Most books about the presidents are either biographies or political science tomes, hundreds of pages long. If they cover the full list of presidents, then they often devolve into lists of trivia. Execute the Office seeks to balance both halves of the creative nonfiction genre by writing succinct essays that are invested as much in lyrical writing and experimental forms as they are with factual accuracy.

Table of Contents Preamble (Introduction) The Virginia Reel (Washington) Reiteration (Adams) The Apologist (Jefferson) Paul Jennings Dreams of the Burning of Washington (Madison) The Eye of James Monroe (Monroe) Self-Portrait with Slave Ship (Quincy Adams) Death Song for Andrew Jackson (Jackson) State of Alarm (Van Buren) Time, Cut Short (Harrison) American Falls (Tyler) State of the Union (Polk) Antaeus (Taylor) 500 Black Ships (Fillmore) Diagnosis (Pierce) Joist (Buchanan) Three Sentences on Failure (Lincoln) Warp and Weft (Johnson) Crossing the Rapidan (Grant) Postcard Collection (Hayes) American Still Life Paintings, 1820-1900: Gallery 69A (Garfield) Smear Campaign (Arthur) Never Odd (Cleveland) A Brief Interlude in Which We Contemplate the Essential Unknowability of Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States, 1889-1893 (Harrison) Or Even (Cleveland) Assassin¿s Bullet (McKinley) bully (Roosevelt) Judgment (Taft) All Good Men (Wilson) The Smoke-Filled Room (Harding) Silence (Coolidge) Welcome Home, Mister President (Hoover) What the New Deal Did in Carroll County, Iowa (FDR) Infinity Room (Truman) Kansas, She Said, Is the Name of the Star (Eisenhower) I Ask My Father Where He Was When He Heard the News (Kennedy) Cato/Caro (Johnson) [expletive deleted] (Nixon) Gaffe (Ford) Pardon (Carter) Dissolve To (Reagan) Box Score (G. H. W. Bush) Letter from Oxford (Clinton) Evacuation Route (G. W. Bush) What They Said About Him (Obama) Nomenclature (Trump) Enfranchisement Last Dance Notes Appendix Acknowledgements