AMERICAN PRESIDENTS: YEAR BY YEAR (3 Volumes)
By Lyle Nelson
M.E. Sharpe (2004)

Individually and collectively, the lives of America’s president have inspired literally thousands of books. Yet, until now, not one of them put the lives of all 42 in historical perspective and context – showing how their lives and careers overlapped, intersected and influenced each other. From George Washington’s birth through George W. Bush’s first year in office, The Presidents, Year by Year will trace and link the parallel lives of the presidents and the history of the nation, showing what a sitting president and all the contemporary living future and past presidents were doing one year at a time – in effect, side-by-side.

The year-by-year format juxtaposes major national events with each individual's road to the presidency. We can see, for example, what the young James K. Polk and the former president Thomas Jefferson were doing during the James Madison presidency and the War of 1812. During the four long and terrible years of the Civil War, we see that 14 past and future presidents were alive, some mere toddlers and others elder statesmen, with six future presidents old enough to bear arms in America's bloodiest conflict.

For nearly 50 years, journalist Lyle Nelson has been compiling the data for this book, mostly for the fun of it. He has read several hundred books about America’s presidents, making notes of what each was doing during every year of his life. Altogether, he has recorded some 10,000 events in the lives of the presidents. Nelson is a World War II veteran who spent more than 30 years as a journalist and columnist for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, during which he has had several "brushes" with former and future presidents.

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