Getting to know the U.S. presidents

Series

Pub. Date

[2004]

Physical Desc

32 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 25 cm.

Language

English

Description

An introduction to the life of George Washington, who proved himself a good military leader during the American Revolution and became the nation's first president.

2) James Madison: fourth president, 1809-1817

Author

Series

Pub. Date

[2004]

Physical Desc

32 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm.

Language

English

Description

An introduction to the life of James Madison, a man of poor health who could not fight in the Revolutionary War but whose ideas formed the core of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and who became the nation's fourth president.

3) James Monroe: fifth president, 1817-1825

Author

Series

Pub. Date

[2004]

Physical Desc

32 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm.

Language

English

Description

An introduction to the life of James Monroe, an influential patriot during the American Revolution who became the nation's fifth president and was subsequently reelected.

4) John Adams: second president, 1797-1801

Author

Series

Pub. Date

[2004]

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 25 cm.

Language

English

Description

An introduction to the life of John Adams, an influential patriot during the American Revolution who became the nation's first vice president and second president.

5) John Quincy Adams: sixth president, 1825-1829

Author

Venezia, Mike

6) Thomas Jefferson: third president, 1801-1809

Author

Venezia, Mike

7) Andrew Jackson: seventh president, 1829-1837

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2005.

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Language

English

Description

Mike Venezia once again uses his winning formula of combining humor with history to make learning fun. Each book in this series is an appealing mix of full-color historical images and photos, Mike's hilarious cartoon-style illustrations, and simple, factual text describing each person's path toward the nation's highest office. These biographies are peppered with humbling and funny anecdotes that bring out the humanity of each of these historical figures...

8) Andrew Johnson: seventeenth president, 1865-1869

Author

Series

Pub. Date

[2005]

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Language

English

9) Franklin Pierce: fourteenth president

Author

Venezia, Mike

10) James Buchanan: fifteenth president, 1857-1861

Author

Series

Pub. Date

[2005]

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.

Language

English

11) James K. Polk: eleventh president, 1845-1849

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2005.

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm.

Language

English

Description

A biography of President Polk, who greatly added to the territory of the United States especially during the Mexican War.

12) John Tyler: tenth president, 1841-1845

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2005.

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 25 cm.

Language

English

13) Martin Van Buren: eighth president, 1837- 1841

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2005.

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations (some color); color map, portraits ; 25 cm.

Language

English

Description

A biography of Martin Van Buren, eighth president of the United States.

14) Millard Fillmore: thirteenth president, 1850-1853

Author

Series

Pub. Date

[2005]

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.

Language

English

15) Ulysses S. Grant: eighteenth president, 1869-1877

Author

Series

Pub. Date

[2005]

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Language

English

16) William Henry Harrison: ninth president, 1841

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2005.

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 25 cm.

Language

English

17) Zachary Taylor: twelfth president, 1849-1850

Author

Venezia, Mike

18) Abraham Lincoln: sixteenth president, 1861-1865

Author

Series

Pub. Date

[2005]

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.

Language

English

19) Benjamin Harrison: twenty-third president, 1889-1893

Author

Series

Pub. Date

[2006]

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.

Language

English

20) Calvin Coolidge: thirtieth president, 1923-1929

Author

Venezia, Mike

21) Chester A. Arthur: twenty-first president, 1881-1885

Author

Venezia, Mike

22) Grover Cleveland: twenty-second and twenty-fourth president, 1885-1889, 1893-1897

Author

Venezia, Mike

23) Herbert Hoover: thirty-first president, 1929-1933

Author

Series

Pub. Date

[2007]

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm.

Language

English

Description

A brief biography of the thirty-first president of the United States, describing his career as mining engineer, businessman, and president during the Great Depression.

24) James A. Garfield: twentieth president, 1881

Author

Venezia, Mike

25) Rutherford B. Hayes: nineteenth president 1877-1881

Author

Series

Pub. Date

[2006]

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Language

English

26) Theodore Roosevelt: twenty-sixth president, 1901-1909

Author

Series

Pub. Date

[2007]

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Language

English

27) Warren G. Harding: twenty-ninth president, 1921-1923

Author

Venezia, Mike

28) William Howard Taft: twenty-seventh president, 1909-1913

Author

Series

Pub. Date

[2007]

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 25 cm.

Language

English

29) William McKinley: twenty-fifth president, 1897-1901

Author

Venezia, Mike

30) Bill Clinton: forty-second president, 1993-2001

Author

Series

Pub. Date

[2008]

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.

Language

English

31) Franklin D. Roosevelt: thirty-second president, 1933-1945

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2007.

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Language

English

Description

"Examines the life and career of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the thirty-second president of the United States."--From source other than the Library of Congress

32) George W. Bush: forty-third president, 2001- present

Author

Series

Pub. Date

[2008]

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 25 cm.

Language

English

33) Harry S. Truman: thirty-third president, 1945-1953

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2007.

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Language

English

Description

"Examines the life and career of Harry S. Truman, the thirty-third president of the United States."--From source other than the Library of Congress

34) Jimmy Carter: thirty-ninth president, 1977-1981

Author

Series

Pub. Date

[2008]

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm.

Language

English

35) John F. Kennedy: thirty-fifth president, 1961-1963

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2007.

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Language

English

Description

"Examines the life and career of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth president of the United States."--From source other than the Library of Congress

36) Lyndon B. Johnson: thirty-sixth president, 1963-1969

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2007.

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Language

English

Description

"Examines the life and career of Lyndon B. Johnson, the thirty-sixth president of the United States."--From source other than the Library of Congress

37) Richard M. Nixon: thirty-seventh president, 1969-1974

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2007.

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Language

English

Description