The first volume of Presidential Chronicles tells the life stories of the following five Presidents who helped define the role of the nation's chief executive:
George Washington
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
James Monroe
Fisher captures the essence of the founding era through these lives that spanned the military, legislative, diplomatic, and ultimately executive roles that helped define the start of the American experiment. He provides a first-person perspective to the pre-revolutionary era, the colonial rebellion, the war for independence, the diplomatic efforts abroad, and the challenges of starting a new nation based on democratic principles - something unlike anything the world had ever seen before. He explores the inter-connected nature of the lives of these founding leaders - relationships and experiences that were essential to the dawn of the Republic, but also broke down over the different visions they brought to bear on how to shape the new nation they helped to birth.