William E. Leuchtenburg, is the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Over the course of six decades, he taught at Columbia University, UNC-Chapel Hill, and, as a visiting professor, at Harvard, Cornell, Duke, William and Mary and other American universities, as well as at Oxford where he held the Harmsworth chair. He served as presidential elections analyst for NBC and as presidential inauguration consultant for CBS, PBS, and C-SPAN. Elected president of the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, and the Society of American Historians, he is the first recipient of the Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Award for Distinguished Writing in American History of Enduring Public Significance. He is the author of fifteen books, including The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-32, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940, and In the Shadow of FDR: From Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan.

• Preface to the New Edition


• Prologue


• 1. Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft


• 2. Woodrow Wilson


• 3. Intermezzo: Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover


• 4. Franklin Delano Roosevelt


• 5. Harry Truman


• 6. Dwight D. Eisenhower


• 7. John F. Kennedy


• 8. Lyndon B. Johnson


• 9. Richard Nixon


• 10. The President at Bay: Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter


• 11. Ronald Reagan


• 12. George H. W. Bush


• 13. Bill Clinton


• Bibliography