1. "A republic, if you can keep it"
2. The foundational presidency: George Washington to John Quincy Adams
3. Democratization to decline/crisis to enlargement: Andrew Jackson to Abraham Lincoln
4. Reaction and shrinking/the world stage: Andrew Johnson to Woodrow Wilson
5. Republicanization and retreat/birth of the modern: Warren Harding to FDR
6. The cold war/heroic presidency: Harry S. Truman to John F. Kennedy
7. Great society to demonization/imperial to imperiled: Lyndon B. Johnson to Ronald Reagan
8. The post cold war presidency: George Bush and Bill Clinton
9. Conclusion: The presidency in the new millenium.
