American Heritage: The Presidents

There are some things we cannot know about presidents until many years after they leave office -- what really went on behind the scenes and how great their leadership was. That is the mission of this remarkable book. American Heritage is known and trusted for its standard-bearing single-volume histories. Its editions on the American Civil War and World War II, edited by such distinguished scholars as James McPherson and Stephen Ambrose, are recognized classics. American Heritage The Presidents is a richly illustrated edition, with America's preeminent presidential historian Michael Beschloss as general editor. This book offers fresh and penetrating portraits of all the presidencies, as rendered by some of America's most distinguished scholars, including a look at the first part of the George W. Bush administration.

Michael Beschloss has been described by Newsweek as "the nation's leading presidential historian." He is the author of seven critically acclaimed books on American presidents, Beschloss is a frequent lecturer and regular commentator on PBS's The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer