This revised edition of the first volume of the Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States begins with the first inaugural address of George Washington (1789) and concludes with the second inaugural address of William McKinley (1901). Outlining the life of a nation through its most famous speeches, United States presidential vision and policy is seen here through the addresses of the Presidents. Volume I includes the inaugural addresses of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Knox Polk, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, and William McKinley.

This revised edition of the second volume of the Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States begins with the first inaugural address of Theodore Roosevelt in 1905 and concludes with the January 21, 2013 address of President Barack Obama. Outlining the life of a nation through its most famous speeches, United States presidential vision and policy is seen here through the addresses of the Presidents. Volume II includes the inaugural addresses of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, William Jefferson Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Hussein Obama.