holt
Abraham Lincoln and the death of his son Willie / Michael Burlingame
"One long wilderness of despair" : Woodrow Wilson's stroke and the League of Nations / Thomas J. Knock
Calvin Coolidge : "when he went the power and the glory of the presidency went with him" / Amity Shlaes
The splendid deception of "Doctor" Roosevelt / Frank Costigliola
The Kennedy family through sickness and death / David Nasaw
Lyndon Johnson at home and abroad / Randall B. Woods
A depressed and self-destructive president : Richard Nixon in the White House / Jeremi Suri
Governing during a time of crisis : the Reagan presidency / Kiron K. Skinner
The Clintons : the politics of the personal / William Chafe.
