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 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 One 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.