Akashic Books announces a provocative new series of books with early writings from United States presidents, starting with George Washington and moving chronologically forward in time. Each book will present an introduction by a talented and highly acclaimed contemporary writer. This series will be unlike any other presidential commentaries in print, and will be characterized by a critical viewpoint that will provide a counterbalance to the overly reverent and conservative analyses that invariably accompany presidential writings. This September, the series will launch with the first three titles.

Visionary author Percival Everett will take an atheist's-eye-view of the little-known "Jefferson Bible," the third President's response to the King James Bible.

Percival Everett's novel Erasure won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and his most recent, A History of the African-American People [Proposed] By Strom Thurmond, as told to Percival Everett and James Kincaid [A Novel] ruffled many Confederate feathers.