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Part Three. . .

[[underlined]] The President as Popular Tribune [[/underlined]]

By Robert C. Post, Editor,
Smithsonian Exposition Books

An enumeration of the changes to the tone of the Presidency wrought by Andrew Jackson and certain of his successors, with a coda on "the last Jacksonian," Andrew Johnson.

[[underlined]] Private Lives [[/underlined]]

By Margaret B. Klapthor,
Curator of Political History,
National Museum of History and Technology

A look at some day-to-day events in the White House, from the mundane to the melodramatic.

[[underlined]] His Superfluous Excellency [[/underlined]]

By Edwards Park, Board of Editors,

[[underlined]] Smithsonian [[/underlined]]

The evolution of the office of Vice President and its duties, official and unofficial.

Part Four. . .

[[underlined]] The Presidential Apotheosis [[/underlined]]

By Mark E. Neely, Jr., Director,
Louis A. Warren Lincoln Library and Museum,
Fort Wayne

A rising Lincoln scholar describes his Open Presidency and some of its consequences.

[[underlined]] Martyrdom [[/underlined]]

By Robert J. Donovan,
former Washington Bureau Chief,
[[underlined]] Los Angeles Times [[/underlined]], and Wilson
Center Fellow

An authority on assassinations considers the circumstances surrounding the murder of four Presidents, and attempts on the lives of several others.

[[underlined]] A President in Montgomery [[/underlined]]
By Michael L. Lawson and Frederick S. Voss

The office of the President of the Confederate States of America, and its occupant, Jefferson Davis.

Part Five. . .

[[underlined]] The President in the Age of the Politico [[/underlined]]
By Lewis L. Gould,
Professor of History,
University of Texas

The author of a new biography of William McKinley describes how the Presidency recovered in power and prestige from the nadir of the Grand administration to the turn of the century.