Episode list

American political dynasties: John Quincy Adams; Benjamin Harrison; Franklin D. Roosevelt; John F. Kennedy.

John Tyler; Millard Fillmore; Andrew Johnson; Chester Arthur; Harry Truman.

The failures of four bipartisan presidents -- John Adams, Zachary Taylor, Rutherford B. Hayes and Jimmy Carter.

The difference between being a successful politician and a successful president. Narrator: Hugh Sidey.

Limiting the federal government's power; Thomas Jefferson; Calvin Coolidge; Herbert Hoover; Ronald Reagan.

Limiting the federal government's power; James Monroe; William McKinley; Woodrow Wilson; George Bush.

Military men who would later serve in the Oval Office, including George Washington, William Henry Harrison, Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight Eisenhower.

The performances of presidents elected as the lesser of two evils, including Franklin Pierce, James Garfield, Warren G. Harding and Gerald Ford.

Presidents who expanded, and even exceeded, the powers of their office, including Andrew Jackson, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt and Richard Nixon.

Examining the flexible system of checks and balances through presidencies of James Madison, James Polk, William Howard Taft and William Jefferson Clinton.