The American Presidents is a 25-book series with 25 released primary works first released in 2002 with contributions by James MacGregor Burns, Susan Dunn, Garry Wills, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist and Historian Garry Wills, Gary Hart, Sean Wilentz, Ted Widmer, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Gail Collins, Gary May, John Seigenthaler, John S.D. Eisenhower, Paul Finkelman, Michael F. Holt, Annette Gordon-Reed, Hans L. Trefousse, Ira Rutkow, Henry F. Graff, Charles W. Calhoun, Kevin Phillips, Louis Auchincloss, Jeffrey Rosen, H.W. Brands, William E. Leuchtenburg, Alan Brinkley, Charles Peters, Julian E. Zelizer, and Jacob Weisberg.